Allen’s Great Adventure (A.G.A.)

Allen, one of my team mates came up with a great challenge. I’m not sure how long he has been thinking about this but it sounded like great fun, a real challenge. Early spring, May in MN, approx. 150 mile bike ride in one day, Mpls MN to Duluth MN. How hard could it be? […]

Teaser for August 2022 for me, more to come

Plans are in the making. Airline tickets are purchased. Tourist Visa application is done waiting approval. (Maybe should have gotten that before buying plane tickets eh?) The new TI gravel bike is built and tested, a few times. Fit and finish seem good. Lighter bike for travel and just because I don’t want to ride […]

What should we do with 2022?

It’s only the 4th of January so we have some time to change that resolution that wasn’t going to hold anyhow into an idea to make 2022 something to be proud of? Well at least something to be better than 2021. Stop thinking about what was and start figuring out what will be. There are […]

It’s been a while

Last winter and early spring were down times for a lot of obvious reasons. It seemed easier for me to spend time on this blog then even though the posts I was writing were less than pleasant. The world in general and my local area in particular were and are going through significant political and […]

Cycling 2021

A start to another unusual year of cycling for me. Still no velodrome locally, other kinds of bike racing is happening more virtually than in a group setting, although that is slowly changing. For now the early season is filled with daily coaching plans from my coach in Glasgow, Robert Ferguson, Zoom trainer rides hosted […]

I Challenge You…

To question the basis of your entire education. Propaganda I learned at an early age was the work of political machines trying to undermine and destroy the republic, USA, we live in and we would give anything to uphold. What we didn’t learn was that propaganda was the insidious adjustment to the knowledge we were […]

2020 ending as we scream for something new and good

Reflection seems to be the norm for year end musings. 2020 maybe more so than past years. Not generally something I’ve done in the past. Being the generally positive, looking to the future kind of person I am, normally I spend a little time on the past and then start to look to the future. […]

Thought for today

Find your passion and it will return to you the passion to learn

Return to Sailing in 2019

2019, early spring, only a few months after my official retirement from an auto service business that lasted 38 plus years. I’m back to rediscovering what I enjoyed about sailing in the early 80’s. Then, I had just started my auto service business and was just getting interested in cycling, but sailing was taking a […]