Sep 26 2018
When I get older losing my hairMany years from now…….Will you still need me, will you still feed meWhen I’m 64. “When I’m 64” — The Beatles I know I’m getting older, losing my hair. Hardly anyone needs me, and no one feeds me, and I’m way past 64. I hit 65 a few days …
Sep 06 2018
Last week, on the last day of August, I was going to join some friends for a bicycle ride around the Oceanside-San Diego area. But before meeting them, I decided to take a few minutes to visit a certain place in the town of Carlsbad. It was where Ruth and I spent our honeymoon back …
Aug 24 2018
There are certain things a 6-year-old child never forgets. Tell them that the stinkiest flower in the world is about to bloom and release its horrible stink at the nearby Huntington Library and Gardens, and they will relentlessly ask you daily: “Can we go see the stinky plant TODAY?” Certain thoughts are indelibly stamped in …
Aug 18 2018
I’ve decided. I am going to take 6-7 months to bike the Australian Outback in 2019, crossing the entirety from one end to the other. The tentative plan is to start at Perth in Western Australia, cut through the middle of Australia (signified by the rock Uluru), and arrive in Sydney on the eastern coast …
Dec 24 2017
In November, a week before Thanksgiving, I decided to head to Utah to ride in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Grand Staircase, for short). It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, prompted by the knowledge that Trump was going to severely reduce the size of the monument. Riding the Continental Divide this summer made me painfully realize …