Thaddeus Ward

Lima, Peru

I've lived in 4 countries and more than 30 places. I have practiced some form of outdoor endurance activities in all of them. I love movement.

Two Wheeled Parenting

31 Mar 2026 Family HAHA Chronicles Parenthood Stuff

The happy babble from the stoker’s seat reminded me that I was decidedly not solo on this particular climb. Whatever minuscule quota of lung-sucking-quads-on-fire-No-Talking time I was allocated had apparently expired. On the steepest part of the corner I interrupted her.

Welcome HAHA

17 Mar 2026 HAHA Chronicles Marriage

Welcome HAHA

Like any good affair, we showed up suspiciously disheveled and slightly concerned about how we might smell in public places, invented excuses for why dinner might be late and showed up at teachers conferences a bit overly clean and Daysi’s hair suspiciously wet.

Constellations

03 Mar 2026 Family

Constellations

I was, once again, in full survival mode with even worse pavement than Route 12, and with just as little shade as on my journey the Sierra Nevada in ’84. Different geographies. Different decades. Same place.

Trashed

17 Feb 2026 Family Marriage Stuff

Trashed

A new bike will cure almost all afflictions; especially useful in the treatment of ague, melancholy, bad humours of the blood and troubled relationships. The treatment is a bit more expensive than the venerable practice of bloodletting but with less mess and similar efficacy.

03 Feb 2026 Family Parenthood

Once in Four Lifetimes

I heard little else that night over the recriminations raging in my head. All I had to do was stop! – get off the bike and walk all of us through. Grampa had never cycled through a tunnel before.