About six years ago I carved out an area in the back yard to plant a Day Lily garden.  Vicky and I have been working on it since then, plant...

Five years ago, almost to the day, I finished my final training ride for my first Seattle to Portland bike ride--the STP.  That was about tw...

We have been in the planning stages for our next road trip almost from the time we arrived home exactly three months ago.  One doesn't j...

Officially known as Synvisc.   It is made from the crown of chickens, of all things.  I have often wondered who thought to themselves: ...

We took Ian and Adam camping at Bowman Bay.  Spent two days and nights there.  We all had a blast--hiked, played on scooter...

This year we are training for the STP by doing more frequent, but shorter rides .  Last year we rode 1000+ miles in the three months prior t...

Iraq is falling apart, just as so many of us predicted over 10 years ago when the US declared war on a country that was run by a tin hor...

The Good. Vicky turned 64 last week.  To celebrate, we took our camper to a nice spot on the Cle Elum River, spent four days there camping...

In one of the areas we camped this winter we came across an old bus.  It reminded us of the bus in the Sean Penn film "Into the Wild....

As of today, I have achieved a milestone that in my pre-retirement life I never could have thought possible.  Starting with my training for...

Earlier this week I almost hit a bike rider with my car.  Or, rather, a bike rider almost rode into the front of my car. I was exiting a p...

This was intended to be a Mother's Day celebration with her family. It didn't turn out that way.  Three days before, on the day...