The Importance of Sitting In The Dark
There comes a point in the night when the flame of the fire is on its last light. We’ve spent the last few hours sharing our stories and our dream of what we would do if we could do anything.…
Carabiner Coffee and Patagonia Team Up
I’m stoked to announce that Patagonia and Carabiner Coffee are officially teaming up! What does that mean you ask? It means Ol Blue and I will be joining the Patagonia Worn Wear campaign on the road this year! Get ready to…
The Importance of Seeing The Sunrise
How long have you had that same thought that calmly waits in the back of your heart and holds a candle refusing to let it go out. I’m talking about that life change, that goal, that letting go or grabbing…
The Importance of Picking Up That Sign
Over the years a lot of people have asked me why my open sign is split in two? I always have smile when I tell them the answer. The 1st day I ever went out and sold coffee I was so…
The Importance of Letting It Happen
So it’s all happened a lot differently so far than what you had planned, huh! Yeah me too. The more I talk with people about this the more I see we all seem to have this pre-written story that we…
The Twelve Dirtbags of Christmas – A Poem of Love
“The Twelve Dirtbags of Christmas” My friends gather round for the truest of phrase A list of the dozen most dirt-baggy ways We do this in love and in all the best fun Because most of you reading, probably know…
The Importance of an Honest Answer
Do you want to do this? Think about it for a second… do you really want to do this? Whether its running it out 30 ft from your past piece to the anchors or its moving away from the mountains…
The Importance of Letting Yourself Go
You just watched the car drive away, full of gear and friends and stoke. You decided to stay though, because of that one thing. That one one thing that you have convinced yourself can’t wait or has to get done.…
The Power of Perspective – (A Willingness to Love the Ride)
If you would have told me 5 years ago that I would own a coffee business and be traveling the country in an old hippy van, first I would have called bullshit… then I would have said ‘well that’s rad!’.…
The Importance of the Uncomfortable
Take few seconds to think about your most epic adventures, the ones that are going to stay with you for a life time. Chances are, the one thing they all have in common is that at some point you were…