10/25 – 10/27 In a place where I should fit in the most seamlessly, I feel the most out of place. I cannot breathe. I’m suffocating and I must get out. After 2 amazing days, climbing the canyon from Butwal up to Pokhara, this is not the Nepal that I want. It is...
October 24 - 27, 2016 And just like that, literally, as I crossed the border…it all stopped. All of it. Buses blaring their horns traveling through narrow busy streets at speeds unsafe on a 4 lane highway. Cars weaving in and out of those buses, also blaring their...
October 20 – 22, 2016 I asked for it. I wanted it. More mountains. India delivered an American supersized portion. It was like being at an all all-you-can-eat buffet and the only thing being served was mountains. The big, steep, sweeping, relentless kind. I wasn’t...
October 19, 2016 It’s different up here. Life is quieter. It moves slower. There is a crispness in the calm. I got high today, emotionally and geographically. Back into the mountains, if only for a brief spell. Smiles from the local school kids, dressed in their...
October 13, 2016 “You’re can turn off the sun, but I’m still gonna shine.” Jason Mraz It’s been three long, yet mellow days of mostly coming downhill from the higher altitudes as I approached Rishikesh. That’s how it goes when you start with the highest motorable road...
October 8, 2016 I’m back. The mountains. I never want to leave. The beauty of the Himachal state feels like home and looks like Colorado in the spring. The Jammu and Kashmir state was spectacular, for sure. The true beauty of it was simply the allness and the...
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.