19 May 2012 Yorktown, Virginia. This is where it will all officially begin, where Gina and the Atlantic Ocean will meet, smile for the cameras, and maybe crack a bottle of champagne across someone’s front tire. I dunno – is that how you christen a monumental bike ride? Anyway, that’s tomorrow. Only Gina couldn’t wait …
18 May 2012 Today was Bike to Work day. This didn’t mean so much to Gina, who has no work to bike to, nor to me, who works from home. Nevertheless, Gina celebrated the occasion with a free lunch for cyclists provided by the local Williamsburg community center, while I embraced the concept by stopping …
17 May 2012 Maybe the world needs more parades. Not that I’ve ever been a devoted fan. The clowns make me nervous, sitting on a hard concrete curb gets my bum sore and dirty, and these days there doesn’t even seem to be much free candy being tossed about. Maybe I don’t make them a …
Someone is about to leave on another grand adventure while someone else is staying home. Any guesses? Let me give you a hint. The first someone has taken to calling herself “semi-retired” while the second someone is still adjusting to sitting behind a desk all day. One would think after six months that desk-jockey life …
I am in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania on a business trip. I told my Mom I was coming here and her email reply was too funny not to share: How are things in “Blue Bell? That’s an interesting name for a city….I looked it up on the internet….it used to be called “Pigeontown”…no wonder they changed …
Friday, 17 February 2012 It’s been awhile since I approached a weekend with such anticipation. It’s not that our plans for the weekend are of the over-the-moon special, monumentally colossal, we’re taking another year off variety (although that would certainly be an idea worth considering) but instead that since returning to the 9 to 5 …
I came home not too long ago to find this parked on our deck: It seems that someone has been missing our Sydney Nanna Trolley and decided to take matters into her own hands, borrowing one from our local QFC. I meant to blog about the Nanna Trolley when we were living in Oz and …
So 2011 was a rough year for some people – Herman Cain, Kim Kardashian, Charlie Sheen – but for Gina and I, it was a year to remember. Thousands of miles in the air, hundreds of miles on the bicycles, tens of miles on treks and trails, and countless good memories of people and places. …
12 Dec 2011 I quit cold turkey. It wasn’t an easy choice, screwing that cap back on and stuffing the bottle deep into my duffel, sandwiched between the bag of dirty laundry and my well-worn sneakers, out of sight and out of mind. But it was the only way. Three days had turned into three …
28 Nov 2011 I’m back in New Jersey for more training. It’s only been a bit more than a week since I was last here, but nevertheless, things have changed. For starters, the neon N atop the hotel has burned out, reducing this already a shade-shy-of-tacky commercial park icon to something closer to just plain …