September 21, 2026
When I was in my senior year of college, I decided to write an undergraduate research thesis about my mom’s family. My degree was a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, very much in the followyourheart territory of the…
August 19, 2026
I met the Devil in Bolivia. He’s easy to spot—a 4foot tall, seated, completely scarlet creature with surprisedlooking bulging eyes, puffy cheeks, and large black horns. Oh, and did I mention the enormous phallus…
August 19, 2026
“That’s weird.” Sometimes I think I’m too open with the details of my life. Perhaps it would be better for me to be more reserved, especially with strangers. There’s nothing worse than opening up to someone and feeling…
August 14, 2026
I owe you all a longoverdue update on what Carlos and I have been doing in South America. On July 23, a couple days after our last blog entries, we rode into Oyón, Perú. It was our first “check point” of the Perú Great…
July 22, 2026
“I think my least favorite activity is pedaling up a hill on a bicycle”. Jakob from Germany sat across from me at the only Indian restaurant in Huaraz (not half bad!) and was leaving town early the next day to trek on…
July 21, 2026
It’s hard to be the slow one in a world that does not honor slowness. Six years ago, the first day I got my bike Kali, there was a Taco Tuesday evening ride to Springdale and I was so excited about my brand new shiny…
July 19, 2026
Time is a funny thing. While holed up in La Union waiting to feel better, Carlos and I decided to go through some of our digital spaces and clean up. I discovered that my messages were taking up almost 50 GB of space on…
July 10, 2026
So many names in this region begin with that prefix. From my rudimentary internet research it seems that while many unrelated Quechua words begin with that “wa” sound, they were all transliterated into Spanish using the…
July 9, 2026
I realize I am not posting chronologically, and it’s because I don’t always process my life chronologically. Perhaps more on that later. Getting ourselves and our bicycles to Perú was stressful. We sort of preemptively…
July 8, 2026
I write to you from a cozy, comfortable cafe in Huaraz, listening to the Spanish commentary and accompanying cheers from cafe guests on the World Cup game between Egypt and Argentina. We’re one week into our three month…
July 4, 2026
Okay everyone, I did it. I made a dumb little website (with Claude AI do devs need to disclose that they use AI?) that doesn't do very much at all, and now it can be our private blog while Carlos and I are on the road.…