Taiwan Cycle Route 1: What English-speakers need to know to bike around Taiwan.
11 things you need to know to have a great time on Taiwan Cycle Route 1. This article is a “Part 2” of a series on Taiwan Cycle Route 1....
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Tim Mathis
- 20 min
Why our month of biking in Taiwan was the virtually perfect trip.
If you’re going to devote time and money to a trip, you want it to be good. Life-changing if possible. A lot of places in the world have...
Tim Mathis
- 10 min
12 Books that Define Dirtbag Culture (and a few more that should)
Books that have shaped outdoor and travel culture into what it is today.
Tim Mathis
- 14 min
Ghost sighting: Crybaby Bridge, West Alexandria, Ohio. June 22, 2022.
It seems like there’s a Crybaby Bridge in every small town in the Midwestern United States. I don’t normally go for that stuff, but I...
Tim Mathis
- 13 min
This year I decided to become a writer
A lot of tragic creative stories go something like this: “I always loved writing/painting/singing/sculpture but no one believed in me and...
Tim Mathis
- 8 min
Kurangaituku: The case to make a surreal Maori myth the next book you read.
Kuragnaituku is the best book you almost definitely haven't heard of (yet).
Tim Mathis
- 16 min
Seattle music history, by way of artists that I've behaved strangely around.
It would be hard to argue that it keeps up with the London’s and the New York’s of the world, but considered purely in terms of per...
Tim Mathis
- 10 min
The Hero’s Journey: Narrative therapy to write yourself out of a dark black hole.
How you can use the Hero's Journey to write your way through your problems.
Tim Mathis
- 14 min
The Old Dogs of Olympus
The gods may be long gone, but there's still magic on the climb to Mt Olympus
Tim Mathis
- 9 min
Everything I need to know about New Zealand’s pandemic response I learned in a bar in 2018
A story about the social fabric that made New Zealand strong enough to beat Covid.
Tim Mathis
- 1 min
Three poems written on a run.
1. Walk into the woods Lie down next to a stream Close your eyes And think about Instagram Pisses you off, huh? 2. It’s impossible to...
Tim Mathis
- 2 min
What does it feel like to actually live your dreams?
I guess it depends on what type of person you are, and what dreams we’re talking about. I think for a certain type of person, with a...
Tim Mathis
- 5 min
A Dog Catches its Tail
At this stage, the crowd can’t be stopped. And at this stage, Dan from accounting is nothing if not part of the crowd. With tattoos where...
Tim Mathis
- 1 min
You’ll be pleased to know that this is the year when we all come to terms with death.
I know you’re excited, because we’ve decided to abandon the delusion that it won’t happen to us! In a few days, we’ll stop pretending...
Tim Mathis
- 8 min
New Zealand Is a Force That Makes Us Dirtbags
Aotearoa New Zealand has a way of making you care less about things, and more about the outdoors.
Tim Mathis
- 7 min
Leaving religion, playing outside: What's with the post-religious dirtbags sliding into my DMs?
Listen, I know this is strangely specific, but I keep running in to people who have left their religion and latched on to the outdoors...
Tim Mathis
- 6 min
Do you really need to pay attention to the news? In defense of selectively ignoring problems.
Sometimes it's healthy to just ignore the terrible things happening in the world.
Tim Mathis
- 6 min
A time capsule from a year of post-traumatic growth: How losing faith made my life better.
Top 10 things learnings from a year of post-traumatic growth.
Tim Mathis
- 6 min
I Hope I Was Wrong About Eternal Damnation: A free preview
A free preview of a funny book about losing faith in God.
Tim Mathis
- 7 min
What is a Dirtbag? An excerpt from "The Dirtbag's Guide to Life"
This is an excerpt from the introduction to The Dirtbag's Guide to Life. Other people have defined the term - I'm not the first - but I...
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