With mixed feelings, we’re back home from our week on the big island of Hawaii. It’s nice to be home in some ways, but we really enjoyed our stay in Hawaii and we’d have happily spent more time there. It’s going to take some time to digest things, sort through photos, and put together some […]

Aloha from the southernmost point of the United States!

I have a very welcome, too-brief diversion from the current financial stress coming up in the form of a trip to the Big Island of Hawaii. We’re extremely fortunate in that it’s almost an all-expense paid trip, as we’d never have been able to afford it right now otherwise. Unfortunately, I can’t bring the Jeep […]

Spring had just officially begun so it must be time for the annual trek up to the top of El Toro in Morgan Hill. Joe and Antony were each hiking elsewhere this year but the “Hillside Stragglers” hiking crew was game for it! I made it clear from the start that we we would head […]