Our cities are running out of Tradespeople
Skilled electricians, carpenters, painters, all-arounders – people who are knowledgeable, handy, and can fix our homes. They’re dying. Literally. This frog got…
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Protected: Chapter 2 of Inferno of Eden
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Read moreWhat’s in an IPO? My experiences through GrubHub’s offering from start to finish
GrubHub had it’s Initial Public Offering on April 4, 2014. In many important ways, this was the start line for a new…
Read moreCondo Meeting. A short play.
I was recently asked to write a play for Victory Gardens Theatre for their Annual Gala. This is a departure from the…
Read moreItaly Part 2: Radda in Chianti
There’s just one thing that you need to know about Tuscany. It tastes good. The pasta is good. The wine is good….
Read moreItaly Part 1: Rome
Just a short time ago I finished a bike ride across the United States. During that trip, I spent a lot of time…
Read moreFinal Equipment List
I got a chance to read a number of gear lists before I took my trip and I found them incredibly helpful….
Read moreJourney: Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean.
When I started this great ride across the country, I knew that it would be more than physical. It was to be…
Read moreDay 75: Pacific: Swisshome, Or to the Frickin Pacific Ocean.
26 miles (42 km) – Total final milage: 4,157 miles (6,626 km) Over the last 75 days as I’ve inexorably rolled towards the…
Read moreDay 74: Signs of the end.: Eugene, OR to Swisshome, OR
60 miles (97 km) – Total so far: 4,091 miles (6,584 km) Eugene is a well-intentioned town of biking lifestyle lovers… with a…
Read moreDay 73: The Atomic Pie Bomb: Sisters, OR to Eugene,OR
92 miles (148 km) – Total so far: 4,031 miles (6,487 km) The pre-penultimate day of my grand adventure across these United States…
Read moreDay 72: Riding Incidental: Ochoco Lake, OR to Sisters, OR
47 miles (76 km) – Total so far: 3,939 miles (6,339 km) Today wasn’t so much a ride as it was a…
Read moreDay 71: Wildfire!: Dayville, OR to Ochoco Lake, OR
73 miles (117 km) – Total so far: 3,892 miles (6,264 km) This trail isn’t done with me yet. Today’s ride was…
Read moreDay 70: Outstanding Oregon… and Outlaws!: Austin Junction, OR to Dayville, OR
60 miles (97 km) – Total so far: 3,819 miles (6,146 km) 100-105 degree heat really smothers all chance of enjoying any…
Read moreDay 69: Train!: Baker City, OR to Austin Junction, OR
54 miles (87 km) – Total so far: 3,759 miles (6,050 km) We were up before dawn to race against the heat….
Read moreDay 67: Hot Headwind Hills and Harleys
My destination for the day was Baker City. The ride itself was the kind to just get done. Lots of steep hills,…
Read moreDay 66:Final state: Cambridge, ID to Halfway, OR
Oregon Day 66-Halfway, OR Day67-Baker City, OR Day 69-Austin Junction, OR Day 70- Dayville, OR Day 71-Ochoco Lake, OR Day 72- Sisters,…
Read moreDay 65 Experimental Eating.: New Meadows, ID to Cambridge, ID
51 miles (82 km) – Total so far: 3,594 miles (5,784 km) I had been fearing another scorcher of a day today,…
Read moreDay 64: Dangerously Hot: White Bird, ID to New Meadows, ID
Part 1 105 degrees. I wouldn’t have believed it if you had told me. Not heat index… three different thermometers: two at…
Read moreDay 63: Cheating the heat: Kooskia, ID to White Bird, ID
44 miles (71 km) – Total so far: 3,483 miles (5,605 km) Part 1 The mounting heat is becoming enough of a…
Read moreDay 62: Beautiful: Clearwater National Forest, ID to Kooskia, ID
86 miles (138 km) – Total so far: 3,439 miles (5,535 km) America, I have important news for you. Idaho has been…
Read moreDay 61: Ascending in the footsteps of Lewis & Clark.: Missoula, MT to Clearwater National Forest, ID
Idaho Day 61- Clearwater NF, ID Day 62- Kooskia, ID Day 63-White Bird, ID Day 64-New Meadows, ID Day 65-Cambridge, ID Day…
Read moreDay 59: Zeroing in on the ACA: Hamilton, MT to Missoula, MT
Last night’s dinner was curtailed by an impending storm that never broke. The wind dashed the tent about noisily, and the dinnertime…
Read moreDay 58: Young goats.: Wisdom, MT to Hamilton, MT
74 miles (119 km) – Total so far: 3,238 miles (5,211 km) The sober beginning of our trip today was a visit…
Read moreDay 57: eXcellent riding: Dillon, MT to Wisdom, MT
66 miles (106 km) – Total so far: 3,164 miles (5,092 km) In the states of Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming the…
Read moreDay 56: Wonderful start and Wonderful end, but skip the middle.: Ennis, MT to Dillon, MT
74 miles (119 km) – Total so far: 3,098 miles (4,986 km) The town of Ennis treated us right. We enjoyed everything…
Read moreDay 55: Vivid Landscapes: West Yellowstone, MT to Ennis, MT
72 miles (116 km) – Total so far: 3,024 miles (4,867 km) I set off solo today to spend much of the…
Read moreDay 54: Underrated Fumaroles: Grant Village Yellowstone NP, WY to West Yellowstone, MT
Montana Day 54-West Yellowstone, MT Day 55-Ennis, MT Day 56-Dillon, MT Day 57-Wisdom, MT Day 58- Hamilton, MT Day 59-Missoula, MT Day…
Read moreDay 53: Touring the National Parks: Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park to Grant Village, Yellowstone National Park.
57 miles (92 km) – Total so far: 2,897 miles (4,662 km) Sadly, this morning I left the Tetons. But, they gave…
Read moreDay 52: Snake River Brewing and other good times.
45 miles (72 km) – Total so far: 2,840 miles (4,571 km) My day “off” in the Tetons was relaxing, but predestined…
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