Originally published in the Icelandic Mountain Bike Club's (Fjallahjólaklúbburinn) yearly magazine https://issuu.com/fjallahjolaklubburinn/docs/3001 Only a week had passed since I finished my 11,000 kilometer ride across America and now I was assembling a new bike at the Keflavik International Airport to start another journey. A few months ago in late March, I had paused my great … Continue reading From San Francisco to Ísafjörður

Introduction If the human species stopped consuming and producing today, how long would it take to reverse our impacts on climate change? This scenario is not exactly plausible today in today’s world but it spawns a question regarding our future of when do we need to shift our mindset from total consumption to environmentally conscious … Continue reading Pick Up the Can – An Economics Perspective on Climate Change

Sieur de La Salle was a French explorer from the 17th century who successfully sailed the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico (Roberts 1997). With this voyage, he laid claim to the land that surrounded the Mississippi River for the French and named it Louisiana after the then king, Louis XIV … Continue reading The La Belle Shipwreck – An Examination of Texas Maritime Heritage

There are an infinite number of options when it comes to choosing a hiking trail in the world. Weather, length of trail, amount of time available to hike, time of year, location, difficulty of the hike, and trail accommodations are all factors that should be considered when choosing a trail. This paper will examine a … Continue reading Considerations of Hiking Trails

Sometimes you don’t really know how lucky you are to have had someone in your life until a few years have passed. For me, that person is Mark G. Goode III. From the moment we met on my first day of work at Kimley-Horn, an engineering firm in Dallas, Texas, I could tell that Mark … Continue reading A Colleague and a Mentor

I think of my tour across America in four parts. The first was from San Francisco to San Diego with all of my friends and was the perfect way to kick off the journey. The second part was figuring out the whole solo touring thing until COVID hit in late March. After taking 10 weeks … Continue reading Pack to School pt. 4

June 2020: a week into my restarted tour and I had just made it out of the most brutal ride across Texas ever. I describe this portion of the ride at the loneliest of the trip. I was figuring out how to ride through a pandemic so I resorted to avoiding major cities and really … Continue reading Pack to School pt. 3

During my 10-week COVID break, I didn’t really find the motivation to keep riding my bike. Riding loops through the flat fields of south Texas was not as appealing as riding on a one-way trip across the country. I didn’t step on a scale to know my exact weight difference, but I would estimate that … Continue reading Pack to School pt. 2

I had been thinking about this trip for the longest time. It crossed my mind pretty much every day I was riding across America. I will always consider it the last leg of my tour, because of what waited for me at the end. Home. Four days after I had paused my tour around the … Continue reading Pack to School pt. 1

Home looks a little different these days. Technically speaking, I haven't lived at a residential address since December 20, 2019. While I did live at my parents' house for ten weeks through COVID, the majority of this year has been living a nomadic lifestyle. It's something I've been searching for for a while. I always … Continue reading Home on the Road