Dreaming of a Life Less Ordinary

  “Never Ignore Your Instinct And You Can Always Push Harder. I Get Inspired When I Think About People Who Have Pushed Their Bodies To The Limit” – Rachel Atherton “Pain Is Still The Friend That Always Tells Me The Truth” – Chris Froome " Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride " President John F. Kennedy I told the Beav on the way to Bike the Bridges that I thought I might be a masochist.  By the end of this blog, you might just agree with me.  For, I have ridden the mighty Moon Worm, yes, but I don't want to stop there.  I want to climb higher, and father.  The hills call to me, asking me to come up.   It can't be coincidence that while sitting in my doctors office he would encourage me to ride up a huge hill and that while we were standing at Bike the Bridges Beerfest that same hill would be discussed as a potential next challenge.   I think we call that in my experience KA.   The truth is I want to push myself father and father on my bike.   The tru

  The Evil Empire (David, Emily, Billy b, Mark) "Hands, touching hands Reaching out, touching me, touching you Sweet Caroline Good times never seemed so good I've been inclined To believe they never would"    - Neil Diamond, Sweet Caroline " Boys and things that come by the dozen That ain't nothin' but drugstore lovin' Hey little thing, let me light your candle 'Cause, mama, I'm sure hard to handle now, gets around"   - Black Crowes, Hard to Handle  Part Deux:  Beerfest Once David aka the Beav and I finished we went to the car and put the bikes up, freshened up a bit (Me spraying us with Axe Body Spray), and put some shorts over our cycle shorts.  One can not simply ripe off their bike shorts in the middle of downtown Benicia , unless one wants to go to jail, and lets be honest, I am to pretty for jail.  After putting up our equipment , and our whores bath, we walked back to the Beerfest.   David and I might have been done, but the rest of th

Bike the Bridges 2022 "I have ridden the mighty Moon Worm." - Al Gore* "Good for him." - Phillip J. Fry*   *From Futurama: Crimes of the Hot   " Black muddy river, roll on forever.  I don't care how deep or wide if you've got another side Roll muddy river, roll muddy river Black muddy river, roll" -        The Grateful Dead. Black Muddy River, In the Dark     Stop for a moment and see this in your mind’s eye. To men, both exhausted, driving back from Bike the Bridges. The two are about five miles from the passenger’s house. The passenger has become quiet as he looks out the window at the hills the separate Livermore and Tracey. He is thinking about how he has been up there and road those hills. He thinks about the hill he road today, but most he gets lost in the thought riding by those windmills. He stares off into the distance tired but pleased. Proud of his accomplishes from a week ago and proud of what he did today. The