My name is Gin, and I learned how to ride in an empty NYC, during the Pandemic.

At a time when everyone started new hobbies and baked millions of banana bread loafs, I learned to ride in the Avant Gardner parking lot. 

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After years of publishing, talent scouting and creative business in Rome, today I am a designer in NYC who loves to organize dinners and events to connect people with soul food. My life has changed many times, my only constant has always been my pindaric curiosity and my enthusiasm. 

 

I always wanted to be a rider, and here I am, with my dirty gloves. Another characteristic of mine is that I always wanted to be many other things. The perfect metaphor is that I started with street bikes, I went to the racetrack, switched my CB 600 for a Ducati enduro and started exploring BDR. It took a trip to Utah on a Multistrada to realize how much I love deserts and how immersive it is to travel on a bike, with only a tent and a lot of freedom.

 

The desert fascination must come from my Italian background: I never seen a desert in my life, beside those remote mountain town in the South. Moonlanding on these rocky and alienating landscapes has been quite an epiphany for me.

 

I believe that there exists a correlation between the seductive sand found on the Mediterranean coast and the untamed, hostile, and dancing sand of a desert. It is always sand, but it traverses different terrains and forms of consciousness. I feel like that sand, I'm not in a postcard anymore, I'm riding the postcard. ​

 

Sandy Gloves give you the postcard back, invites you to be part of it. It gives you the insights, the checklist to set you up, the itineraries. Will sometimes give you my stream of consciousness. I've been working for magazines for years and I can tell you that here we won't have a tone, a style, a language. We are more than fluid, we are sand. 

 

So here I am imagining Sandy Gloves as an ongoing lifestyle project where you can be part of it, I am open to blog contribution and meeting people on the way of our trips. We can talk adventures, food, places, and cities. We can plan a trip together, a dinner, an event, a project that can get our hands sandy. This is the plan.