Here's the challenge: 25 days of solid training in February.  For training I will count any day in the gym, a day of hiking, a FULL day of diving (one night dive doesn't count), or more t...

Well, that was a lot of work.  The whole concept of re-doing my apartment seemed a little daunting at first, but I really wasn't expecting it to be quite as comprehensive a task as it wound u...

Goofy as it sounds, the mini challenge for January is to clean my apartment.  Dive Emperor Brett and Buddy Rich can attest that my apartment isn't a dump or a mess, but there are niggling thi...

On Friday, July 3rd, I hiked to the summit of Mount San Gorgonio, the highest peak in Southern California.  I followed that up the next day by diving at the site of Old Marineland, south of the P...

Despite the original difficulties that arose with the massive swell and wave conditions on that first attempt out on the Spectre, I was able to finish up my Advanced dives a few weeks later on that sa...

The idea of undertaking a longer trip, more than just a weekend, had been percolating for some time.  I wondered if I could do it; I wondered if my bike could do it.  Two days of holiday res...

In the previous month, I had already been on sport touring trips to Arizona and Death Valley on my 2000 Triumph Sprint ST, so taking a quick trip up the coast to Morro Bay shouldn't have been a bi...

I like telescopes, particularly the big ones.  The first one I ever was able to get up close to was the observatory complex on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawai'i and I was hooked.  I j...

With all the media coverage of the "100 year bloom” at Death Valley, I and Robyn decided that we would be fools to miss out.  The Sprint had performed marvelously despite both fate a...

I hadn’t really been to Germany in a decade.  In fact, since 1991, I had only gone over for a couple of days here and there for funerals and I had never been with Robyn; this was going to...