Eric Benjamin started the Adventure Monkey blog last summer as a way to document and share his rides in the Flint Hills of Kansas. “I am a professional photographer that fell in love with cycling,” Eric says. “At Adventure Monkey, I share my cycling adventures and photography in hopes that I may inspire you to remember your dreams and live the life you have always wanted to live, no excuses or regrets. It’s time to live.”
The Adventure Monkey web site is also where Eric sells his amazing photographs. Be sure to check out the Adventure Monkey Image Portfolio for some examples of his work, which you can also purchase on paper or canvas.
In just a few short months the blog grew in popularity and readership, and soon expanded. In March, Adventure Monkey Magazine was born. This is a full-color, professionally-produced publication, and issue #1 focuses on Kansas Cycling, with a special focus on the challenges and rewards of bicycling in winter.
The magazine features articles from an amazing variety of contributors, including Anne Marie Garrett (ride like a girl), Shawn Honea (IM Design Group), Robert Garcia (River City Cyclist), LeLan Dains (The Life of LeLan), Rebecca Martin (Get Spoked), Matt and Stephanie Brown (High Gear Cyclery), Garret Seacat (Seagato), Mike Wise (The Vertically Challenged Mountain Biker), Adam Didde (Adamthedad), Rob White (Maverick Enterprises), Bobby Wintle (something to write home about) and Randy Rasa (DirtBum).
You can read issue one of the magazine online (PDF) or purchase a hard-copy from MagCloud. Eric hopes to offer subscriptions in the future
In addition to the web site and magazine, you can also follow Adventure Monkey on Facebook and Twitter.
For this episode’s “On The Scene” segment, I interview my partner with the podcast, Randy Rasa, about a recent week-long trip he took to Arkansas. You might have seen some of the posts that came from that trip (Cyclo-Tourist Outlasts Winter and Eureka Springs: Naturally Bicycle Friendly), but Randy put together a full write-up on his personal blog, DirtBum, with lots of photos and descriptions of the places he explored. Yeah, you might say his Adventure Monkey led him to Arkansas …
It was a fun trip for him, but there was a lot of climbing in the Ozark Mountains, way more uphill than the flatlands he is accustomed to! Read more at DirtBum’s Arkansas Adventure.
Incidentally, you can also follow the DirtBum blog on Facebook and Twitter, as well as subscribe via RSS or email.
This post is copied and adopted from Randy's Show Notes for Episode 18 of the Kansas Cyclist Podcast.
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