When I returned from Europe to Jordan almost exactly one month ago, I came back to a different social scene that when I left. School got out at Whitman a week after I left, and most of my fellow teacher friends had left, including the two Jons, my neighbors up the street. With Whitman no […]

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I think I’ve set a new record so far for non-updating in the month of May. I feel like I’m either getting lazier with the blog or just getting busier in general and the two are definitely proving to be mutually exclusive. Having done the amateur blogging “thing” for the past 3 years now (mid […]

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Intracom provided my teammate Andrew with the company’s high-definition Panasonic HDC-HS9 camcorder during the race, in order to help record the memories of us being sweaty and exhausted. Now just imagine the wonders of being sweaty and exhausted, captured in high-definition! That’s right, 1440 x 1080 and 1920 x 1080 video clips were being taken […]

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In which Zach joins the Intracom Cycling team for his second year with the Dead2Red relay, 242 kilometers of desert biking from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea

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I really should be in bed right now. Andrew, the Dead 2 Red teammate with the backup truck, is going to be picking me up in 3 hours from now, and I only now just got done cleaning up the kitchen downstairs from the Second Annual Dead 2 Red Spaghetti Dinner (it’s a mouthful, pun […]

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What happened to the desert country of Jordan? It rained all day today, the last Friday before the Dead 2 Red, so hard that Rami, Omar and I canceled our training plans in the hopes that we’ll have better luck tomorrow or some other time in the week. I forgot I hadn’t set my new […]

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