Far From Home For The Holidays

November, 2018

For one young adventurer, reconnecting with the spirit of the season was simple—it just took a bicycle, two hemispheres and 7,000 milesSitting outside a crusty hostel in Ecuador, smoking cigarettes with some Argentinean backpackers, I found that I couldn’t locate the Big Dipper in the night sky. It was August 2014, and I was a year into a 16-month cycling journey from Oregon to Patagonia, the other side of the world from my hometown of Los Angeles.I asked my companions to help me find the Dipper...