I’ve seen Rush (the best power trio, the best rock band, with the best drummer, best bass player and best lead guitarist in the world – yet I remain totally unbiased!) more times than...
On our recent trip to Moscow we stayed within walking distance of Red Square. We visited multiple times during our five days in Moscow, including a visit to Lenin’s Mausoleum (separate article here), a...
My friend and brother Bob was killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bike July 5, 2019. For my friends that are hearing about this for the first time, my condolences and my...
As part of our 30 year anniversary tour we spent two nights and most of three days at the London Lodge at Highclere Castle, the setting for the show Downton Abbey. When we weren’t...
My lovely wife finds the most interesting places to stay. Some of them remain on the bucket list, and some of these adventures have already been experienced. We’ll add staying at The Buubble in...
This race report for the 2015 Pikes Peak Ascent is late. The race was August 15…of 2015. Since then we’ve driven back from Denver, fixed a leak in the ceiling and recovered. Almost a...
My Grandfather was in the 132 Machine Gun Battalion in the 36th Division, First Army, which was deployed to France in World War I. He passed away in 1982, and somehow I was the...
A simple internet search for “cenote” provides pictures of many seemingly magical turquoise paradises – like the photo below, taken at Yukzonodot cenote by us in 2013. But the cenotes of the Yucatan peninsula are...
In my fairly large collection of books on World War II (most of which are in storage at the moment) there exists all manner of perspectives on the Normandy World War II D-Day invasion....
For reasons I do not recall, my mother ran an art enrichment program at my elementary school (good ole Valley Oaks Elementary, part of the Spring Branch ISD in Houston). She would bring in...
Boat ride on the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris on a beautiful day in July 2022
Mid-last year my wife says to me “Instead of just running in circles, why don’t you make every mile count?” She had just found Home for our Troops (HFOT), a non-profit organization that not...
The 43rd Decker Challenge was the third in-person race of the 2021-2022 Austin Distance Challenge (ADC), following the Daisy 10K and the 10-mile Run For The Water. Historically the Decker Challenge is a half...
In the days leading up to the 2021-2022 Green Bay Packers season, I read a biography of Vince Lombardi that I found in (of all places) a book store in lovely Bastrop, Texas (the...
Jumping out of a plane has never been on my bucket list. But it has been on my son Josh’s and his best friend Ryan’s since they were kids. So when Josh’s then-fiance’-now-wife Christabel...
Introduction We were first introduced to Elisabet Ney through a book given to us by our friend Steve. The book is A Twist at the End by Steven Saylor. It is historical fiction around...
The title of this article is a hat tip to my plan in April 2015 to run the Pikes Peak Ascent. I did indeed survive that insanity, mostly intact, and finished the race. Six...
