\ud83c\udfc6 2023 BIBA\u00ae Travel Memoir Winner!<\/p>\n
Life doesn\u2019t come with a roadmap…
\nAnd this is not a guidebook
\nCORY MORTENSEN rode his bike from Chaska, Minnesota, to California. The experience ultimately changed his perspective on how life could be lived. So, rather than returning home after his adventure\u2014back to the life unwanted\u2014and equipped with absolutely no plan and nothing tying him down, he makes a simple phone call to quit his career and hitchhike south along the Pacific Coast Highway. Destination unknown. Sounds like a pretty good idea.<\/p>\n
One minute, I\u2019m sitting in a cubicle, and the next, I\u2019m haggling over a room in the Andes in a location of the world I never even knew existed.<\/p>\n
Where does a guy go when he has no place to be? Passport, tent, sleeping bag, and a favorite pair of Chaco sandals\u2014enough gear for meandering from the Mexican border to the southern tip of South America, right?<\/p>\n
Humor \u25a0 Insight \u25a0 Adventure \u25a0 Gratitude \u25a0 Peace<\/p>\n
Forty-hour bus rides, Mayan Ruins, five-dollar tattoos, mountain biking down the Road of Death, para-gliding the mountains of M\u00e9rida, trekking the Patagonian Andes. Spectacular sights, strange foods, unfamiliar smells, interesting people\u2014and what would a trip like this be without a little dynamite?<\/p>\n
Cory Mortensen has ridden his collection of bicycles over a million miles of asphalt, dirt, mud, and backroads. In addition to the cross-country journey detailed in his first book, The Buddha and the Bee, he has traveled to over fifty-five countries, cycled from Minneapolis to Colorado solo to raise money for children born with congenital heart defects. He\u2019s completed sixteen marathons on five continents, and survived three days of running with the bulls in Spain.<\/p>\n
Cory is a certified Advanced PADI diver, and has enjoyed taking in life under the waves in locations all over the world. In 2003, he took time off from roaming, and accidentally started and built a company which he sold in 2013. That same year he married his best friend, and explored the state of Texas for two years. The couple sold everything they owned, jumped on a plane to Ecuador and volunteered, trekked, and explored South America for sixteen months before returning to Phoenix, Arizona, where he works as a consultant and bestselling author.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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