by Michael | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog
The chapters have been rewritten, wordsmithed, de-filtered, slashed and finally prepared for final editing. Years of writing real-life characters I once knew so well have brought me back into their lives through social networks and in-person meetings. Thanks to all of...
by Michael | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog
The story – behind the book and the photo – is a celebration of arrival. Not the arrival of a teenager who just crossed France on roller skates, but the arrival of a teen into adulthood. Fueled by testosterone and hubris, guys tend to test their limits of...
by Michael | Feb 17, 2018 | Blog
I never found a definitive answer to the question; am I was the first person to roller skate across France? 1981 was a good 10-15 years before real Internet to search was there, and certainly, we had nothing in the local library with information like that. Nothing in...
by Michael | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog
June 14, 1981, I rolled eight wheels across the border of Spain. It’s 1981. An American teenager on a self-reliant gap year in Europe can’t bear the idea of going back to his dependent life at home but still lives on the fringe of manhood. His girlfriend is visiting...
by Michael | Aug 21, 2014 | Blog
Day one in the book includes a little action like this in an Italian tunnel. It’s very much like these guys, only without the helmet, in silk shorts, and wearing a 35 lb. backpack. I’m also closely followed by two double-decker tour busses. I don’t...
by Michael | Jun 14, 2014 | Blog
33 years ago today I became the first person to street-ski across France —from Italy to Spain—carrying a 35 lb backpack and ski poles up and down the hills of the French Riviera. From skating through Monaco’s Casino and Gran Prix to the Film Festival in Cannes,...
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