Our friends Pete, Johnnie, and Mick got an early start to summer adventure with #MegaTour17, a three week bike tour/Megabus road trip they created. Their journey will take them from the Lone Star State to the Big Apple with a few pit stops in-between to visit with friends and family and explore new cities.  Along the way they'll be putting some of our gear to the test.  The first leg of their trip started in Austin. Johnnie and Mick flew in and scooped up Pete, who recently relocated to the Texas capital. After a couple days of exploring (and being treated to a five hour lightning show), it was time to break out of the Austin city limits and head...

Hey there swrve family, Before we confront the reality of being back to the grindstone, we wanted to take a moment and share some of the highlights from our trip to Iceland. In a word, the experience was incredible. In a few more more words, we can’t recommend adding Iceland to your bucket list of travel destinations strongly enough. We’ve dreamed of visiting for years and we can’t wait to go back for a return visit. The scenery is so stunning and magnificent that you don’t realize how little words and pictures do it justice. Then you find yourself standing on a black sand beach in Sólheimasandur, in the shadow of a DC-3 that was left to decompose after it...