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I'm a husband, father, author, cyclist, sailor, travel addict, and Silicon Valley software engineer. I've written 4 books and actively review books on this blog. Comments on this blog are aggressively moderated against link-spam and rude or meaningless comments.

Monday, August 15, 2022

Review: Great Philosophical Debates - Free Will and Determinism

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 Niniane told me that Hoopla has a ton of Great Courses downloads available for free, and one of the free courses was Great Philosophical De...
Friday, August 12, 2022

June 24th: Taxi Transfer Day - Hiking SassoLungo

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 In 2018, Lukas Panitz of Base Camp Dolomites gave Bowen and I a ride to Selva Gardena after saving us several Euros in lodging simply by g...
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Thursday, August 11, 2022

Review: Paradise Falls

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Paradise Falls is a book about a section of the town of Niagara Falls known as Love Canal. It was the site of chemical dumping by the Hooke...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

June 23: Lago di Fie and the South Tyrol Archaeology Museum

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 We packed up everything and dropped the keys to the apartment off and then walked down to Hotel Regina, where of course we were too early ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

June 22nd: Vetzan to Bolzano

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 We had a nice early breakfast, and now that we knew where the exit from the bike path was, had no problem finding the bike path and rollin...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Review: Garmin quarter turn watch mount

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 I've been using the old style Garmin rubber mount for many years. It works, but is always sloppy and finicky. I recently discovered th...
Friday, August 05, 2022

June 21: Hotel Alpenrose to Sporthotel Vetzan

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In the cool morning air we did the descent stopping less frequently than usual, but once we got into Santa Maria we took off our jackets an...
Thursday, August 04, 2022

Review: Moosetreks Feedbag

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 In past years, I've used CamelBak backpacks for Bowen and Boen to drink from the bike while riding. Most of the time, however, enough o...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2022

June 20th: Hotel Franzenshohe to Hotel Alpenrose, Switzerland

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 When I first planned this trip, I recalled that Bowen and I effectively climbed 4 passes to Pontresina the next day, so making it to Livig...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

June 19th: Gomagoi to Hotel Franzenshohe

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"You wouldn't want any CO2 cartridges, would you?" "Uh, no. We have a pump." "I guess you're mountain bike...
Monday, August 01, 2022

Review: The World According to Star Wars

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 I was looking over Cass Sustein's book at the library and to my surprised, one of his books was The World According to Star Wars . I wa...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Consolidated Cycle Touring Page

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Piaw's Cycle Touring Adventures I've done a little bit of bicycle touring over the years, and this is the place where I'...
Friday, July 29, 2022

June 18th: Nauders to Gomagoi

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 The day started with a climb up to Resia pass from Nauders on the bike path. Peaceful in the morning, and granting beautiful views, we rod...
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