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Erik Binggeser

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Breaking Rules

December 12, 2022

Two detours deep into riding across Texas standing at the front desk at Panther Junction in Big Bend I’m explaining to the person that “No I promise I don’t mind I can totally just put my tent in the parking lot if there’s no sites I only have a handful of miles left in these legs…” and they would not let it go that there simply was not a single available spot remaining in the entire park and overnight parking was not allowed. Barely a minutes window of serendipitous timing dropped a group of gents in line next to me registering a river permit for a kayaking trip they had planned for the next few days, them overhearing my (admittedly amplified) frustrations, and offering to join them at their registered site. I was betting they half provided me an alibi if I wanted to then just go ⛺ off in the desert somewhere buuut I said fuck it; the five of us managed to get Omnium into the back of a truck and I rode with em downnn to their spot.

We chatted about what it means to adventure in these modern times, connected dots on numerous things I miss about Austin (where they all live, miss u Freebirds), watched the sun set and moon rise at the exact same moment, and (I’ve been debating sharing this or not) shared a few beers. Yeah whoops 1,027 days of sobriety and I fell off when a good Texas dude tossed me a Modelo as I’m sitting in the back of a pickup. They didn’t know and I never told them but it felt as if breaking my don’t-get-into-cars rule had already been discarded without any feelings of guilt and this was one more ehhhhfuckit let’s see where the night goes layer of frosting on this cake I’m baking.

Traveling by bicycle is a self administered gauntlet of challenging ups (and ups and ups and ups) with enough downs (wait are we talking about hills orrr) to level someone out. It persuades you to accept everything that shows up. Often there really are no other alternatives and yeah you gotta sleep in a baseball dugout, inside an abandoned ice cream shop, or with four guys you just met because overnight parking is not allowed.


Road Trips

December 04, 2022

I’ve been (slowly) pedaling across this country for two weeks now thinking about how to represent / show off / talk about this new part of my life. Random spur of the moment thoughts still get tossed into daily stories so if you’re into more frequent updates I’d suggest turning on notifications for those things. However, the stuff I post on main has been evolving into more relying on a narrative than just posting a pretty pic with some #hashtags and y’all seem to respond well to the words sooo I think I’ll try and keep that up.

It’s an often relayed thought that traveling by bicycle is the best way to see a place, best way to experience a city / state / country and I obviously would agree even before setting off on this ride. But now that I’m 700 miles or so into the damn thing it has solidified even more the notion that any other method of getting around is unintentionally (or maybe intentionally) avoiding what makes travel a thing worth.

When you travel by traditional means, car plane train bus, the time spend moving is something you want to reduce as much as possible. Your trip is planned and executed with the goal of arriving somewhere, then arriving at the next somewhere, then the final somewhere. Any delays along the way are frustrating wastes of time to be dispatched without remorse so that the journey can progress as expected, as planned.


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