Curitiba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjhSon0Ltw When you clean one corner of your house, unless you take the clutter completely away….unless you figure out how to completely remove it….only if you don’t move it into another corner of another room….only….someone’s going to notice the new … Continue reading

I like trains….I like bikes.

Not everyone I know is very supportive of the Rails to Trails idea. I know people who say that we can’t tear up the tracks…that when Armageddon comes, we’ll want to get the trains back up and running to carry … Continue reading

bending some strings….sweetly

I used to go to something called the “hurt book sale” at Rich’s when I lived in Atlanta. They sold remaindered books….slightly damaged books….books of limited interest. It was my kind of book sale….bunches of cheap books. When I was … Continue reading

Dubai! Where’s that water come from? Who are these people? How many questions do I have?

So….I’m wondering how to get some extra money to rent a giant dumpster again….so I can continue to clean out the little bit of property (comparatively “little”) we bought up the road from where we live now. I’m thinking about … Continue reading

IT’S DUBAI!! IT’S DUBAI!!

Forget Amsterdam….check this video out!! Dubai is supposed to be pretty hot….but look at these guys riding the bicycles!! Lifestyles of the Rich and Two-Wheeled. Here’s another one….who would have thought that there’d be so many bike shops in Dubai? … Continue reading

David Wilcox….in concert.

The first time I heard David Wilcox, I was at a friend’s house in the mountains up in Weaverville, enjoying dinner….wondering who we were listening to on their little boombox….who it was who was playing music inside that little plastic … Continue reading

the kid at the pond

I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to this song….but never this version. This version is from a concert that David Wilcox gave just a little way up the road from our house….at a retreat center called Tigg’s Pond….this … Continue reading

the receiver

This isn’t really about Mother’s Day, even though that’s what today is…… Maybe it will be by the time I’ve had my coffee and sat here in the quiet for a while, I don’t really know. Maybe it’s really all … Continue reading

Another Rob Penn Video

Here’s a talk that Rob Penn gave a while ago. Rob Penn is the fellow who did the video yesterday about building his perfect bike….who visited all the bike part factories to see how the parts were made….and who took … Continue reading