FINDING FITZ ROY

14,000+ miles. 
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Driven by Curiosity. Fueled by Adventure.

Lone Rucksack documents explorer Dani Bradford— a dirtbag solo adventurer and storyteller. In 2015, Dani completed a 4,500 mile+ cycling journey through 15 countries from Portugal to the Republic of Georgia. Her most recent project, #FindingFitzRoy, documents her motorcycle journey down the Americas— from Washington, DC to Patagonia. Learn more about Dani here. 

 

 

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In Which I Drink My Own Urine

March 2018 The sun would rise at 5:33 every morning, but I rose before it, lacing up my shoes and pulling my hair back into a tie. I brushed a few pieces away from my face in one of the long mirrors in the boxing ring. A moment later I was off, feet pounding down […]

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Heading South: The Return of #FindingFitzRoy

Honduras The sun is brilliant rising, warm oranges reaching from behind the mountains, touching the leaves on the trees and slowly making its way across the road. The pale shapes of the morning take form and become the highway, and I am no longer a shadowy thought but real, and present, and riding again, illuminated […]

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In Which I am Hit by a Truck

On the Road from La Ceiba to Tegucigalpa, Honduras // 10 AMThe rain that had filled the potholes on the red dirt road had gone, leaving only empty spaces. My motorcycle bumped up and down as I leaned right and then left, slowing down then speeding up, navigating the twisting road that followed the river […]

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“There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. ⁣ ⁣ And the reply was, Eat the strawberries.⁣ ⁣ The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now.” ⁣ ―Neil Gaiman “You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are.” ⁣ ―Emily Coussons⁣ ⁣ Two days ago I was training with @edgardo.mma when he asked me to do headstand pushups for Muay Thai strength training. I do not enjoy being upside down—I repeat— I do NOT enjoy it. It’s unnatural and unpleasant. Even using the wall as a support, Edgardo had to spot me and when I was (finally) upside down I panicked but also tried to do a pushup. I flailed around while Edgardo did most of the work trying to hold my struggling legs to keep me from giving up until I eventually collapsed on the ground. We agreed not to do it again. ⁣ ⁣ Pushing myself every day is how I feel empowered— even when I feel like I can’t (or don’t want to) succeed. But the struggle is what makes it worth it. Trying. Failing. Repeating. Collapsing on the ground in a fit of laughter and panic. ⁣ ⁣ Come train with us. Link in bio.
“Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.” ⁣ ―Amit Ray⁣ ⁣ Photographer: Fernando Moreno @luisferchat⁣ Production/Assistant Art Director: Gaby Silva @magasicasnd⁣ Motorcycle Jefe: @lonerucksack⁣ ⁣ Models (and athletes) @Ng_Urbano Crew: ⁣ Jesfran Salcedo @jsfranlife⁣ Victor Duno @dunopk_⁣ Elias Gomez @eliaspkfr “There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.” ⁣ ―Nicola Yoon⁣ ⁣ @eliaspkfr killing it.⁣ ⁣ Photographer: Fernando Moreno @luisferchat⁣ Production/Assistant Art Director: Gaby Silva @magasicasnd⁣ Motorcycle Jefe: @lonerucksack⁣ ⁣ Models (and athletes) @ng_urbano Crew: ⁣ Jesfran Salcedo @jsfranlife⁣ Victor Duno @dunopk_⁣ Elias Gomez @eliaspkfr
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”⁣ ⁣ “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.⁣ ⁣ “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”⁣ ⁣ “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”⁣ ⁣ “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”⁣ —The Velveteen Rabbit ⁣ ⁣ Today, two years ago, I was riding my motorcycle in Honduras when a truck crossed the highway and hit me. I can’t believe it’s been two years already, I can’t believe it’s only been two years. Sometimes I miss the person I used to be before the accident— she seems like this more innocent version of me, less heavy, full of light. I think of her in the way I think of people I’ve lost— I think of the beautiful memories we shared, and that life goes on. We grow, we change, we become more complicated with more depth and experience, and there’s no going back, and that’s okay. We don’t get to hold onto everything, and what we do with loss makes life beautiful. ⁣ ⁣ Link in bio to the Podcast with She Explores sharing my story. “You belong here.”⁣⁣ —Queen of Katwe ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Rolling into the week like, which tool do I need first?⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I wanted to create a commentary on the sexualization of women in motorcycle culture, a nod to the woman in the room being the experts— it turned out pretty amazing. Thanks to brilliant photographer @luisferchat for bringing this to life. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Photographer: Fernando Moreno @luisferchat Production/Assistant Art Director: Gaby Silva @magasicasnd Motorcycle Jefe: @lonerucksack⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Models (and athletes) #NgUrbano Crew: ⁣⁣ Jesfran Salcedo @jsfranlife Victor Duno @dunopk_ Elias Gomez @eliaspkfr
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ―Leo Tolstoy “It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on my own, to be my own person.” ⁣ ― Etaf Rum⁣ ⁣ Overlooking this beautiful spot in Guatapé in the morning, moto gear at the ready- one of the stops on the Motos + Muay Thai tour over Labor Day Weekend! Link in bio.
“It's harder to be afraid of something you understand.” ―Scott O'Connor “Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something... You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.” ―Pursuit of Happyness
“Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.” ⁣ ―Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie⁣ ⁣ Photographer: Fernando Moreno @luisferchat⁣ Production/Assistant Art Director: Gaby Silva @magasicasnd⁣ Motorcycle Jefe: @lonerucksack “The measure of a woman is what she does with power.” ⁣ ― Plato⁣ ⁣ The sun was bright, the winding road to Guatapé twisting through the hills, tall, green grass hanging so far into the road I could touch it with my fingertips, leaning into the deep turns on the motorcycle. It’s a funny thing, distance. Perspective. When riding and you can’t see anything in front of you at all, you lean into the curve and watch and wait and hold the turn, until you come out the other side. ⁣ ⁣ And now I sit atop this little terrace, looking into the distance, watching the lake curl into the hills like a winding road, and wondering what’s on the other side.
“If you are going to accept anything, accept who you are.” ⁣ ―J.R. Rim⁣ ⁣ When you’re the least sexy person in this group of gorgeous guys (@NG_Urbano) but it’s okay, because you get to wear the @vansonleathers jacket. ⁣Another shot from this project commenting on the sexualization of women in motorcycle culture. ⁣ Photographer: Fernando Moreno @luisferchat ⁣ Production/Assistant Art Director: Gaby Silva @magasicasnd ⁣ Motorcycle Jefe: @lonerucksack⁣ ⁣ Models (and athletes) @ng_urbano Crew: ⁣ Jesfran Salcedo @jsfranlife ⁣ Victor Duno @dunopk_ Elias Gomez @eliaspkfr “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ―Charlotte Brontë
“It’s the unknown that draws people.” ⁣ ― E.A. Bucchianeri⁣ ⁣ Riding winding roads in the early dawn to arrive at this spot to watch the sunrise. “Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need...he's not the sun, you are.” —Shonda Rhimes

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