“You’re a vegetarian? You’re gonna starve,” nonchalantly quipped my friend Ellen. She is an American from Ohio who traveled through this region of Eastern Tibet for a year by bike in 2011 and has been calling Shanghai home ever since. I came across her blog in early...
May 25-27, 2017 “There is a trekking trail that goes through this region named Nyempo Jurtse. I don’t know if we can cycle it. Worst case, if the trail ends, we just push our bikes over the pass. It’s only about 1,000 vertical feet. We’ll need to pack food for 3...
May 10 - 23, 2017 “Into the great wide open Under them skies of blue Out in the great wide open A rebel without a clue” Tom Petty I have not seen a shower (or running water), a mirror, a hotel, or even a tree in nearly 2 weeks. I have subsisted almost entirely on...
May 7 – 9, 2017 "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson (…but sometimes that path or trail…is a yak track.)...
April 27 – May 6, 2017 Nobody said a word. Nobody complained and nobody hung their head. No profanity was uttered (at least audibly). We occasionally looked at one another, if only for a check in, but then solemnly just marched on. This is the beauty of being with...
April 19 – 26, 2017 “Tah-shi de-leeeeh!!!” belts out the Tibetan man on his motorcycle, lumbering down the broken, muddy road of a 15k ft mountain pass in the Amdo Region of Eastern Tibet, his wife and child clinging on precariously behind him. “Tah-shi...
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.