My life cycling, traveling, and more, living life as much as I can
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 […]
Read More I Challenge You…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. […]
Read More 2020 ending as we scream for something new and goodFind your passion and it will return to you the passion to learn
Read More Thought for todayIt’s been about 5 days past the USA’s 2020 national election and most of the US and the world has acknowledged that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won, and Donald Trump will be replaced in January of 2021. Trump, as expected, refuses to believe it and those officials looking to profit from staying attached […]
Read More Where do we go from here, as the United States of America?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 […]
Read More Return to Sailing in 2019If you want to read the whole story head over to the menu on the right side of the home page and click on the Saturday description under the Sailing main topic. Below is the quick summary of the last day on the water motoring/travel day. Saturday was the last travel day of my 6-day […]
Read More Saturday, Last Travel Day Summary 10.3.20Go to the menu on the right and look for the page about Friday at Afton for a story about my Afton day. Not the most exciting day of the journey up the river but necessary. Part of the reason for this river trip is not only to get to a closer to home winter […]
Read More Friday mast down day in Afton 10.2.20Tuesday, 9.29.20, was the start of my planned boat trip from Pepin Marina in Pepin Wi to Watergate Marina in St Paul via Afton MN on the St Criox to use the gin pole there and get my mast down for the winter. I’ve been adding daily details in the MENU area to the right […]
Read More Sailing, fall trip to winter the boat 9.29.20Just realizing that under normal circumstances next week I would be in Manchester UK for my 11th World Masters Track Championships events. It’s 2020, I shouldn’t have to explain the reason I’m not there. Like most, I’m trying to find a new way to find value and purpose in life when things are so unreasonably not […]
Read More Instead of Manchester 2020A story my coach asked for, careful what you ask for My first memory of a bike experience was when I was quite young, maybe not even 10 years old. Youngest of three brothers in the family, we had one bike. It as a classic old chrome fendered 3 speed Schwinn that was bought probably […]
Read More A Story, a search, fall of 2020