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Point Bonita

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Quick post…. A few pics from our visit to Point Bonita two weeks ago are up. We were lucky and had wonderfully good, warm weather. It was a little windy, but not bad at all, and definitely nothing you could complain about for mid-November on the Bay. It’s a wonderful area, and we got to […]

Lost in the Wilds

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In the 1997 movie The Edge, Anthony Hopkins plays an eccentric billionaire (is there any other kind?) bookworm who is stranded in the Canadian wilderness with Alec Baldwin (poor guy) after their small plane goes down. Lucky for him, he’s in the process of reading a book called “Lost in the Wilds” which he uses […]

Random Updates

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As promised in the Stanford Museum post, here’s the (very) small gallery. Supply your own captions. 🙂 I attended Bud Gawlik’s memorial service at Henry Cowell State Park. Despite the sadness of the occasion, it was a perfect event with fun remembrances of a special person. It’s just how I’d want to be remembered. I’m […]

Overdue Update

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Gee, who would ever expect a blog might go an entire month without an update? It seems so unlikely; how often can such a thing happen? 😉 One reason for the lack of updates (aka “excuse time”) has been the lack of interesting things to report. We hit a string of weather that was pretty […]