Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
I Go Bats For Bats
Let me introduce you to this adorable little chiropteran fella:
(You’ll wanna click it for the bigger picture)
Don’t fret. It’s sleeping, not dead. It may look like it’s flat on the ground, but its clinging vertically to a beam under an eave next to the Amargosa Opera House. Susan and I found two others nearby. Just [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in adventure, animals, travel, updated by Will
Monday, November 30th, 2009
StarTrax
(You’ll wanna click it for the bigger picture)
Directions: After enjoying turkey and all the fixin’s, and then lighting a campfire, mount a camera on a tripod at Eureka Dunes Thanksgiving Day evening with a waxing gibbous moon behind you. Next point the camera out into the pitch darkness in the general ballpark direction of north [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in adventure, timelapse, travel by Will
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Death Valley Daze
Well, we’re home safe from our oddball Thanksgiving weekend in Death Valley. There were moments of disappointment, such as when on a cold and windy and damp Saturday morning from Ubehebe Crater looking at the snow-dumping serious storm parked over the road to Racetrack Playa that I made the right but tough decision to delay [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in adventure, travel by Will
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
My Bay-bee Is An Absolute Genius!
In August I wrote about our off-the-wall plans for what may very well be the oddest, bestest most awesome Thanksgiving of our lives next week. It involves packing up a rented SUV and leaving Los Angeles Wednesday night, driving straight out to Death Valley’s Eureka Dunes, spending Turkey Day and night there, then driving to [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in adventure, travel by Will
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
6000th
I began my 6,000th biking mile as I crossed the intersection of Venice and National boulevards at 7:08 p.m., but I stopped to commemorate the milestone with a more interesting background a block further on:
The above image is slightly biggifiable, or you can watch the brief vid from which it was culled (video because it [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in biking, milestones by Will
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
In Search Of A Just Sentence
So I was pointed to this page of the Yield To Life website by a member of the Bike Writers Collective. Apparently in an attempt to minimize what has the potential to be a 10-year sentence for Dr. Christopher Thompson his defense team is gathering letters and testimonials of support for what a good guy [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in biking, crime, letters by Will
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Milestone Arrival Imminent
The element that most consistently changes on this blog is that little box in the sidebar near the top of this front page titled “Bike Mileage Tally.” I’m pretty religious in its updating. Whenever I put my peds to the pedals be it for a short trip in my neighborhood, a mountain bike ride in [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking, milestones by Will
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
A Day Worth Dancing About
After a dental appointment yesterday morning in the Miracle Mile I was struck by the meteorological majesty of the day and couldn’t help but bike to Westchester via Santa Monica and Venice and Marina Del Rey to marvel at such magnificence.
Before leaving the Venice Pier for the office, I enviously spied a gentleman reveling in [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in adventure, biking by Will
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Monday Morning Moment
Ranger at 6:25 a.m. today on the chippendale in the dining room bay window
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
The Last Thing A Mouse Sees
And the last thing it hears is Pepper saying, “By yourself you aren’t much of a meal, but perhaps you have family nearby?”
