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28 Miles

I’m sure your well aware… I’m cycling for fitness, fun, and to reclaim my life. Know what??  I am making progress!!  I’m certainly having fun and getting into the ‘competition with self’ aspect.  I may even ride in a local “challenge” event to see what that feels like… more on that later. The thing that… [Read More]

Mountainbiking Video

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It seems the more things I try, the more I appreciate. A lot of things look easy – or at least our mind tricks us into thinking they should be easy. However; that is usually not the way it works.  Putting together a “good” home video fits perfectly in this category for me. I figured… [Read More]

Lance’s Predicament

Like everyone, I’ve read of what the USADA has done to Lance Armstrong.  Of course, they don’t have the power that they think they have but that is a different topic. I think it is disgusting.  No, not Lance.  The USADA (U.S. Anti-Doping Agency). I don’t know what Lance did or didn’t do. Frankly, I… [Read More]

Rio Salado River

Ready for some low level sight-seeing?!?! The following is a video of the Rio Salado river in New Mexico.  I know, it isn’t much of a river. However; you have to remember that this is the desert.  Most of the time, there is no visible water. We’ve had a lot of afternoon thunderstorms lately so… [Read More]

Godspeed Neil

I lost one of my greatest hero’s this weekend – Neil Armstrong. I spent my early years being TOTALLY in awe of aviation and space. There was no doubt, I would be an astronaut one day.  Obviously, Neil was the figure head behind NASA and the space program for many years. However; there were many other… [Read More]

Newly Hatched RV-12

I was out flying the other day and a friend with her freshly signed off Vans RV-12 aircraft was out flying. I took a quick bit of air-to-air video and a few photos.  The plane is great – the photos are ok – the video is far from sellar. Sorry… Thought I’d post it in case some… [Read More]

Bosque Ride

This past weekend was a great one for cycling!  I had two of my best rides ever.  Saturday is posted here. Sunday, I decided that I needed to change things up.  My local routes are getting a bit boring and Sunday offered some time to try something new. I drove my bike (as in, transported… [Read More]

Meandering

This past Saturday, around mid-morning, I took a nice 22.3 mile ride (or, what I thought was 22.3 miles). It was sort of a meandering ride north up thru Los Lunas and then back south towards home with a big loop at the south end to bump up the mileage.  It was 70 degrees when I… [Read More]

New Mexico Sights

The following is video of a recent flight. Most of it was taken southwest of Albuquerque and south of Grants, NM. Key points include Petoch Butte (2:15) and Enchanted Mesa (3:38). New Mexico offers some spectacular views and these are but a few of them.  Of course, in my opinion, our country (the United States)… [Read More]

Flying Emma

I met a gentleman named Emma (Emmanuel) who is from Uganda.  He had just arrived in the USA to continue his college education and is staying with some friends.  He is 29 years old, very intelligent and very interesting to talk with. As you can imagine, his perspective is very different than ours.  We are… [Read More]