My daughter "Kaite" and I have started mountain biking together of late.  It's not our first time, but we've gotten a bit more serious, and are trying to ride regularly.  She's training for high school sports as she'll be a freshman at Truckee High this year, and I'm riding because I still eat like I play high school football. So this morning she throws down that she's tired of, "eating dust Continue Reading

It’s hard to turn anywhere or to any media outlet without seeing or hearing bad news about the economy. Yesterday T. Boone Pickens (he’s a go-bo zillionaire) testified before Congress that if drastic steps were not taken soon, oil would reach $300 a barrel within 10 years. Today, CNBC reported that we may only be half way through this housing slump. Fannie May and Freddie Mac will likely need a Continue Reading

In a previous post, I talked about how blessed I was to be writing about the pristine Tahoe summer time weather. I'm still awfully blessed, but that post also talked about the chance of thunder showers. Those thunder clouds sparked the lightning caused fires that have plagued California since. The Yuba-Complex fires as I believe they're being called are just to the west of the Pacific Crest Continue Reading