Archive for January, 2010
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010As it turns out, carving out the time to work while traveling is a LOT harder than I ever imagined. Or, rather, it’s a lot harder to prioritize my time so that jewelry-making gets an equal share (it’s just so easy for the studio time to get squeezed out, in favor of cycling and exploring [...]
Bisbeee, AZ to Deming, NM (and some road reports)
Friday, January 29th, 2010After several wonderful days of exploring Bisbee and all it’s hidden gems (while also taking shelter from the series of wind, rain and snow storms that blew through), we pushed off again. We were rested and ready to conquer the Continental Divide!
From Bisbee, we rolled downhill to Douglas, which sits right on the border [...]
Bisbee and the Bike Brothel
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Keep Bisbee Weird
“Have ya’ll ever been to Bisbee?” Ken Wallace asks us with his slight southern accent. We tell him no. “Well, it’s like Mayberry on acid.”
As if on cue, one of Ken’s neighbors pulls up in a dirty white pickup with an assortment of scrap metal or appliances stacked haphazardly [...]
Suspending disbelief
Friday, January 22nd, 2010If you’re lucky, you get to take a class from an amazing teacher while you’re in school. If you’re very lucky, you are forever changed by your interactions with such a teacher. I have had two such teachers in my lifetime, in 5th grade and in high school. (And, now, to some [...]
Toast to Tucson
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010We had a wonderful time in Tucson and had the opportunity to meet some great people. We were about 22 miles away when we first met our first host, Mike McKisson, who rode into town with us. The bicycle transformed his life. He got healthy, found a new passion in cycling, which [...]
PathLessPedaled vs. Sonoran Hotdog
Saturday, January 16th, 2010We spent our last day with our host Mike and decided to hit up El Guero Canelo for the fabled Sonoran Hotdog. We have to be admit, that this is our second time getting one of these bacon wrapped lovelies. Mike took us to the original location in South Tucson but it was [...]
Video Highlight - Mike McKisson
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Playing with some of the features on UStream, I discovered that you can make a “highlight” or video excerpt. For those that just want to cut to the chase, here’s the excerpt with our interview with Mike McKisson our host in Tucson whose life has been transformed by the bicycle and who is also [...]
Slideshow Presentation at BICAS! on 01/16 at 6:30pm
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010We are giving a slideshow presentation at BICAS (Bicycle Inter-community Action and Salvage) this Saturday! If you are in, near or around Tucson you should come out! The space itself is vibrant and alive with lots of bike art and bicycle lovers. Their mission is: “Through advocacy and recycling of the bicycle, [...]
Our Tucson Broadcast
Sunday, January 10th, 2010Thank you everyone who joined us tonight for our live broadcast from Tucson, Arizona. We had a lot of fun and really hope to have more guests on the show with us. In case you missed it, you can watch it here… (ignore the first minute or so of us trying to figure [...]
Our Tour de Tucson
Saturday, January 9th, 2010We rode the streets of Tucson today with our host Mike, who showed us the bikey landmarks of the city. Here were some of the highlights.
We visited BICAS, a great non-profit bike organization with earn-a-bike programs, bike classes and endless crates of parts. When we stopped by the place was hopping [...]
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