Last month we drove Ginny the Range Rover to Shenandoah for a backpacking trip. She drove as smooth as butter, kept us comfy!

We picked up Hazel in BVA last weekend and drove north to Shenandoah National Park for an overnight on Chimney Rock. The weather was PERFECT- rained on the way out, but that’s okay.

Fall in Ohio means AMAZING temperatures and… yep, grilling, football, and marching bands. We’ve hit Cedar Point a few times (Halloweekends in full swing), and celebrated Amor y Amistad on prompting from a Colombian friend (I made a Colombian egg salad for dinner, amongst other things). We also sold our van, Jonas (photo below taken…

June, July, August… half of September. It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I’m just going to give a quick rundown. In June the kids started coming home from college, etc. By August everybody was home – packed house to say the least! But it was awesome. In addition to hitting all the cool…

Got out into the sun today. Last fall I hiked from the Brecksville Reservation Nature Center to Deer Lick cave and around. Today I discovered how to get to Deer Lick Cave from another parking lot – Station Road Bridge. Ended up walking just over 5 mi. with Billie. I had to get back for…

Today marks an important day in my life, a day that I learned that humor and laughter can go a long way with regard to making people feel better. About 40 years ago-ish I sent an April Fools Day phone call down the hill to my grandparents house (Gran and Pop to us locals) with…

Red Hill Mining Town (U2, The Joshua Tree, 1987) just crossed through on Spotify and I was immediately taken back over 20 years. Living in SW Washington state at that time, I graduated college in the early 2000’s and was on a massive U2 kick on that point in my life. Red Hill Mining Town…

Stephen King wrote an entire book on this (literally – and it’s fantastic). This post isn’t about this. It’s actually just a note to myself to put stuff down here no matter how plain, nonsensical, or uninspiring. Just put something down, man. What social media tried to be, I suppose.

Went to Columbus this weekend for a getaway in Ginny (2008 LR322) – a pretty routine trip for Clevelanders. Awesome times in town, but we took 7 hours to drive home (instead of the normal 2-ish) and wandered county roads NE of Columbus out through Amish country. Got into the hills of the Appalachian Plateau…

My wife and I ran 6.2 miles (5k out and back) of a section of the Buckeye Trail near Hiram, OH this morning. Absolutely beautiful. As they say, “follow the blue blazes“.