This article first appeared in the July 2022 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  It was a sweltering 105°F outside of Tombstone, Arizona, as we headed east toward the Great Divide Mountain Bike ...

This article first appeared in the May 2016 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. “Kautokeino? Nei! Nei!” shouted the blue and red gákti-clad Sámi woman as we pointed to the head of Ofot ...

“Well, now I can say I’ve done it,” he said as he squeezed out of the borrowed, narrow one-person tent. At age 63, it was my dad’s first time camping ...

This article first appeared in the June 2016 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. It was the end of the very first day of our bike journey across the U. S., and all ...

Late on a Thursday night at National Geographic’s headquarters in Washington, DC, the fourth floor was dark but for a few dimly lit desks. There a handful of employees in ...

The road into Bend was the icing on the cake. My eyes were sunken from exhaustion, my legs felt like lead, and I had a half-empty pizza box strapped to ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2021 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine. Click here to join and receive a  year subscription. At first, the cancellations seemed like they might ...

About a year ago, I found myself once again lying in bed, my bandaged leg propped up on a wall of pillows. It was my second ACL reconstruction in two ...

This story originally appeared in the May 2020 issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine.  On May 12, 1993, five strangers gathered at my home in Virginia to begin a cross-country bicycle tour. ...

Of all the things I’ve hoped to achieve in my lifetime, cycling across the country was not one of them. Yet I find myself here with the pleasant memory of ...