Awesome ride Saturday morning. Blue skies, sun shining, good company (Shout outs: Meryl, Laura, Diana, Omar, DLC, Taylor, Erin, Danni, and Tyler), and news of a more hopeful plan for my second family.

“Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” — Shakespeare To be honest I’ve heard the quote but never really realized it’s relevance to anything really. It’s like saying some people are born brown, some achieve brownness and some have brown thrust upon them1. […]

Dear Bijal and Lane, Without you two I wouldn’t have applied to Texas4000. Without you two my life would have been profoundly different. So I love you and thank you for being. Love, Nadia xoxo

I can’t put it all together. I’m not even sure I want to. How can the energetic person I met last year at a T4K meeting be the same person lying in a hospital bed suffering from the very disease that brought us all together? Saying that it isn’t fair is like calling WWII a […]

When I go home to visit my family, I stay in Marfa, a little town in West Texas known for its mystery lights and budding contemporary art scene. I go back to Marfa now but I grew up in Alpine, a town 30 minutes away, and my grandparents live in Ft. Davis, another town 30 […]

Alright, so 2012 is coming up soon, which means our ride is coming up soon, which means I need to get in better shape . . . now. So, I just bumped up my workout to a daily routine, and limited myself to one home-made chocolate chip cookie per minute. I think that’s a step […]

Today was a beautiful day, so of course, I embraced the sun and went out for a ride. As I lost myself in thoughts, I came to the crossing of the road I was on, and the bumpy sidewalk I was about to turn on to. I paused; across the street there was a father […]

“What won’t kill you will make you stronger.” I have mixed feelings about that quote. Riding is hard. It’s really hard. I think it is, anyways. Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of fun doing it! And I really believe that’s why it gives me no reason to complain when my thighs start […]

I remember the first time I saw my teammates foraging through the bushes eating these bright red marble-sized berries. I thought they were crazy, but they assured me it was fine. I half-expected them to drop down dead in the next couple of days from poisoning, but it turns out that they did know what […]

It’s winter break, and I now have ample time to update this! Keep checking back over the next couple of weeks for more updates from my summer 🙂 —————————————- We saw a lot of bears this summer. Locals told us that there were more out than usual due to the late snow melt keeping the […]