Photo Credit: The Amazing Jose Sandoval Part One: This is How We Die Part Two: Paint My Coffin Pink Part Three: Pour My Ashes in Slate Olson’s Coffee Famous last words. Remember them well: “All we have to do is get up Dixie Mountain and we’ll be ok.” All we have to do is get [...]

I have been connected to the Sicilian for more than 11 years. United in life and love and adventure and navigation and challenge. I have watched him rolled out of surgery with his entire ear cut away and then taped back onto the side of his head. I have slept with him under Jesus’ serene [...]

Halfway to Detroit Here’s how it happens. I wake up in the morning and put on a fairly almost-brand-new pair of Sidis. I lash a temporary home to the back of a heavy steel bike with a long wheel base. I pedal out of Portland. Along the way, I learn how to start the heavy [...]