One of the things most people don’t know about me is that I am a dyed in the wool Frank Zappa fan and have been for 50 years. He was able to find the best musicians from all genres, create a band around them, and write music around the specific talents of those band members that brought the best out of them and the music was diverse, defying categorization.… Read More The Present Day Composers Refuse To Die
Between the two Snipe regattas in February and March, I did a 1000 mile bikepacking “circumnavigation” of Florida. In the last few years, I’ve tried to do some kind bikepacking trip this time of year, mostly to avoid the cold at home, get in some great Z2 base training, see some different part of the… Read More Florida Circumnavigation
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
A 2025 Sailing Season Wrapup.… Read More 2025 Sailing Season
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
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