June 23 Remember that time you smiled with your entire body, rather, your entire being? I do, and it happened today…all day. I got an early start, leaving Andasibe by 8am with hopes to knock out the 90km before noon. Again, I started out riding in a slight mist. I...
June 22, 2016 I spent the day at Andasibe National Park. This is the prime place to get your lemur on. The park consists principally of primary growth forest and is home to a vast biodiversity of many endemic and endangered species. There are 11 lemur species...
June 21, 2016 I was recently asked, “What is your favorite part of the trip?” “Well, I like ice cream and skiing. They are both amazing.” I replied. How can I sum up my favorite part of the trip? Everything has been beautiful, exhilarating, inspiring, and humbling. I...
June 20, 2016 I was prepared to make the focus of this posting, a vivid and graphic recollection of the amazing and crushing 7 hour ride I had through remote areas…places that I would wager not many foreigners (if any) had ridden…until something happened at the end of...
June 17 – 19 Well, I’m still in Tana, but I’m leaving on the 20th…this time for real. I keep changing my route from the west coast, to the east coast, to the north, and now, today, as I was literally getting on my bike to head north, I changed. I’m going east. This...
June 14 – 15, 2016 2016 has unofficially, yet very intentionally, become my year of kindness and gratitude…and I do not anticipate it ending on 12/31. The more you give, the more you get…and it is addictive. My father always taught me to give people more than they...
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.