Pat and Kathie

Once we left the trailhead at Paro on our high altitude Himalaya "walk" we encountered few villages, really more like settlements...

A couple weeks back I wrote about the Doors of Bhutan and one practice in this Buddhist country was particularly puzzling. Why the ubiquit...

"Our coach said we wouldn't win today", Hayley said from the back seat of the car. It was 4:30 AM and dark. I was driving her ...

So can you tell which of our presidential candidates might have said the following? “I do not want -- as I believe most Americans do not wan...

I was starting to get sick getting onto the plane in LAX, that telltale scratchy throat, the body aches, but 23 hours of flying time later, ...

I should be paying my bills. Instead, I'm blogging. I don't write for weeks and then I go hog wild. Go figure. I don't know how ...

Kathie e-mailed me this link the other day. To protect the innocent, the significance of the article’s content to us will remain undisclose...

I walked 150 high altitude miles of Bhutan's Himalayas in October, through snow, rain, mud, glacial moraine, yak stampedes, over high pa...

Where better to ski than the wide open spaces of Vail? And in what better company than grandbabies? A teen and nearly teen, they object to b...

Words of advice from George Washington on the occasion of his farewell address in 1796: "I have already intimated to you the danger of ...

Here I sit, eating my breakfast and surfing through my favorite blogs. I really should run upstairs and get my shower, given that I need to ...

Kathie and her family visited us here in Charleston over Christmas. As always, we had such a good time! It was so nice to finally meet Isabe...

Don Diego de San Diego 1992-2007 Diego was a brave, loyal and loving kittie. His gentle spirit is free to travel the world.

A week or so ago, Joan posted a YouTube of Nick Cave...she's apparently into deep-voiced men. Her post reminded me of probably the fir...

I started to write my mountain stories several months back and got as far as Whitney and Shasta . The next chapter on Mt. Rainier was partl...

Sunday face update – the skin on either side of my jaw felt crinkly. That couldn’t be good. Kathie and I had a free day, meaning that we had...

I’m back. It took me longer than just lunch, but who’s counting? At 2:00 on the dot, Kathie and I ambled over to the Diamond Fund entrance. ...