Michelle Krivanek is going to bike across the country for some reason that seems banal and unreasonable like deciding that you need a haircut that exact day or deciding not to go out that night so you can wake up early and plan your milage for the next month of your life riding through strangers and fields and that friend of a friend’s house whose couch you sat on. I am not going on bike tour so I can sit on their couch. I don’t know why I’m going on bike tour. I’m going on bike tour so I can keep on. I’m going so that I can keep on seeing the people and the places that I want to have traveled thousands of miles for. Or for a haircut or to go to bed early so that I can wake up and plan out the next couple thousand miles. I’m going on bike tour so I can find out why I left.
Ariel Raymon lives in Berkeley, California and is a student at the Presidio School of Management, which emphasizes Sustainable Business. Ariel and a colleague founded the bike Farm, a non-profit bike shop in Portland. Recently, Ariel had a dream where she was engaged in zen meditation with a whale. She is also very huggable.
