Previous Long-Distance Record Eclipsed
Until last year, the farthest urban environment from home I’d ever rode a bike as an adult was San Antonio, Texas, which deposed riding done in San Francisco way back in 2003. From here on out, I’ll...
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I’m With The Band
Thailand & Cambodia 2055 Originally uploaded by there2roam During one of our last excursions in Chiang Mai we journeyed to a village cooperative supporting several indigineous tribes from the...
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Power to the Purple!
(click it for the bigger picture) Thursday’s LA Times brought to my attention the 8th-Annual Ojai Valley Lavender Festival, and it didn’t take much convincing to get Susan on board for a daytrip out...
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Rest In Peace, Frere Lampier
One of the highlights of our 2007 visit to Paris was the discovery of the Shakespeare & Company bookstore, across the street from the Hotel du Notre Dame where we stayed. I just learned that its...
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Would Ya Look At That: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park
Stumbled on this photograph Susan made of Ranger, me and Shadow as we wandered around one of my favorite places that we had pretty much all to ourselves on November 12, 2007 (click it for the bigger...
View ArticleAmong The Mountain Gorillas In Rwanda
Yesterday, Susan forwarded me an amazing video (embedded at the end of this post) sent to her that captured an unbelievable interaction with mountain gorillas and a trekker visiting Uganda’s Bwindi...
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A Bond Finally broken
During our final evening at the Anantara Resort about 55 miles north of Chiang Rai, Thailand, on March 25 last year, on a hilltop overlooking the Mekong River and beyond it the countries of Laos and...
View ArticleStraight Outta Steinbeck
When we entered the south end of Joshua Tree National Park early yesterday morning I wondered rather hopefully but doubtfully to myself if Susan and I would be so gifted as to see both a bighorn sheep...
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Get-A-Way To Idle-A-While
Susan and I didn’t get to take a full-blown vacation this year. No two weeks spent in the Far East or, on a 4,500-mile road trip around the western United States. Not even a long weekend anywhere. So...
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Of Apples & Escapes
Having to take our 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid (with a whoppingly low 12,600 miles on the odometer) into the dealership for service this week, I’d been meaning to write about the odd temporary malfunction...
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The Story Of The Traffic Reporter And The Pedant
ped·ant – noun: a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules. Here in the greater Los Angeles area we’re blessed with not one, but two excellent public radio stations, KCRW at...
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