This week Seth Gottesdiener found himself in Memphis, in the midst of a long bike ride. A very long bike ride. It’s a journey that’s taking Gottesdiener several weeks and several thousand miles — with a very particular purpose.
A Los Angeles-based gym owner, personal trainer and social activist, Gottesdiener has been traveling across the United States for much of the past month, talking to people from different backgrounds as part of a documentary he’s making on the state of the Union, so to speak, in 2020, called “The Great American Bike Ride.”
In the midst of what’s been a historically tumultuous year, Gottesdiener decided he wanted to better understand where the United States and its residents were at. Traveling from LA to Washington, D.C., he’s been stopping in big cities, small towns and everything in between to speak to a cross-section of Americans in an…
