The Transformational Nature of Biking Across the United States or How Lighthouse Bikes Began! NPR Profile Piece-Airing Monday, August 8th at 6:30 PM on Marketplace with Marielle Segarra

I am sitting in my shop alone with my feet up. Way up. I am tired, but content and full of anticipation about what comes next.

This blog post isn’t a story-it is more of an announcement. I had the good fortune of spending two days with Marielle Segarra from NPR’s Marketplace and she has created a profile piece about my son and my bicycle trip across the United States, my book “Changing Gears“, and how it all inspired the opening of Lighthouse Bikes. I am positively giddy.

I guess I had no idea where I was really heading when I decided to take off on a bicycle journey with my son Oakley, but maybe that is part of her interest in the story. Sometimes taking chances is the only way forward. And the truth is, I couldn’t be happier than to have landed here-sharing the joy of bicycling, adventure and the outdoors while getting to interact with many good people everyday.

And Oakley? He is doing great. Growing up. I miss him and that is a good thing. He is becoming more independent and standing on his own two feet more-it is all I ever wanted, but our adventure has remained the fulcrum of our relationship. It has wound us together and I hope it will never let it go.

If you are interest-please listen-I haven’t heard it yet, so it could be really humiliating, but I am good with that. I have a tendency to put it all out there.