11/5/2016 Day 5 I’m up by 530am and huddled around the wood stove in the kitchen where my chocolate pancake is being prepared. My water bottles are chunky with ice, but not frozen. I’m out the door and on the bike by 6am, prepared for 6 hours of hell. There are 2...
The Annapurna Circuit is one of the most renowned trekking circuits, not only in Nepal, but the world. It has only recently been approached by bicycle. The circuit or APC as it is commonly referred, is 230km (about 145 miles), rising from near sea level to an altitude...
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...
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.