June 3 - 5, 2016 There’s inevitably that moment that occurs, when you’re pretty sure you’ve done something dumb, and that moment stamps your hunch emphatically as true. This is usually reserved for kids since hopefully as adults we have evolved past this and refined...
Namibia by Bike, Hitch, Taxi, Boat…
June 2, 2016 My plan today to pedal into Namibia. It seemed like a fairly easy task. There is a 30 mile stretch of perfectly paved road, however, that cuts through Chobe National Park, one of the wildest places in Africa (as I wrote about yesterday). To be...
CHOBE! Pt. 2: Ah, So There Are the Elephants…
June 1, 2016 I load on a small boat with 6 other people at 3pm for the second half of the Chobe exploration. We embark on a water safari and I hope that I will see some of these elephants that I hear are everywhere. The sun is still high in the sky and the Chobe River...
CHOBE! Pt. 1: And the Lion Goes “Err”
June 1, 2016 Today I got picked up in an open air Landcruiser at 545 a.m. for the 6 a.m. game drive in Chobe National Park. Chobe is Botswana’s 1st national park and is also one of the most biologically diverse. It boasts one of the most highly concentrated elephant...
Why Are You in Botswana?
May 30 - 31, 2016 This is the question my friend Sara asks me via Whatsapp after I send a test text to her with my new Botswana SIM card. I’ll come back to this in a bit. I leave Ben’s house at 8a to catch the 9a bus. It is essentially a 10 mile urban safari through...
Get Dressed F%#ker, We’re Going on an Adventure
May 24 - 28, 2016 Everyone needs a friend who will call you up and say, "Get dressed fucker, we're going on adventure". This is the meme that I received a few months ago and again on the morning of my flight. I have amazing friends. I have been given another,...
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The World Spins By is an intimate journey of loss, curiosity, and love—recounted one pedal stroke at a time along Jerry’s two-year bicycle journey back to himself.




