Restoration

One of my favorite writers, the auto journalist Peter Egan, wrote this: “One thing I've discovered over the past three years on these short weekend trips is that the lakes don't get exponentially bluer as you get farther from home.” He wrote this in his Cycle World Leanings column many years ago. He was obviously … Continue reading Restoration →

20 Years

20 years ago today. Wow! But, let’s start three days earlier… It was midafternoon on my second day of travel from home. A cold, bleary, Ohio winter day. What early January generally brings to the Midwest. I was traveling under the final underpass before my exit off I75. It was Sunday and I had to … Continue reading 20 Years →

Convergence

Convergence: the act of converging and especially moving toward union or uniformity… I wrote the following in 2020. Since then, the idea and reality of convergence has only grown for me. First, let’s go back to 2020 and what I originally wrote on the subject. Have you ever been driving down an empty road, not … Continue reading Convergence →

Miscellaneous Ramblings

Perfection. What is it? Do we know it when we see it? How is it measured? I’m not sure I have the answers to any of those questions but I do know last week was filled with near perfection. Let’s start with Monday. I took a half day off from work to do a mountain … Continue reading Miscellaneous Ramblings →

Los Alamos

Several months ago we went on a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. We hadn’t been there in a number of years and we had never driven there via State Highway 285, a road that goes from Denver south until it ends near Big Bend National Park in Texas. We thought it would be … Continue reading Los Alamos →