Welcome, Tyler H. Sevlie!

Here's the scoop: We're in Seattle. It's a beautiful town perched on steep hills swathed in evergreens. I've been tweeting and updating my Facebook statuses like a crazy fellow. The bikes are almost all roadworthy. In an hour the team will be assembled.



I'd like to say a huge thank you to Melissa, Torgeir, and Helen Hauglund for putting us up on Tuesday night. We called Melissa when we were an hour outside of Seattle to see if she knew a place we could camp free, and she put us in… Continue

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This is my practical blog post. I love writing the spacious, word-full, meaty thinking blog posts, but they aren't as much fun to read later as the practical posts.



3 1/2 weeks ago I crashed the heck out of my bike. I bent the forks back a good 2+ inches and bent the frame at the head tube. It was gnarly. The story's worth telling.



I had decided to ride my bike from Red Wing to Apple Valley for church. It's about 40 miles of rolling farm-to-market roads, and… Continue

Dear Friends,



Support letters have been and are being sent. The parts from my first, broken bike have been transferred to a different frame and are beginning to work together. Arm warmers and an extra pair of short have been ordered, with sunglasses on the docket for Sunday.



On Wednesday I'm leaving Red Wing and my parent's house and going to Minneapolis and the Venture office. Next Monday I'll be in a van driving to Seattle and an adventure the likes of which I cannot… Continue

This is a very important video blog I made on the Ride:Well Tour last year. Check it out.

I love the last stanza of this poem...it's fitting for a bike tour.…

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