We live in a red state now. I try to understand why we voted to try to take away medical coverage for people like me, with pre-existing conditions. At the same time we voted for medical marijuana and increasing the minimum wage and an independent commission to redrawn districts and hopefully reduce gerrymandering. I try to …
Author Archives: Luke
On the road
2013 was the year I’ve spent more time than ever accumulating miles and exploring new roads. I put roughly 30,000 miles on my car Sydney (aka Carlos Danger). I biked roughly 2100 miles (not that impressive compared to 2012’s total of over 3700 miles). I slept in 20 different states over the course of the …
Lest We Forget: Louisville 2013
Lest we forget adventures from a year ago. A Friday off of work to drive on frozen interstates to tour distilleries in the hills of Kentucky. Or staying out late at the hotel bar to hang with people we’ve only met on the internet. And waking up early the next morning to walk through fresh …
Polebridge, MT
There is this unincorporated town in Montana, on the far side of Glacier National Park, called Polebridge, where you can get the best huckleberry bearclaws on earth. You have to drive on dirt roads for 20 miles to get there. But as many locals will tell you, arrive early before the pastries are gone and …
It doesn’t have to be perfect
I’ve missed writing over the past 5 months. I’ve missed creating things, telling stories with words and pictures, doing something a little more constructive with nights at home. Lately I’ve been in that place where everything I want to write about doesn’t seem good enough, so ideas and stories and adventures get filed away which …
That was the best surgery yet
This is what was inside me for the past two years: Getting blood drawn before even checking into surgery, the lab tech missed the vein in my arm. Of course. I’ve lost count how many times that’s happened to me now. And so after trying to wiggle things around while I started getting pale, he …
Boston Marathon Thoughts
On Monday, I was already thinking about Patriots’ Day in Boston, and following the marathon via live feeds/commentary, and of course Twitter. I saw the elite men’s race from my desk at work, and reminisced about the time I witnessed it first hand 3 years ago. Three years ago, Ian and I ran the BAA 5k the …
A Year Ago
A year ago today, we sit on the bank of a river and drink beer from the trunk of our rental car as shadows start to fill the valley. And water runs vertically and horizontally, and I’m not sure which is better. Two years ago today, I learned about Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and what it …
Better than the Super Bowl
Here’s me eating a free maple bacon doughnut before the Juniors Cyclocross World Championship race. I wish the weekend didn’t end so fast. I took over 1100 pictures and I’m traveling for work and away from home, so it’ll take me awhile to sort through them all. Here’s Sven:
It snowed every day last week. I went skiing three times. There is no snow anymore. It rained in buckets today. There was a thunderstorm last night. I went for a bike ride in shorts and didn’t freeze. But I did get wet. Very wet. There was a man walking on 66th St. who asked, …