After a fair amount of coffee and a tremendous amount of time coming down from the monster that was my 2011 Almanzo experience I've decided to jump headlong into the world of internet entertainment...sort of.

In all honesty, as some of you may already know, I've been posting drivel on the Almanzo blog for a long time. From hockey fights to useless abstract art videos I have been trying to show the world as I've been viewing it. Some of it good, most of it benign, but all of it important to me. This new site is a culmination of everything I've been a witness to as well as the things I feel are important in the world of gravel racing, cycling in general and life as usual for me and the folks I know. In an attempt to keep things as fluid as possible I have moved all of the posts over from the Almanzo blog (just in case there was something there you just couldn't live without).

In addition to that I have invited a few fine folks to make regular contributions to this new site. Among them are the esteemed Jeremy Kershaw (of Heck of the North fame), Sir Christopher Tassava of Northfield, DJ Martin Rudnick, a currently anonymous expert in the field of beer and liquor, the Honorable George Mallory and others as they make themselves available. Here, alongside myself, these fine folks will strive to bring you current and valid opinions, reports and interviews from the world we know.

I hope you enjoy what you find here and come back often as we intend to be adding content on a regular basis.

Cheers,
Chris Skogen