April 11, 2017 It was 2 am. I had been riding around in not one but two different taxis for nearly 3 hours since I landed in Kunming. I just wanted to find my hotel. This, on the tail end of 2 days of the worst food poisoning in my life prior to leaving Nepal (and...
…I woke up, 3 weeks later, in Chiang Mai. It was almost like being home. Normalcy. No place to get to, nothing pressing to do. Just…be. It is the longest that I have spent in any one place since I left Colorado and began my tour in Africa back in May 2016. Wow...May...
March 1, 2017 Bad news comes in 3’s. This was my day and it was easily the single best day that I have had in Thailand. I was back. I would do it again without hesitation. A last second check of the map at 6am as I was drinking a soy milk and eating 4 yogurts and 3...
Getting on a plane in India after 2 months and landing in Thailand was like an alcoholic leaving an AA meeting and going straight to Mardi Gras. Overload. The food. The conveniences. The FOOD! “Thai Suicide” is what my friend Taylor calls it, after recently cycling...
2/2/17 – 2/6/17 Be weary of any Indian who says "just a little up". It was getting dark. We had battled valiantly through 7 hours and 80km of war, including 6k feet of climbing on an endless road that seemingly had a series of bombs dropped on it before a bull dozer...
1/22/17-1/31/17 Racing daylight, I rodeo’d my bicycle down the last few kilometers of broken road through the canyons in Arunachal Pradesh. The road was littered with loose, fist sized rocks, swimming in ankle deep sand. Below me once again lay the flats of Assam and...
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.