What to drink

when the power is out in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica: fresh orange juice, squeezed with a battery powered juicer!

Just under the wire!

Checked in and dropped bag with literally 2 min to spare. Ran from MARTA to Delta sky priority check-in.

Am looking good. On Airtrain to E gates now.

Holy SHIT, I hate this nervewracking last minute bullshit.

But, it all worked out.

Next stop: Costa Rica!

observations on aging

Getting old and being physically active both suck sometimes.

Tore up my heel, and ripped part of a big toenail off, on eve of flying to Costa Rica (on train to airport now, meeting A2 in CR!) Still going, but will have to cancel a jungle hike that I was VERY excited about.

Also have 2 week old poison ivy that is infected, and that J is worried might go septic.

Boo. If I weren't on my way to a great vacation, you should feel bad for me.

Bike porn, food porn, booze porn

Yep: this post has it all!

My lovely bike. I recently took off the milk crate, and it was kind of amazing how much lighter and more nimble Sitba feels without it.


I used to, uhhhh, hate bloody marys. My sample size? One. Unfortunately, it was after running a hot, fast 10K in Denver some years ago, and they were giving away free bloody marys with some top shelf vodka. I took one sip, and nearly had to spit it out. Then last year, I bumped into my friend J4 at Atlanta Streets Alive, and we popped into the Corner Tavern, where J4 introduced me to how delicious bloody marys can be, if made well. The not so secret ingredient? A little bit of high quality stout! The above bloody mary was at J4's house, before the Inman Park Festival.

This was the bloody mary fixins bar.

Speaking of the Inman Park Festival, yeah, well, it sort of sucks. I'll leave you to judge the above image (hints: yes, that is a Volvo crossover, I think an XC60, and yes, they were an official vendor for the event.)

When was the last time you cooked 10 quarts of coconut vegetable curry on camp stoves? For me it was last weekend. (And this won out of four dinners over two nights in our friendly but fierce little competition.)

This is what happens when you organize a cycling event for 400 people, are are somewhat obsessive about diverting recyclable and compostable material from the waste stream. Yes, that is my kitchen floor.

Busy busy busy. Today Atlanta, tomorrow Costa Rica, next week West Virginia. Whee!

Bikes bikes bikes!

So, yeah: I've been SO DAMN BUSY these last few weeks I've barely remembered to eat, much less blog. Here is a cool video about one of the big things that has been taking up a ton of my days: BIKES! WHEE!



I totally love the intro line: "Bicycles are beautiful, like the stars are beautiful."

More soon, really, seriously. Soon means after Saturday May 7 when a major event I'm helping organize is done.