Strangers ….They are just friends waiting to happen

Yesterday I received a text message asking if I was available to host a bikepacker traveling up the east coast to Portland Maine. The request came from a bikepacker who was on the last part of a cross country bikepacking trip from his home in California to DC and up to Portland maine. He found …

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My Christmas List…

Every year, I get asked repeatedly for my Christmas list. My response has been the same every year... "I truly don't want or need anything" or "I have everything I need already". I've been wondering though how I've come to feel this way.. am I just too lazy to put the time and effort into …

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Apple core..Baltimore, who’s your friend?

I finished an apple this morning and while holding the apple core in my hands, I channeled a childhood voice in my head and shouted. Apple Core... Baltimore.... Who's your friend? and then I blurted out my daughters name...Izzy! As I raised the apple core to throw it at my daughter she looked at me …

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Bikes, Buds, Boys and Sue

I am one of a core group of Old Marine MP's who have done a lot of amazing events together over the past 30 years ranging from team relay races (run to bike to boat) to triathlons (Ironman, Sprint and Olympic) and countless road races (Marathons to 5K's) but few have been more personally rewarding …

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