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Sniffle sniffle cough cough 11 Dec 2010 | 12:01 pm

Four years ago, on my 28th birthday, I booked into a meditation clinic at the Thirroul Community Centre. Not out of any sort of hippie idealism, but because having written a couple features about the ...

Cali 25 Nov 2010 | 01:57 pm

Santa Monica LA gets a bad rap. But I make no apologies for the fact that I really like this place-- I have been here many times over the last decade, partly because it conveniently breaks up the oth...

Food and bike therapy 17 Nov 2010 | 08:04 am

Upon returning from Moab I realized that there's one thing I can't live without. Yeah you guessed right. A mountain bike. Thank you to Polly and Trev for buying the leather couch and thus funding the...

Doing my own thing 19 Oct 2010 | 05:35 am

Spent the past four days in Moab. Loved it. Even though I lived in Utah for three years, and had been to Moab before, I had never mountain biked there. I had just bought my first bike back then, a red...

One foot in, one foot out 14 Oct 2010 | 08:19 am

I have been living in in-betweens for a while, and I still am, really, but this past week I decided to be fully here for winter. I bought a down-hill ski set up and a season pass. I think it will be w...

Conundrum Hotsprings 13 Oct 2010 | 07:51 am

Last weekend Mark and I drove to Crested Butte, car camped, and then hiked 9 miles to Conundrum Hotsprings. In the pictures it looks a bit like a crowded resort, but we lucked out and arrived just aro...

You might be a redneck if... 23 Sep 2010 | 10:45 am

This past weekend I went backpacking for the first time since new year's. My friend Mark and his friend Nico were climbing a tower in the Indian Creek Wilderness area, which is near Rocky Mountain Nat...

Naples and Lumberjacks 21 Sep 2010 | 04:54 pm

Every year in autumn, my family drives to Naples to get grapes and apples-- there are many vendors in the region, but these are the two stands my mom always goes to, and when they see her pull up they...

Boulder 16 Sep 2010 | 02:01 pm

I arrived in Colorado last night: was supposed to fly Delta, but the flight to Minneapolis was delayed, which would have caused me to miss my onward flight to Denver, so they switched me, and several ...