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# Lovely Detours
- URL: https://www.joeyplunkett.com/lovely-detours-2/
- Published: 2026-03-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-26T16:24:14.000Z
- Author: Joey Plunkett
- Tags: Newsletter

Hi y'all,

This week I want to highlight my [Two Minute Detour](https://www.joeyplunkett.com/the-two-minute-detour/) and expound upon the road (literally) less taken. Hope you enjoy.

1. I'm writing this from Atlanta, GA where I'm visiting friends and doing a bike race this weekend called [Fried Clay](https://friedclay.com/?ref=joeyplunkett.com). This race will be the longest I've ever done and - at 200km distance - will certainly teach me something about myself. I'll give updates next week. That said I've been loving visiting Atlanta - a new city for me. It's lovely and I've been particularly impressed with the bikeability in town, and the fact that off of the [Beltline path](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxEUECcgWh4&ref=joeyplunkett.com) there are vibrant business built in human-centric infrastructure (not a car in sight). Very cool.
2. I'll be listening to my trusty playlist ['Shred Gnar](https://www.joeyplunkett.com/mixtape-shred-gnar/)' on this ride - my trusty snowboarding playlist, something I wish I were doing more of right now as it's been a dry season here in Colorado (it hit a record high this week and the snowpack is at a historically low level). Hopefully we get a few more storms this season, but support [Protect Our Winters](https://protectourwinters.org/?ref=joeyplunkett.com) no matter what.
3. We've moved to a new house, the first one we've owned. We're discovering the trials and tribulations of homeownership in real time. It feels like I've picked up a new hobby called home maintenance - rewarding, difficult, joyful, and sometimes frustrating, all met with enthusiasm. I'm looking forward to writing about the experience and trying to balance the new found joy of staying. Also, [This Old House](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQN1-3OPVuQ&ref=joeyplunkett.com) videos all of the sudden really hit, and have completely taken over my YouTube feed. Tom, please. Which siding is better?
4. I might need to update my [Take a Walk](https://www.joeyplunkett.com/talk-a-walk/) piece as I have a dramatically new daily route. We moved from the city into a small town outside of Boulder so the walk now lacks much of the sidewalk traffic of old: the dog walkers, the commuters, and joggers that used to greet me as I left my front door. But finding a new route has been fun. It now winds through local parks, past the school, has a great view of the mountains. I'm starting to notice new patterns of life in this place we've moved to. I'll report back later.
5. I'm currently reading [The Terror,](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3974.The%5FTerror?ref=joeyplunkett.com) a novel inspired by the real-life, ill-fated 1840s British Discovery Service expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The ships became trapped in the ice and never made it out. After a long stretch of fantasy reading, including Brandon Sanderson's [Wind and Truth](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250319180/windandtruth/?ref=joeyplunkett.com) and finally checking the last outstanding Cosmere novel, [Warbreaker](https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/warbreaker-introduction?ref=joeyplunkett.com) (which I highly recommend), off my list, I was looking for something more grounded, but not entirely. The Terror has been exactly that. It's historical fiction written by the same author as the fantasy classic [Hyperion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion?ref=joeyplunkett.com), which makes for an interesting blend. Two real ships stuck in Arctic ice, beset by the things that always plague humanity in these scenarios, and some things that don't. It's a spooky, dark inversion of the hero's story I read as a child about Sir Ernest Shackleton, and his [Endurance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance%5F%281912%5Fship%29?ref=joeyplunkett.com). Horror (or horror adjacent) is new territory for me, I've stayed away because I always read before bed. If I make it through this, I might finally crack open the copy of Clive Barker's [The Hellbound Heart ](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52635.The%5FHellbound%5FHeart?ref=joeyplunkett.com)that's been sitting on my bookshelf for five years. If you have recommendations for what to read after The Terror, shoot.

['Til next week](https://youtu.be/egsiGXt5yio?si=u6Bzd1Kiu-zfLPMk&t=494&ref=joeyplunkett.com),

Joey