TwoWheeledWorld

A lot of people ask me, "Hey Matt, where'd you learn to write so well?" ......Ok, one person asked me that once. But my response was prompt: "it takes a creative mind and a good English teacher."

I ran into my old high school english teacher out on the trail the other day. A teacher who shared a common bond for the Colorado outdoors. Back then, he put up with my English papers which were everything and anything about mountain bikes.









But rather than steer me to other topics or more rigid writing restrictions, he let me embrace my own interests, and shaped my writing style as only a veteran high school teacher could.





I haven't forgotten that, and it's made me part of who I am today. Here's to the teachers in our lives who have let us experience life at our most impressionable times...