Swede meet Cajun food, French swamp people with one of the best cuisines known to man, meet Swede
Maya gets her drink on
Tamarancho Redux - I realized during this ride that I had been riding Tamarancho (a mtb only park owned by the Boy Scouts) for ten years... Seems like yesterday, seems like a lifetime.
Mountain Bikes Must Stay on Single Track - gotta love regulations that favor your favorite activity...
Seen : I spent a Saturday riding with Dan Kasin, a long lost friend from back in the day - we ran across this amazing art installation in Marin. For scale - notice the bike wheel in the left side of the pic. An odd scene all around as this sits in a large patch off concrete, next to an abandoned school...
That's Dan. I think that one indication of real friendship is the ability to pick up where you left off. Dan and I haven't seen each other in eight years - we picked it right up where we left off.
Quick internet research reveals : The 30 foot-high sculpture is by artist Robert Ellison and it is called "Four Times Daily." He originally built it in 1978 where it debuted at the San Francisco Civic Plaza (photo below). It was then moved to its current location in the 80s. The school was turned into the China Camp Design Center but that is gone too. The only thing that remains is Ellison's massive sculpture.
There's a pine cone lover in my life - she knows who she is... Pic taken at the top of Mt. Diablo. After all of these years, coming and going from the Bay, I finally rode to the top of Mt. Diablo. 14 miles, 3700 ft. of elevation gain, 3 hours... nothing technical besides riding the steepest fire roads conceivable.
