Conquering Your Fear
Debra Winsor brings true meaning to the term “citizen of the world,” and declares, “I do not let epilepsy run my life.”
Richard Shane’s Brilliant Outcome Through Surgery and Community Involvement
Over the course of 22 years Richard Shane estimates that he has experienced 2,500 simple partial and generalized seizures. However, thanks to epilepsy surgery Richard has now been seizure free for over eight years.
Finding Your Solution
Channing Seideman is an 18-year-old Colorado native who has lived with epilepsy since age 10. Seize The World fans may remember Channing from her 2009 feature, “You Only Live Once.” Channing is very good at figuring out ways around her seizures so that she can lead a fulfilling life. The following story is based on Channing’s phone […]
Telluride
The tour is now over, and I’ve made it to Telluride. The trip was great. It was a long trip, a hard trip, and a good trip. Those were the words of another bicycle tourist I met along the road who had just made his way to Jerusalem from Germany. I understand them pretty […]
Utah
Barring any accidental clicks, unauthorized hacks, or major drama in the coming days, this post will be the last Seize The World update from the road. Right now I am at Pizza Hut in Moab, sitting at one of three occupied tables on this side of the restaurant. The other side of the restaurant is […]
Idaho
My latest stop on the Seize The World tour was Boise, Idaho. After pedaling through the lonely, barren wastelands that make up Eastern Oregon, I really did not think that there was anything out there to top the experience. But then I rolled into Boise. I went there to give a slide show presentation to […]
Oregon
I have now arrived in Caldwell, Idaho, about 30 miles west of Boise. The past ten days or so have been spent on a tour through Eastern Oregon. I now consider Eastern Oregon to be its own distinct region of the world. To gain access to Eastern Oregon, I spent four grueling days pedaling east […]
Back from Christmas
I have returned to Portland, Oregon after spending a week or so visiting my home town of Telluride for Christmas. “Wait,” you say, – “Home already?” Yes, if I have learned one thing on this bicycle tour, it is that your family is important. In the case of my own family, we typically come together once […]
Seattle…On the Road Again
Ian and I had a great flight back from Tokyo. My first thought in answering questions from all of my family here was that there was lots of entertainment on the flight… Ian and I played a multiplayer game that was kind of like checkers. We played for an hour or so before we settled […]
Kyoto and the Shinkansen
Click here to read the article in the University of Colorado Alumni Magazine, Coloradan, about Seize The World, if you have not already done so! Life in Kyoto, Japan is good. My friend Ian McKittrick and I rode about 200 miles from Narita, Japan through Tokyo and around Mt. Fuji to the city of Hamamatsu […]