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San Francisco!

July 9, 2008 admin Comments Off

Long story short: the Barefoot folk throw a damn fine BBQ. They wore me out so I crashed early, but Clara kept going. A true champ. So we woke up at the leisurely hour of […]

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?

July 8, 2008 admin 2

We do! We’ve been doing a LOT of driving, oftentimes with some pretty crazy and random directions (thank you, Google maps). I haven’t blogged since yesterday — Monday — morning, when we were getting out […]

Napa Daze

July 7, 2008 admin Comments Off

We blew into Napa late in the afternoon on Saturday, and hit Naya’s (of Ritual) 30th birthday party full force. Hosted by Grayson at his lovely riverside house, the party was slammin with the first […]

Yay America! From Mendocino to Healdsburg…

July 5, 2008 admin 1

Bikes to Rwanda/Barista Magazine Road Trip Days #2 and #3: Excuse me for not blogging yesterday but there’s barely cell service in Mendocino/Fort Bragg, much less Internet, but the views make it more than worth […]

Hit it!

July 3, 2008 admin 1

After an excruciating time spent at the Hertz rental car counter this morning, Clara and I finally got hold of our rental Prius and cruised on out of Portland, Northern California in our sights. To […]

Bikes to Rwanda Nor-Cal Road Trip!

July 2, 2008 admin 1

Clara Seasholtz, Executive Director of Bikes to Rwanda (BTR), and I ”Sarah Allen, BTR Board member and editor of Barista Magazine ”are hitting the road bound for Northern California! This crazy idea came about when […]

On the ground in CPH

June 17, 2008 admin Comments Off

Sarah and I are back in our hotel room, munching on cheap pizza before we fall into a deep jet-lagged slumber. But to be back means that we first went out, and we did. In […]

Best Name Ever

May 23, 2008 admin Comments Off

Doing any sort of traveling demands many hours perusing the SkyMall catalog, and it’s always amazing just what is for sale at 30,000 feet. In previous years, hot dog cookers have been popular with multiple, […]

Back from Cali

April 2, 2008 admin Comments Off

What a freakin blast the last six days were. I spent them in Berkeley, Calif., my hometown and where my parents, Steve and Leanne, still live. I was there for two reasons: to attend and […]

Washington, D.C., it fits me to a T…

February 18, 2008 admin 3

Thanks to one of the bestest bands ever, Magnetic Fields, I had the song “Washington, D.C.” (from the record, 69 Love Songs, Volume 2) spinning in my head for all of last weekend, as we […]