Drew Gilbert

Writing this on the train from Thivim to Mumbai: There is no starving on the Mandovi Express. Not if you have a few rupees on hand, anyway. Wallahs in a seemingly endless procession come down the aisle, selling too many things to mention them all – chicken lollipops, chai, byriani, omelets(?) sandwiches, lassies, and on [...]

Circumnavigating India is going to be a challenge, possibly more than I can conceive of at this point. Still, I have a masochistic streak in me where I immediately want to make things harder on myself than is reasonable. How small could I make my pack while still being able to take video, photos, blog, and get [...]

When plotting our travels through Asia, I remarked at how I would be missing the Tough Guy race this year. To compensate, Christine and I looked around for other challenges in the area that might be comparable. We found several rickshaw races, mostly all booked by that point, and had given up on finding anything [...]

UPDATE: The retreat was fantastic! To read the first part of my thoughts on it, head over here. I will be putting together another post about it here at Drewgilbert.com as soon as is reasonably possible. You can continue reading now…. ____________________________________ As I write this, I am sitting on an 11 hour bus ride [...]

Now that Cole is older and well past the swaddling point, the new hotness of cool things for first time dads to experience is smiling and/or laughing in the kid’s sleep. Considering how much time I spend with him, I don’t get this as often as I sort of expect. Maybe it’s something that will [...]

I don’t have much by way of clothing as we have embarked on our most recent travels. If you see me, chances are you see me in something resembling the photo below: When buying clothes for the trip, I tried to stick with tech material that would dry out easy if wet, in case I [...]

Parents who brag about the developmental achievements of their children – do they exist anywhere but in bad Hollywood productions? Thankfully, I haven’t met these people (presuming they exist), because I would laugh openly in their faces as they bragged about how quickly their child crawled, walked, wrote cursive, what-have-you. Our soon-to-be nine month old [...]

This is the first edition of ESSENTIAL THINGS, what I hope will be a series of highlights of some of the things that I own that I plan to have and to use for years to come.  For my first week, I want to talk about something that is not at all essential to most [...]

Here is Part Three of my report on Tough Guy 2010 – Year of the Original Hero. Part One is here. Part Two is here. Below is a video taken by a crazy racer who strapped a camera to his head. It covers pretty much what I cover in parts 2 and 3, and by [...]

Here is Part Two of my report on Tough Guy 2010 – Year of the Original Hero. Part One is here. Part Three is here. I’m number 6532. Not at all looking happy to be there. The Tiger I was thrilled when I hit the first major obstacle, the “Tiger”. To me it meant that [...]