Wow! It’s been two years since I took my trip to Costa Rica, and I’m just getting around to writing this article. Talk about procrastination! To be fair to myself, I hadn’t even started the blog yet at that point. But once I had started it, I kept meaning to write this and show a few pictures.

This trip was my first international trip, alone, traveling light and simple, not speaking the local language and with very little planning. Just the way I want to travel! But this would be the test of whether it was a style of traveling that I could handle. Instead of describing my trip in detail, I’m going to touch on points as to how this journey shaped my future travels. More »

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January 20th, 2010 – A birthday drawing for Briana. She wanted a purple soccer ball, with blue flames (she said she told me this, but I didn’t hear ) So instead I drew a blue and purple soccer ball, with regular flames. Opps!

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February 22nd, 2010 – For Aleah’s 11th birthday, she picked an old picture of herself holding Neko. Although her birthday isn’t until August, I needed to get started on this early since I won’t be here for the 3 months right up to her birthday. I really like how it turned out.

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I am writing this post from my Blackberry phone using the WordPress application. Just seeing how easy it is

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I really like the idea of reflecting back over the last year and analyzing if it met your expectations and if what you see can help you to steer your coming days a little better.
These are my reflections for the year 2009.

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I was reading an article today online from The New Yorker about why Americans are so fat. I definitely agree that the general population is large and getting larger and many people can be considered obese, however, in the second paragraph they “roughly define” obesity as being measured by a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 27 or greater.

This is about as helpful as diagnosing personality disorders with the use of horoscopes! The BMI charts are worthless as they don’t take body composition (percentage of fat, muscle, bone, water-weight, etc) into account in any way, and instead just rely on a height vs weight divisor.

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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 – I am really enjoying the relaxed atmosphere of this part of the country. I want to say “again” because it feels so much like the Pacific Northwest. The trees are lush and green and thickly line the road. There is a feeling of life and vibrancy emanating from the woods as I ride through.

Because I’ve got a possible CS up in Burlington VT tonight, I am heading in that general direction through the back roads of New Hampshire and Vermont. There is no specific destination in mind today other than Burlington by evening, so I’m off adventuring.

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** I wrote this back in August of last year, and never got around to finishing my journal of my trip. I will endevour to complete the articles again… **

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 – It is so NICE to get out of the city and the traffic I have been bothered by for almost the whole east coast!! I feel free and easy. The weight lifts off your soul and you relax into your life again. I wonder at the people living permanently in those areas… how do they do it? I suppose it’s mostly my personality that just doesn’t deal well with the lack of freedom and nature to connect with. To my mind it seemed that the feeling of my surroundings changed instantly when I entered Maine.

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Ultimately all computer access and all the programs you use is about your data. Getting to it, saving it, finding it easily, and modifying it. The same holds true for physical files like papers as it does for computer files. But paper files can easily get out of hand and worthless since the information you might require is so hard to find when you need it.

Thus, I decided to go 98% paperless. Everything that comes in that I want to keep, I scan and file into my on-line storage. It is put into a very organized folder structure with a well named and dated filename, so that finding it is easy when it’s needed. The files can also be emailed, or printed out whenever I want and I can access them from anywhere with an Internet connection. More »

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My Hayabusa along the St Joe River

I just love my Suzuki Hayabusa! Not only is it an incredibly sexy looking machine, but it’s also a marvel of engineering.

I’ll explain where my passion for this bike comes from…

How many other machines can be: purchased for $10,000; ridden at 200 mph; easily take corners at over 100 mph and more than a 45 degree angle; run constantly and truly for many hours while the engine is revving from 1000 to 12000 rpm and doing speeds from 20 to 180 mph; and go over 32,000 miles with all the internal workings of the engine in perfect alignment…?

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