2021 Highlights

2021 was another doozy of a pandemic year. Pandemic year 2 started off well, Stump having being turned out decisively in November » Read more

New York: Springboard to Paris (November-December 2021)

Friday, November 19, 2021 Today was a travel day, on Jetblue from San Diego to NYC, the first day of 3+ weeks » Read more

After a wonderful long weekend in the Methow Valley mountain biking with Dave, we were off to NYC. We were lucky with » Read more

Friday April 30, 2021 Day 4, Cardenas to Trinity Creek Camp, Mile 92 Today was billed as a Big Rapid Day, including » Read more

Saturday, March 27, 2021 New York, back at last! This long-awaited, week-long return to New York after 16 months away flew by. » Read more

The Grand Canyon is a cathedral of stone, wrought by time, pressure and eons of geologic history. I had unfinished business, a » Read more

Saturday February 20, 2021 From lemons , we opt to make lemonade. This particular week, for the past 10 years, has always » Read more

2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more

August 20, 2019 Day 1: Santa Barbara Island Was it a good idea to take up cold water diving again? This question » Read more

The soundtrack for spring was Hadestown, a folk operatic musical reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Back in December, on a » Read more