There are lots of bicycle clubs and trails for the purpose. Good fun! Good exercise! And given all the things I'm not particularly good at here in retirement, well, riding a bike isn't something that you're necessarily good or bad at - you just do it.
After a very mediocre round of golf on Monday, biking seemed preferable. Today I shot a stellar (for me) 87, easily my best round this year.
I guess I'll put off bicycling for awhile. At least until golf gets frustrating again!
I took my car in for routine service recently. When I do this, I typically take a walk up and down Solano Avenue. This time in doing so, I stopped in the Solano Avenue Cyclery.
Growing up, I used to love to ride bicycles! I learned when I was about five and of course it was a necessity until I could drive. I rode quite a bit until at the age of 29 I left the flatlands of Michigan. I then found that Salinas was flat so I pedaled for another year, at which point I moved to the Berkeley Hills. It was just too hilly.
I haven't had a bicycle for maybe 20 years. A friend of mine has been participating in the Tour de Cure anually for several years now.
12-string guitars are an interesting mix of sweet and frustration. The sound is great, but tuning and changing strings is just too much.
Leo Kottke was great on acoustic 12, and many folk groups of the '60's featured one. Think "Green Green" and "Walk Right In".
I have a nice Gibson, but I never play it. Really, never. And I doubt I ever will. I'd have to change the strings to make it worth doing, not to mention I'd need a reason.
Others probably would, at least for the right price. Unfortunately I don'r have a record of what I paid for it. I can't even identify it through the Gibson web site. And it needs some TLC. The finish is cracked and the pick guard isn't secure.
I need to set it free.
As for travel, yet again, no new counties were done. The project is still alive, but I need some motivation. South or Central America will probably be in 2013 when I can speak Spanish better!
I committed to fill in on guitar for the latest iteration of Void Where Prihibited. That gig is in late June. Then in October I'll do yet another Void reunion gig. On June 2 I'll be in an acoustic jam with some friends.
Planning for this year's HUGE golf tournament seems to have stalled. We've had a couple of non-responders is all. After my epic 87 today I'm anxious to get things moving again! Funny how that works. I'm sure things will all work out for this year's return to Lake Tahoe.
My back has been giving me problems. I doesn't seem to interfere with too much except when I wake up in the morning. A friend recommended a massage therapist who has given me some stretches. That helps but I think the bigger problem is too much time in a bad chair in front of my computer.
It's getting better.
May update completed. Finished most of The Maharajah, started With A Little Help.
04/07/12
April update completed. Deleted link to 2011 resolutions.
04/06/12
April update started. Finished Cycles of Thought, started Existentialism. Finished Makers (most excellent!) and started The Maharajah.
03/01/12
Finished Quantumland, Read Lying, started Makers. Finished Cycles of Thought, began Brain Fitness. Started March update.
02/02/12
Finished February update.
01/12/12
Finished January update. Finished Steve Jobs, started Alice in Quantumland.
