Bikepacking my way south from Vallarta along grueling hairpins and switchbacks linking vacant towns to playas tortugerias, vast protected coastlines where overseers sheltered baby turtles in bucketloads and helped them out toward the water by cover of darkness.

From Rainbow Road to West Coast Wilderness, where the sky changes its mind every hour until all four seasons collide into one frostbitten sunset. #NewZealand #Cycling #Bikepacking #Bike #Biking #Explore #Outdoors #Camping #BikeTouring #Adventure #Outside #Travel #Backpacking

I’ve been building out this incredible Polygon Bikes Bend V9X gravel bike for the second half of my journey from Alaska to Argentina. Salud to our lucky mud and the spirit of adventure! #Bikepacking #AdventureCycling #PolygonBikes #RidePolygon #OnPolygonBikes #GravelBike #Bikes

Gave the new Polygon Bikes V9X buildout a proper bikepacking test ride over the San Francisco Peaks of northern Arizona, featuring Flagstaff’s “fourth winter” of hail, snow, and the route becoming a literal ski slope over 9k ft:

Explored 200 miles of Arizona’s borderlands via BIKEPACKINGcom’s Sky Islands Odyssey route with grazing pronghorn from afar, the comic burble of Masked Bobwhite Quail, hummingbird sanctuaries and entire hillsides of flowering ocotillo like extraterrestrial candelabra.

More shots of my rugged Polygon Bikes V9X #bikepacking buildout for the ride from Alaska to Argentina. More than halfway there now and bracing for the Andes!

Back at the dream in Central America, #bikepacking from Alaska to Argentina and over halfway there! #Bike #Bikes #Cycling #BikeTouring #Adventure #Explore #Outdoors #Bicicleta #Velo

Found a speedboat between El Salvador’s southernmost corner and a remote immigration outpost in Nicaragua. #Bikepacking the border: #Bike #Bikes #BikeTouring #Cycling #Cyclist #Outdoors #Bici #Velo #Adventure #Explore

Spent a few weeks loosely following BIKEPACKINGcom’s Nicoya Traverse across Costa Rica, connecting muddy backroads to golden beach towns in the height of rainy season: #Bike #Bikes #Bikepacking #Cycling #Outdoors #Nature #Explore #CostaRica

With no roads to bike between Panama & South America, I found a small boat around the Darién Gap into Cartagena, Colombia: instagram.com/p/C-VEQ2DOhbS/… #Bike #Bikes #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Outdoors #Nature #Explore #Adventure #Bici #Bicicleta #Velo #Travel

Loosely followed 250+ miles of the “Oh! Boyaca” route via BIKEPACKINGcom across the Colombian Andes and El Cocuy #NationalPark: instagram.com/p/C-pzVpcu7Sz/… #Bike #Bicicleta #Velo #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Cycling #Outdoors #Nature #Adventure #Explore #Colombia

Climbed +13,500ft to the Colombian Páramos with rare frailejones forests only found in specific parts of the Equatorial Andes: instagram.com/p/C-728wEOO4R/… #Bike #Bikes #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Camping #Cycling #Bicicleta #Velo #MTB #Outdoors #Nature #Explore #Colombia

Bikepacked the “Trampoline of Death,” somehow my safest option amongst FARC militias and guerrilla strongholds across southern Colombia: instagram.com/p/C_Nyzk0OG14/… #Bike #Bikes #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Bici #Bicicleta #Camp #Camping #Outdoors #Nature #Explore #Colombia #Velo

“This town is filled with echoes,” Juan Rulfo wrote in ‘Pedro Páramo.’ Bikepacking the length of Colombia from Cartagena to the Ecuadorian border: instagram.com/p/C_iR639OQWf/… #Cycling #Bike #Bikes #Bici #Bicicleta #Velo #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Outdoors #Explore #SouthAmerica

Picking up the famed BIKEPACKINGcom Trans Ecuador Mountain Bike Route atop Cotopaxi: instagram.com/p/DA0yqpFuh6O/… #Bike #Bikes #Bici #Bicicleta #Velo #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Cotopaxi #Ecuador #GravelBike #BikeTouring #Outdoors #Outside #Nature #Camping

Traced the famed BIKEPACKINGcom TEMBR trail atop Chimborazo, Ecuador’s tallest volcano and new highest pass of my cycling career: instagram.com/p/DBRVY0WOm0u/… #Bike #Bikes #Cycling #Cyclist #Bikepacking #Backpacking #Bici #Bicicleta #Velo #Ecuador #MTB #Hiking #Camping #Nature

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension and not another, unevenly. And sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.” - Anaïs Nin Reflections on bikepacking the Trans Ecuador Volcano Corridor: instagram.com/p/DBjMKBSOZR1/…

Bikepacking the dirt roads of north Peru where services quickly faded toward nonexistence between the smallest of empty villages: instagram.com/p/DBypbJOuYFY/… #Bike #Bikes #Gravel #GravelBikes #Bikepacking #Backpacking #BikeTouring #MTB #Camping #Outdoors #Nature #Peru #Bici

Proud to finally share some of my work in this winter’s issue of The Travel Almanac, a beautiful hardcover photo book and travel writing journal issued twice annually. Visit travel-almanac.com for issues and subscriptions. #Books #Reading #Writing #Magazine #Publishing