“Hiking” in Point Reyes

“Hiking” = 5 miles of walking. A very pleasant walk, through coastal scrubbiness, down to the seaside, and back up an unpaved fire road.  From the National Park Service’s handy website, we picked the Coast to Laguna loop trail.  There’s a lighthouse at Pt. Reyes, but the visitor center folk warned us of menacing fog […]

January thoughts

My ability for self discipline has proven itself to be rather unreliable as of late.  I think I’ve determined that there needs to be some strong external force motivating me, and then I’ll be self-regulating, but absent that, no go. Somehow, I got up every morning at 5am to go to swim practice in high […]

Pigeon cannibalism

Seen at a square in Costa Rica. There was a KFC nearby. And a Burger King. And a McDonalds, and pizza something or other. It was like the square of the Ugly American. And there was Mr. Pigeon. Picking clean the carcasses of his brethren. Gross.