Sara and I joined my parents (Ann and John), my mother’s sister and SO (Jane and Gibbers), and my father’s sister (Joyce) for a week-long pre-celebration party in southern Italy. We stayed in a beautiful trulli near a small town named Ceglie Messapica. It was incredible.
Dylan and I sailed his custom Dogpatch 26 “Moonshine” in the doublehanded lightship race, a short offshore race outside the SF Bay’s Golden Gates.
The winds were light and we were becalmed for a short time off Pt. Bonita. Of course on the way back we had some fun as it was blowing hard right inside the gates!
We brought a daisy and dropped it at the buoy; a week earlier the Cheoy Lee 31 “Daisy” was lost with Matt Gale and Anthony Harrow aboard coming back from a similar race.
Sara and I had been sailing around the SF Bay on our 27′ Ericson, but we really wanted to learn how to sail out in the ocean. We looked around and found the Sailing San Carlos website. We signed up a few weeks later for a five-day trip in the first week of 2006.
The trip was fantastic; we had a great time sailing and we also got engaged. This page covers the sailing portion, there’s a whole other page with sunset pictures and other engagement details.
Mike, Larry and I had been talking about going back to Cow Mountain for a few months. The winter was over, the weather was warmer, and we were sure we wouldn’t need a trailer or two trucks.
My friend Mike crashes his RC plane in a wet field. We don’t want to go get it because we’re flying the plane at lunchtime and we don’t want our shoes to be muddy. Who wants to track mud into work? That’s unprofessional.
Trip Report: “Lighter and epic free!”
The Shrine, Eardley Escarpment
Gatineau Hills, Quebec – 14th April 2001
Trip Report: “My first climb! My first epic!”
Western Cwm, Eardley Escarpment
Gatineau Hills, Quebec – 7th April 2001
