September 6, 2016 – 7th Day in Paradise Fifty years ago today, Star Trek premiered on NBC. I say this because the then 5-year mission for the crew of the starship Enterprise has since stretched to ten times that amount and will continue for many more years to come. They continue to boldly go… As […]
As far as recovery days go, there’s worse places to be than Kauai. I did a very slow 10 miler this morning… I want to say it was because I kept stopping trying to snap a photograph worthy of the dawn, but with a subject like this, it was an easy point, shoot, enjoy. No […]
It was a three-H experience at the Kauai Marathon 2016 – Heat, Humidity, and Hills. At least it wasn’t a 4-H – Hurricane. Despite myriad warnings and frets, Hurricane Lester turned out to be a non-issue. I’m a little embarrassed at how much of a non-issue given the pummeling and thrashing the East Coast of […]
Like some bad parody of a George M. Cohan musical number, I didn’t want to get up this AM but you gotta get up, you gotta get up, you gotta get up in the morning. I had every intention of running a tapered 6 miler this morning but wound up doing an 8 mile run […]
Another day in paradise, another 10 mile morning run. By the dawn’s early light, the cloud cover had improved markedly and sunrise itself proved to be all that I hope for in a Kauai morning. I even texted a photo to Mom from the road to ask if she was seeing it. She was. […]
So another day, another 10 miler run along the paths of paradise. This morning was a bit harder to get up and go, but I rallied and did it. Caught a few pre-dawn pics and made it back in time to get ready to hit the Fern Grotto River Cruise we had pre-booked. I […]
I got in late last night and drove to the Castle Mokihana. There’s no A/C here but the ocean breeze and crashing waves and near deserted beachfront more than makes up for it. This morning, due to jetlag and just general sleep issues, I was out the door at 5:20 AM for a ten mile […]
The Rolling Stones are usually right, especially about getting old. But every so often there’s a slight silver lining to the grey hairs. Maybe it’s a free pancake breakfast at Denny’s. Or… No, that’s usually about all to look forward when the age odometer clicks over another year. After 25 when you can rent a car […]
As Joel Goodson’s father tells him in “Risky Business” (1983): Sometimes you just gotta say “what the heck.” I’ve long wanted to visit Monument Valley, a natural wonder and part of the Navajo Nation Reservation. It’s perhaps made most famous in the Westerns of John Ford… but the location has also appeared in any number […]
Chaos. The start line was chaos. The “water monster” cup dispenser didn’t show, and even if it had the valve was apparently broken. The speakers weren’t working so the PA system had all of enough range as two tin cans tied together by a three foot string. The corral market signs hadn’t turned up so […]