I don’t typically discuss my day job on this blog because it is really about what I do in my “leisure time” and I prefer to talk about bikes, boats and urbanism, which are my current extracurricular passions. But I had this great opportunity for a retrospective of my career at NASA and it was been a fantastic ride!… Read More A Break From My Regularly Schedule Program
In June, I had a free ranging discussion with Scott MacMullan about development, Strong Towns, and biking and the incentives that drive them on his ‘Annapolis Podcast’. I really enjoy these kinds of conversations.… Read More Alex Pline on Pricey Luxury Condos, Parking Lots, and Cycling in Annapolis
A lot was different than usual but the same people were still at the top of the scoresheet. Not my finest hour, but was great to be racing again.… Read More 2020 Colonial Cup: Something Different but Kinda the Same
This Objet d’art is depicting exactly what is wrong with this development pattern and the sprawl purveyor doesn’t even know it.… Read More Oh, The Irony…
Making the best lemonade from COVID-19 lemons, I did a full up test of some bikepacking equipment at a local park.… Read More Excellent Adventure 3.0 – Beta 1
Public comment is a prominent feature of Annapolis City Council meetings but how can we do it reasonably in the remote COVID-19 pandemic world? Of course I have an option.… Read More Testimony About Testimony, How Meta
My personal options about ADUs in Annapolis as submitted in public testimony to the City Council.… Read More Accessory Dwelling Units In Annapolis
I was initially going to title this piece “Thoughts On The End Of The 2019 Cyclocross Season”, but as I started to recap the season in my head for this wrapup, I realized what I love about cyclocross transcends that specific discipline of the sport and is really just a manifestation of what I love about riding bikes in general.… Read More The Art of Riding A Bike
The Strong Towns Annapolis group was pleased to host a stop on the Strong America Tour on October 10, 2019. We are a small but passionate group of Strong Towns acolytes that are sharing the message in Annapolis, Maryland. While every place is different, I hope sharing the journey we have been on will help inspire others to embark on their own journey to making their place a strong town. … Read More The Journey to Strong Towns Annapolis
Yep, you read this right: we did it again, an encore to the Excellent Adventure 2 earlier in 2019. It was a four day trip around northeastern PA using primarily – but with a LOT of holes – the Delaware & Lehigh and Schuylkill River Trails.… Read More 2019 Excellent Adventure – Encore Edition
