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I write professionally about science travel, bicycling, and adventure travel.
A certified bicycle mechanic and bicycle tour leader, I have written or co-authored five books on bicycle touring, bicycle commuting, and bicycling with children--this last being the first book *ever* to be published on family cycling.
Since 1970, more than 60 travel-related articles and essays of mine have also appeared in (among other publications) Adventure Cyclist, Collier's Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of New York City, Essence, Family Circle, Mid-Atlantic Weekends (published by Philadelphia magazine), The New York Times, Omni, AAAS Science 80, Scientific American, and Travel & Leisure.
An avid amateur astronomer since the 1960s, I have chased five total eclipses of the sun all over the world--including above the Arctic Circle and into the Sahara Desert--and have led domestic expeditions to observe grazing lunar occultations (eclipses of stars by the mountains at the northern or southern edge of the moon)...of course, also writing articles on these topics!
A serious student of history (my master's degree is in history of science from New York University, 1978), my pastime is collecting and reading accounts by 19th- and early 20th-century explorers, homesteaders, survivors, adventurers, and other wanderers. I've also written on the history of astronomical expeditions.
Miscellaneous adventure travel experiences include: winning a 240-mile college hitchhiking contest inspired by the song "Stuck in Lodi" (1970); bicycling the 1000-mile length of Baja California (1986-87); trekking to Everest base camp in Nepal (1987); and flying alone to El Salvador to adopt my daughter Roxana as a single mom (1991). In the summer of 2000, Roxana (then 9) and I tandem-bicycled 650+ miles across four states to celebrate my hitting the "Big 5-Oh!" (See "Half-Century Summer.")
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