We move outside our comfort zone and seek new experiences to grow.

We find adventure in the epic and the everyday.

We travel to broaden our horizons and engage with nature.

We are most at home in remote landscapes and far away places, but never far from our

community of passionate dreamers and wanderers.

We are Chaconians.

Join the ChacoSphere at ChacoS.com.

Where were your ChacoS go?

This is the Shorts, and you're listening to the Dirtback Diaries, a duct tape and beer

production, with additional support from New Belgium Brewing, Kuat Racks and Patagonia.

Standing up in my pedals, I dug so deep to make it to the top of the hill.

I wasn't positive that my butt would be able to bear sitting back down on my bike seat

when I did get to the top.

But as I slowly heaved over the crest of the hill and saw almost a half dozen more massive

rollers ahead, exactly like the one that I just battled up, I practically fell back

onto the bike seat.

Coasting down the hill, I tried to psych myself up for the next one, but the tent and sleeping

kit and food in my paniers felt heavier than I had when I left the house that morning.

And I couldn't seem to muster anything but a lagging, granny gear grind.

Cars whizzed by within feet of my slow and steady mashing, men and women in suits, and

buttoned down shirts, speeding by on their way home from typing and making phone calls

or having meetings since early morning.

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