September 28, 2016 Ups and downs. Highs and lows. Literally and figuratively. Nothing is easy here. The terrain is unrelenting, physically and emotionally. It will pick you up and knock you back down. Will you get back up? Even when not climbing a 16k ft, 17k ft…or...
September 27, 2016 I woke after 10 hours of sleep, sleep that was interrupted several times by the need to put on increasing layers until I found my sweet spot, and of course my star gazing. My water bottles were frozen. It was 630 a.m. I didn’t want to get out of my...
September 26, 2016 It seems that no matter what, wherever you look in this region, you are surrounded by daunting, ominous, beautiful, and inspiring mountains. They are so tall that even though the sun rises at about 615 a.m., it does does not crest the tops of the...
September 26-30, 2016 Do a search for the “Leh – Manali Highway”. You won’t find too much, but for me, I found just enough to inspire me. It is about 440km of some of the most lose yourself, jaw dropping, intimidating, remote, what happens if…, inhospitable, and yet...
September 25, 2016 Yesterday’s battle laid the ground work for today’s war. While there was some confusion over how much climbing one can expect while paralleling a river, there is no way to misinterpret a road on the map that looks like an perfectly cooked spaghetti...
September 24, 2016 Not All Roads That Follow a River Are Flat. Remember this. The old bait and switch got me again. Today was supposed to begin with the continuation of the Khardung La descent for 20 km, then a 40 km flat and relaxing stretch along the river before...
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.