Gravel News Network (GNN)

   MINNEAPOLIS, United States (GNN, the Gravel News Network) -- Gerasimos G. "A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life" Photo:  Markman Outdoor Photography . Prologue My feet swung over the side of the bed  and are now on the floor.  It's somewhere between 3 and 4 in the morning and the crickets' hum pulses outside my window in Minneapolis, inhaling and exhaling, just the same as two nights ago, as my feet  were locked into the pedals of my bike, flowing and pressing, rolling smooth tires over a long string of gravel roads, following the subtle traces of the riders ahead of me.  The  meteors above brushed fiery white lines fast across the night sky, blazing pathways between stars.  Beneath them were the riders, snaking