Avon Walk…at last!

This is me, starting out this morning in Dillon, Colorado on the second leg of the Avon Breast Cancer Walk in the Rocky Mountains. As you can see, the scenery was well worth every single step, all by itself.
Far more worthwhile were the stories I heard along the way, and the tags I [...]

Why Orienteering Is Like Writing

Orienteering season has begun. Well, actually, it began a couple of weeks ago, only I didn’t run an orange course because I had to train for the Avon Walk. Or so I said. Maybe I wasn’t ready to deal with all that frustration and humiliation and extremely likely possibility of utter failure [...]

Brave (not)

I wanted to give CR a bungee jump off the Royal Gorge bridge for his birthday. (Not me, HIM.) Turns out they only do it once a year, and this is not it. So I settled for a very high swing that catapults the rider over empty space 1000 feet in the [...]