Tag: Highway

Cycling the Dempster Highway, NWT — Up the Mountains onto the Tundra.

No animals managed to reach my food bag. I tried to hang my food on a rope between two spindly muskeg swamp spruce trees. Both little trees actually sagged closer together and my food bag is only about two feet from the ground. I cook oatmeal for breakfast, get everything packed up again and loaded ...

MBS Highway Housing Survey — December 2023

The MBS Highway National Housing Index recovered slightly, rising to 34 in December 2023, from 31 in November 2023. In December 2022, the index was at 14. The overall improvement was driven by a 7 point rebound in the Buyer Activity sub-index, which rose from 20 in November 2023 to 27 in December...

Navigating the Zen Highway: A Deep Dive into “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” Through the Lens of Stoic Philosophy

An odyssey into life’s challenging philosophical questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions. One of the most influential books written in the past half-century, Robe...

Highway Jottings-1

This is an iconic image for me, shot at Bhim, Rajasthan. Soon after the maiden truck trip from Chennai to Gurgaon, over six days in November 2010, the urge to explore more highways refused to die down. Thus came the trip from Gurgaon to Bengaluru in 2011 — several months before the rel...

A Highway to Depth

Most books nowadays, do not need to be books. The key ideas (and there are often only a few of them) in books can always be stated in a sentence, aphorism, or at most a paragraph. For example, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection could be articulated in a few sentences, bu...