June 2011

29 Jun 2011

Surprises

No force is more fundamental in travel than the unexpected. Like all great undertakings, travel consists in the delicate knitting of will and chance. Excursions require extensive preparation, constant study--of routes, landscape, maps, resources, etc.-- and determination to see ideas to fruition. Despite this work,...

22 Jun 2011

Bayside

A pulse of cars and bicycles flows and rests on the slanting street beside a North Beach café. The streets are dressed with beatnik memorabilia safely settled behind the same museum glass that holds the lanterns of Chinatown and the Italian flags that lead up...

15 Jun 2011

Homecoming

California means a lot different things to different people. For some, it is a land of incessant sunshine where Hollywood icons stroll the streets en route to the latest scandal or maybe the governor's mansion-- or both. For others, it is a bastion of hedonism...

09 Jun 2011

Beginning

Great adventures do not begin or end. They are grafted into the eternal so seamlessly that vestiges of their temporal nature become buried beneath the bark of lore and legend. Like great relationships or romantic love, their inceptions are shrouded with a feeling of immediate...

05 Jun 2011

Pre-Game

Howdy, sports fans! Greetings from Los Angeles. Everything is set for the Carbon Sabbath to start tomorrow. I'll spend the morning at Thad's (see www.thads.org or the Home Church page under my Bio tab above) and then set off for a gentle ride along the coast...