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Category Archive: 2011

I wanted to get one last ride in this year. I had been looking forward to this day. So, even though the morning fog blanketed the city, and surrounding neighborhoods, I met up with my ridding buddy, and brother, Don Taylor at around ten. I am sure that people looking at us, riding down the …

This has to stop happening! The minute I stepped out of my cabin this morning, it started raining. I had literally looked out of the window. It was cloudy, but dry. Then, bam! It starts raining. ‘No big deal’, I thought, ‘that’s why I stayed at this camp site, so that I could take the …

Yesterday I saw sunlight for about 30 seconds. It was truly a black and white day. But like any lover of black and white photography knows, the combination of black, white, gray tonalities, and geometry can create a beautiful picture. Sometimes, things are better in black and white, rather than color. I can not vouch …

With over 1,100 miles behind me, I am sitting at my campsite in Hillsborough State Park, in Florida. My arrival into St. Andrews yesterday was quite late, after a long, slow and partly disappoint ride. The morning did actually start out quite nicely, leaving the New Orleans area, and shortly afterwards leaving the interstate towards …

“So, what brings you to Cajun country?” Those words were uttered as I looked up from my table at Micky’s Family Restaurant in Kendall, Louisiana, by a young man, who stood by my table. This was the second encounter with a curious passerby in this establishment. The answer should have been, “Divine appointments”. Instead, I …

It is now past 10:30 in Houston. I just finished watching ‘Remember the Titans’ for the nth time, and like an old marine I once knew, a tears rolled down my eyes, just like the first time I saw it. This movie always inspires. People coming together, because of the strength of their character, at …

Here I am, the day before the scheduled departure for this journey, this trip, not having packed a thing. Why? The flutter of the wing of a moth, across the Atlantic, off the coast of Africa, and the sneeze of a wildebeest were the initiators of what became tropical depression #13, and is now Tropical …