Photos From The 4th Annual Utah Olympic Park Hill Climb

The Park City Hill Climb is an annual event where runners race up a steep and windy 5K course that leads from the Kimball Junction area of Park City to the very top of the Utah Olympic Park. In the process, the participating runners gain nearly 1,000 feet in elevation.  The following are some of [...]

17 Beautiful Homes From Marshall, Missouri

The streets of Marshall, Missouri are the home to dozens of beautiful Midwest houses. Here are a few of my favorites.

Camera Equipment For Photographing Your Travels

For years I’ve been using a simple point and shoot camera to photograph my travels. But after numerous recent requests to write and produce articles for magazines, newspapers and other online publications, I’ve decided to put more effort into the photographs I take while on my travels. In order to help me achieve a new [...]

Running With Ed: 41-Mile Park City Relay Race

On Saturday, May 22nd, the Park City Education Foundation put on a 41-mile relay race in my hometown of Park City, Utah (USA). I rode my bike to Newpark, where the event was headquartered and waited for the runners to come in and cross the finish line. While waiting, I listened to talented teen musicians [...]

25 Web-Based Services You Can Use To Work From Anywhere In The World

More and more people nowadays are making a living online. Laptops, netbooks, cell phones, tablets and other mobile or hand-held devices are allowing a new generation of enterprising entrepreneurs to work from home or just about anywhere in the world. For the past five years, I too have been making a living off the Internet… [...]

The Bicycle Traveler’s Blueprint For The Amazon Kindle

You’ve heard of “The Bicycle Traveler’s Blueprint” before right? The “Blueprint” is my eBook about modern bicycle touring. It’s a text that took me over two years to create and contains all of my secrets for successfully pulling off a long-distance bicycle tour and for feeling at home while out on the road.You can read [...]

My Apartment In Vienna, Austria

More than six months before arriving in Vienna, Austria, I rented a small one-room apartment from an online listing at Craigslist.org. The price was just 600 Euros (about $800 USD) for a three week rental. According to the listing, the apartment was located in an area of the city just across the street from the [...]

Diagram Of A Traditional Touring Bicycle

The diagram below shows the basic parts of a traditional touring bicycle.

Katy Trail Packing List

You don’t have to travel around the world or live on the road for months on end to call yourself a bicycle traveler. Conducting short trips by bike in your local area (or even in your home country) is a great way to get out and experience the joys of bicycle travel. Yesterday I flew [...]

Check Out My Interview In Cycling Utah Magazine

I live in the state of Utah. I haven’t always lived here (I’m actually from Southern California), but I moved to Utah about four years ago and I absolutely love it here. Recently, Cycling Utah magazine asked to interview me and feature some of my bicycle touring exploits in their May issue. Well, the May [...]

Eastern Europe Animated Bicycle Tour Documentary – An Interview With The Filmmaker

20-year-old Josh Wedlake and three friends spent a month slowly pedaling their way by bike from Berlin to Istanbul. After the trip was over, Josh sat down at his computer and for four entire months worked to create an animated film about his cycling expedition through Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. Josh [...]

Earth Days – A Documentary Film About The Environmental Movement

For a limited time, you can watch Earth Days for free on the PBS website. Click here to view the film NOW! The problem with environmentalism is that it tricks people into believing that in order to make change in the world, you (as the individual) need to have less, be less, do less and [...]