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matt

told him 'yeah,' but only when i pedaled past him

About Me

i want some things to change and i'm trying to figure out my part in it all. my preferred method of transportation is a late '70s sekai 2500 named blitzkrieg. my old band is called blueturnswhite . i'm not homeless anymore!

My Interests

playing music, bouldering, creative vegetarian/vegan cooking, road bicycles, and trucks with lots of wheel travel

I'd like to meet:

the passionate storytellers.

Music:

Iron and Wine, Augustana, Strung Out, Counting Crows, Karate, Matchbox 20, RX Bandits, Thrice, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mike Doughty, Rocky Votolato, Copeland, Bad Astronaut

Movies:

Memento, Big Fish, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Ocean's Eleven, Magnolia

Television:

she's in my head.

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, On the Road, Fight Club, Ishmael

Heroes:

Rocky V, Matt Embree, Geoff Farina, and anyone with enough brains and/or balls to truly and completely leave the system.

My Blog

vienna austria

aka Wien, Österreich. we leave in 11 days.  we are staying in a Sparkasse-owned flat for free with richelles host sister, johanna.  hanna and her boyfriend, rupert are at the robbie williams...
Posted by matt on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:02:00 PST

muenchen!

we stayed in a hotel with glenn and maria.  short update, huh? reisephotos
Posted by matt on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:31:00 PST

okay so i have more time than i thought

so this hostel we're staying at... it's a nice place.  showers in the rooms.  big group kitchen.  clean facilities.  no curfew.  the only thing about this place is, they lock ...
Posted by matt on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:30:00 PST

dublin, ireland

double decker buses.  the head on guinness sticks to the inside of the pint glass.  europeans have fancy shoes.  i saw a ford ranger and it looked incredibly out of place.  irish b...
Posted by matt on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:19:00 PST

tour update 7

today is day 21.  three effing weeks on the effing road.  speaking of "the effing road"- katie and i have been making a playlist of songs that we've either been singing to ourselves on the r...
Posted by matt on Sun, 28 May 2006 02:09:00 PST

tour update 6

day seventeen... i think? okay so here's the deal.  since last november katie and i have been planning this huge 2700 mile adventure from portland to anchorage.  we leave portland on bikes.....
Posted by matt on Thu, 25 May 2006 03:05:00 PST

tour update 5

DAWSON CREEK!! MILE ZERO on the ALCAN!! our trip is almost half over.  today is day thirteen.  last night on the way to DC we started hearing thunder.  it sounded pretty far away so we ...
Posted by matt on Sat, 20 May 2006 03:16:00 PST

tour photos!

thanks to luke BAD-A heafner, we can post pictures from the road.  this is not the only way luke has helped us, and i can't thank him enough.  anyhoo here you go...
Posted by matt on Fri, 19 May 2006 12:35:00 PST

tour update 4

day ten! double digits y'all. we called the bike shop and told them what we needed and they said they couldnt fit us in until saturday.  then we told them that we are biking through on our way to...
Posted by matt on Fri, 19 May 2006 12:20:00 PST

tour update 3

eff the fraser river canyon.  eff the desert.  did you know that in southwestern BC in the summer, temperatures regularly reach 30+ degrees celsius?  did you know that that transla...
Posted by matt on Wed, 17 May 2006 12:42:00 PST