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Cycling or Rock Climbing?

The Socorro, NM website has several really neat looking mountain bike trails listed on their site.  The site isn’t the most intuitive to navigate but it does work once you get used to it.  I’ve been very interested in riding the “Barite Mine and Box Canyon” trail and I recently flew over it to get… [Read More]

Involuntary Servitude

Do you know what “Involuntary Servitude” means? It’s one of those terms that doesn’t get used much these days.  It used to be fairly common. We mostly know it as “Slavery”.  From  TheFreeDictionary.com, it is defined as “the condition of an individual who works for another individual against his or her will as a result… [Read More]

Clipless

I did it!  I went clipless! I’ve been using toe clips and they have worked just fine for me. They are cheap and simple. For the type of riding that I did – they worked fine. However; for the type of riding that I do now – they weren’t all that great. I mentioned this… [Read More]

Lobos vs Broncos

I was invited to attend the University of New Mexico Lobos football game against the Boise State Broncos. So, off I went. I’m not much of a fan of crowds so this type of event is usually stressful. Once we got to our seats, I was very happy to see that there were plenty of… [Read More]

Negrito Landing Video

I’ve written about the Negrito backcountry airstrip (0NM7) before and have also camped there. It is a great place.   The following video is of a recent landing there. Three of us flew our airplanes to the Me-Own backcountry strip for some mountain biking and two of us decided to zip over to Negrito to eat our… [Read More]

Me-Own Backcountry Flight/Ride

This past weekend I had the opportunity to combine flying and cycling – it was great fun! The plan was to land at the Me-Own backcountry airstrip (1NM0) and then ride our bikes to the nearby Black Canyon campground and creek. We simply wanted to do a bit of exploring. The obvious problem with this… [Read More]

39DollarGlasses Take 2

I reviewed 39DollarGlasses.com about a year ago here.  That time, it was a prescription sunglasses purchase. My eye doctor said I needed new glasses (something about getting old…) so I started looking. The cost in the local stores nearly makes me faint.  The price for the frame alone is always shocking, throw the lens in… [Read More]

El Malpais Ride

What an amazing site.  I’ve seen the lava flows from the air but up close and personal, they look very different. The National Park Service website describes the area as follows… “The primeval black basalt terrain of El Malpais was created by volcanic forces over the past million years. Molten lava spread out over the… [Read More]

Too Positive

How do you avoid being TOO positive without being TOO negative?? I surely do not know. I have an “advisor” that is extremely careful to never guess at or predict anything but the worst case.  I understand this.  It is a very effective way to always be right or to have a “positive” outcome –… [Read More]

Click

It was driving me nuts. A click – nothing terribly significant, not even all that loud but I could not find it. It only occurred while I was pedaling. Coasting sounded great.  It was not exactly a consistent pattern but it was fairly regular.  Hmm… isn’t a regular pattern the same as a consistent pattern???  Moving… [Read More]