From Ann Arbor to the Cadillac Mountain in Maine The ensemble The cast consisted of two old timers who were no strangers to ambitious road trips. This time, though, we had a third member who made her debut and walked away with the best performer award. She was my buddy’s stiffly sprung and delightfully compact[…]
2 men and her It’s that time of the year again; when adventure beckons and the pioneer in me awakens. This time we head east, very east. As east can east can go! My friend, his German beauty and I plan to traverse endless miles towards the Acadia National Park in Maine. En route and[…]
United Words of America. (Sorry Alaska and Hawaii) I can vouch for the niceness of the number 8 purely because it is even. I had, however, vouched not to remember this day. It is, after all, an anniversary of some sort. More importantly it is a blatant reminder that time flies much too quickly regardless[…]
Sand in my shoes (Photo Courtesy : Praveen Chavannavar) The legs feel like lead. There is a slight pinging pain in your left knee. A remnant of an old injury is making a comeback at the worst of times. The strides feel out of sync. I feel like I am stressing my right leg more.[…]
If I had a choice, I would swap any kind of emotional pain with a straight forward physical pain. Give me an injury over a heart break. Give me a sprain over a lost friend. Worst-case, give me a fracture over failure. Sadly, I don’t ever have that choice and quite likely I might end[…]
As the months and years stack up I realize that it is harder to determine when was the last time I did something for the first time and actually considered it worthwhile beyond an insignificant statistic. So when a chance came by for me to go sailing I decided to jump on it right away.[…]