by melloajello | May 17, 2013 | Frontpage, Spinning Southward
“Spinning Southward is a documentary film following three bicyclists who traveled from the far northern shores of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska through 13 countries to Ushuaia, Argentina in support of the National Brain Tumor Society.” The DVD has been out for almost 3...
by melloajello | Apr 4, 2013 | Spinning Southward
The last post was about the expedition camera + laptop technology of 2006, how I struggled with its limitations, and what I learned about preventing it from breaking on a 10,000 mile bike tour from Mexico to Argentina. Looking back, its really quite incredible how...
by melloajello | Mar 14, 2013 | Spinning Southward
What is it like to live every day on a bicycle for 16,000 miles?“Spinning Southward” is a documentary film following three bicyclists who traveled from the far northern shores of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska through 13 countries to Ushuaia, Argentina in support of the National...
by melloajello | Nov 8, 2012 | Spinning Southward
When I joined Spinning Southward and started the 10,000 mile ride south with my camera and laptop, I thought my problems would be finding clean water and fighting off banditos, not trying to figure out where to fix technology in Latin America. Yet that was pretty...
by melloajello | Nov 5, 2012 | Spinning Southward
This Thursday, November 8th, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center will feature Spinning Southward at the Art & Science Discovery Center located at 3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard, Lafayette, CA 94549. The screening will begin 6:30 p.m., followed by a brief Q&A...
by melloajello | Oct 16, 2012 | Spinning Southward
We definitely were not the first, or the last, to ride our bikes from Alaska to Argentina. We weren’t the fastest . . . like Emmanuel Gentinetta, who still has the world record for the fasted solo bike tour for the famed 16,000 miles of Pan-American highway....
