Yesterday we ran the New York City Marathon, and we finished it!!!!! Sara and I sat up late last night trying to describe it to each other, and every attempt fell short. How do you explain a million people you’ve never met cheering for you like you’re family? Or crossing a bridge with thousands of runners and hearing nothing but feet? We’ve traveled to a lot of places and seen a lot of things, but we’ve never felt anything like that. It’s easily one of the top ten moments of our lives. A big...
5 days ago • 4 min read
Six days from now, we’re standing at the start of the NYC Marathon! Back in September I told you Peloton asked us to run it with their team, and we said yes before the email even finished loading. Now it’s actually here, and the feelings are all over the place. We feel good. The training has gone well, and the weather in Tennessee has been perfect for running lately. But if I’m honest, I keep wishing we had a few more weeks. More long runs. More of everything. Everyone tells you that’s normal...
13 days ago • 6 min read
Greg B., you won the boat! Back in August we asked if you wanted four nights on a Le Boat, and 629 of you threw your name in. When we drew the winner this month, it landed on Greg, who has been reading these emails since 2021, and we couldn't be happier that it went to someone who has been along for the ride that long. Greg, you've got four nights on your own boat in 2027. You can take it on the Rideau Canal in Ontario, the same canal we took ours on, or pick any Le Boat destination in Canada...
20 days ago • 7 min read
Last week we flew home from Copenhagen, and somewhere over Iceland a woman behind us started shouting, "Help! Someone help me." I had my headphones on and a movie playing, and it took me a few seconds to realize the shouting wasn't coming from the movie. When I finally turned around, one of the flight attendants was bent over in the aisle, and on the floor next to her was a man who had just walked out of the bathroom and fainted. There's a particular kind of helpless you feel on a plane when...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
We paid seven dollars for a cup of coffee this week. It was a very small cup, at least to our American-sized brains. We sat there waiting for someone to bring the rest of it. Nobody did. Everyone told us we would love Copenhagen. Friends said it, strangers said it, and one commenter said it with three exclamation points. We believed them, so we showed up ready to fall for the place. We've spent our days walking the city between training runs, and it is clean and friendly and easy on the eyes....
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
A few weeks ago we got an email from Peloton. They wanted to know if we'd run the New York City Marathon with their team this November. We said yes because honestly, tt's the kind of invitation you don't turn down. It's truly a genuine honor, plain and simple to be given this opportunity. We've both run marathons before, so we know exactly what that email meant. It meant we needed to start running because we only had eight weeks to train. Getting into the New York City Marathon on your own...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
This email is late. Like, really late. A few weeks ago we started losing power in the Land Cruiser. Not all at once, just enough to notice. Something wasn't right. We figured it was the fuel filter, which is a pretty routine fix, so we pulled over just outside Gothenburg to swap it out. That's when the fuel filter holder snapped off in our hands. Turns out a previous mechanic had overtightened it, and when we went to change it, the whole thing gave way. So now we didn't just have a clogged...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
I just dropped a meatball sandwich on my lap. That is not a bit. That is not a metaphor. I'm just a man trying to write a newsletter from the passenger seat of a 1988 Land Cruiser in Sweden with a sandwich that did not cooperate. We're back in the truck. We flew from the US to Europe on Friday, picked up the Land Cruiser, and pointed it toward Finland. And the flight is what we want to talk about today, because we think it could save you real money. We flew business class on Air France....
3 months ago • 5 min read
There's a moment on the Rideau Canal, somewhere between the second and third lock, where everything just slows down. Kramer was on the top deck with his nose pointed into the wind, ears flapping like he was trying to take off. Sara had her feet up. I was steering from the flybridge, which sounds impressive until you realize the canal speed limit is about 6 mph and the boat practically drives itself. But Le Boat handed us the keys after a 90-minute lesson at the dock in Smiths Falls, and...
3 months ago • 6 min read
