What a Ride!
This looks really hard and a lot of fun! Wow!
Truth and Beauty
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship is the third book by Ann Patchett that I have read this year. This is a non-fiction story of her friendship with author Lucy Grealy. In the second sentence of the book, Patchett describes going to grad school in 1985. I did a double-take, wait, what? I went off to
PB Cookies
I was invited to a cookie exchange party where I was supposed to bring 6 dozen cookies. Since I don’t usually bake sweet things anymore, I harkened to my childhood when cookies were baked by the ton. My mother would bake for weeks at a time so she could distribute plates of goodies to
Portrero Trail to Hurricane Deck
Santa Barbara has some amazing back country. A 1.5 hour drive can get you to the middle of nowhere. I did a 10 mile round trip hike today: Portrero Trial to Hurricane Deck, rated as steep, rugged, remote. Sounds perfect. It was much more taxing than what I did in Yosemite. To get to the
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Appalachian Trail Trek
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail is a 1998 book by Bill Bryson, describing his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend Stephen Katz. The book is written in a humorous style, interspersed with more serious discussions of matters relating to the trail’s history, and the surrounding sociology,
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