Don't hurry, don't worry, and don't forget to smell the flowers.

I find I enjoy myself most on those days when it's just me and a couple close friends away from it all. True human interaction in a day when we are all spread so thin.

It’s not the destination but the adventure along the way.

I was pretty blown away by how vast and aggressive the terrain is in the Japanese Alps. You're looking up at peaks, and it's like Alaska seeing all kinds of amazing stuff that looks ridable, but it's 70 percent death defying; only a small percentage really goes.

Pretty much everywhere we went we had crazy weather. I think Russia was probably one of the toughest places for us weatherwise, but even Alaska, the last three years have been somewhat subpar when you look at historically how Alaska can shape up.

It would be really nice to have a venue stop in Japan someday. Japan would be perfect for it.

I realized pretty quickly just how big and aggressive some of the mountains were down in Nagano Prefecture.