Breaking Rocks

Memories of Riding Around Taipei

Aboriginal wood carving at the Sheng Kai Shek memorial on the west end of the city and Taipei 101 on the east.

Ride Today

I have three camera apps on my phone. None of them worked very well getting the image of this pair of eagles. Top is regular camera app. Below is from the HDR sans zoom. The final is ZOOM fx. For me it doesn't matter, these pictures will help me remember seeing the birds on a great ride; I can add mentalpixels. Wish I could post memories.

Artcrank 2012

04.14.12

Minneapolis

Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art

5:00PM

Link

Bird Man is a Hoax

I feel a bit better about being duped knowing that Wired Science also got taken in.

Flying like a Bird( Some people are Smart and Brave)

Or as Jared says, "gullible."

Happy

A collection of last years mums and bits of our holiday tree spell out the feelings of my daughter on this 70+ degree, mid-March day. "Happy" formed the center piece of our patio dinner including pie. Not a typical Minnesota spring.

Old School Touring Minnesota Style

Here are William Fay and Bob Drake on a 600-mile bicycle trip through northern Minnesota ca. 1935. Imagine the adventure and fitness requirements of single speed coaster brake touring.

I found this picture searching the image data base of the Minnesota Historical Society. The image search homepage is here. I really appreciate these old photos. Is anyone still submitting them?

Minneapolis Ride

Jared and I took advantage of the 66F weather to do an Urban ride. We met by the closed Sabo Bridge and headed east on the Greenway. Then headed north on River Road. Walked across this RR bridge sans tracks and railings; very cool

Bikes on the Stone Arch Bridge; Jared's carbon LeMond single speed and my heavily geared steel Long Haul Trucker

We had lunch at One on One, cream of mushroom soup with bread.

Here's a map of our route from my phone's Cardio Trainer app. Lots of stops and good fun.

Cuyuna Lakes Whiteout 2012 (Jared's a Yeti)

Turn it up, expand it and watch it in HD.

Anticipating Cuyuna Lakes Whiteout

My excitement for the upcoming weekend adventure is contagious. Loading skis, bikes, kites, snowshoes and bivy gear starts the fun. Not sure what I will need, but seeing me packing my favorite toys got Claire motivated too.

Link to the fun