After the World Masters, since we were already on the other side of the world, we took a trip to Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia. Of course everyone knows Patagonia is beautiful, but I was frankly unprepared for how spectacularly beautiful it was. Everywhere you look there is a post card view!… Read More Torres del Paine Patagonia
The 2025 edition of the Snipe World Masters Championships was our first opportunity to visit South America. The regatta was held in Frutillar in the Lakes region about 600 miles south of Santiago.… Read More 2025 Snipe World Masters in Chile
This year’s cross season went very well and I finished off the 2025 season with a high note on the podium, my first ever! My 2025 season was only seven races. I had hoped to do a full season of 14 races, basically one race a weekend during the fall. But my bikepacking trip and… Read More 2025 Cyclocross Season
Another “OPB” opportunity came up at the last minute this fall for a delivery from Annapolis to Marsh Harbour in the Bahamas. It was a fun five day trip with a very spicy Gulf Stream crossing.… Read More Feast Or Famine To The Bahamas
THE PROJECT is riding every street in Annapolis. It’s been a great way to truly understand the development patterns and styles throughout the city and the resulting character of neighborhoods. It was a total of about 130 miles of streets.… Read More THE PROJECT: Every Street Annapolis
I hope you enjoyed my 2025 Ignite Annapolis talk “Need or Greed” about the competing priorities in the housing market as to whether housing is considered a fundamental human need (so we want costs to go down) or as an investment product (so we want values to go up). Unfortunately, you can’t really have it both ways. This is the current housing crisis we find ourselves in.… Read More Ignite Annapolis! (2025)
After dreaming about and planning a bikepacking route from Annapolis to Cleveland for over 10 years, I finally did it. 600 miles in 8 days.… Read More WTF Cleveland, Indeed
In 1994 Lisa competed in the first ever Womens World Championships in Yokohama and we used that trip as our honeymoon having been married six month earlier; Lisa, me and her crew! After 31 years we returned to Japan for the 16th Snipe Womens World Championship in Enoshima.… Read More Konnichiwa Snipe Japan!
Continuing the family tradition of packing 10 pounds of crap into a 5 pound bag, I jammed the Strong Towns National Gathering and a bikepacking trip in New England between a busy week of Snipe sailing and an Annapolis regatta .… Read More Tour Du Family And Friends 2025
The 2025 Colonial Cup and US Nationals was a fast paced week of Snipe sailing. We planned this again as a circuit so travelers would have two events back to back. For the sailors in the northeast, Colonial Cup would be a great midway stop on the way to Nationals in Atlanta, and for the… Read More 2025 Snipe Week
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