After an epic excursion to Scandinavia & the Baltics, we’ve been having a fun summer at home in La Honda. I swim everyday, bike most, go for a few hikes, and move stuff around. I prepared for and participated in the Pescadero Art & Fun Festival, and have continued my artistic endeavors by doing some ceramics.

Charlie has been working at Vida Verde this summer, and Veronica has been spending most of it with Justin up in Shasta. Soon, they’ll return to UC Santa Cruz for their senior years and, hopefully, both graduate in June 2025. ML has already gone back to work teaching music, etc. at all three school sites!

Dr. Alan Burr and I have planned an exciting trip to southern Africa (two Intrepid tours with Mozambique etc. in between), which of course I’ll be documenting next! This post will constitute the randomness of my two month adventure interlude. Here we go with some art, mine and Lynnette Vega’s (last 2)…

Random clouds, suns & moons, a new bathroom at Pie Ranch, and an evening dinner overlooking the sea with Ruby & Boman. The “Bienvenidos” sign in a barn with all the rest of the PAFF stuff…

One day I went for a hike at horseshoe lake (an old cattle pond just off Skyline with Josh Becker, our State Senator, and a bunch of fellow constituents…

Allow me to explain the blast from the past below! I’m thinking of applying to work at LA28, the return of the Olympics to Los Angeles in 2028. So, I looked up some of the pix I had from the first time I worked at the Olympics in 1984 – my introduction to living in LA, and the start of my teaching career in LAUSD. As a bilingual host (French), I worked at the UCLA village with a bunch of other fun people, and hosted the welcoming ceremonies for Togo (’cause I lived there) and Greece (’cause the Olympics started there). This batch also includes my former Hamilton High colleague, Dr. Jon Amsden, and a day when it snowed in Riverside…!

Randomness! A good blood pressure reading, an empty weed jar, phone screen grab, four minis in a La Honda driveway, some naked ladies, and an old basketball hoop. ML & I had dinner at the beach with Ruby & Boman again! Some homegrown and a map of the fire fuel mitigation project in town…

More shots – mostly panos – of the forest clearing project to protect us from fires. Why? Because to me this is a great opportunity to make some new mountain bike trails – don’t you agree?

The King’s Mountain Art Fair on Labor Day weekend 2024…

CLHG Finance Committee meeting, and how we train our children to be school shooters – nerf guns!

A batch of randomness! First up, my Covid Vax card, then a bike ride on the coastal trail, a property for sale in Princeton, harbor boat in the fog, a chili party at Karl & Rita’s, and the Pie Ranch harvest dinner. Then, some random shots at the house (a front door needing to be replaced and my corral studio), posed banana slugs (couldn’t get ’em to get freaky), kids bikes parked at Veronica’s house in SC, and two medicine bottles for a trip to Africa (potential malaria and diarrhea)…

Thanks again friends. This is being posted from SFO on our way to southern Africa for two more Intrepid tours: Experience Southern Africa & the Garden Route. Stay tuned for more…