Mariannes Trinad Tobago deployment with EMEDS

Tahoe Marathon and Yosemite with Mom

Marianne set up a great present for my Birthday. We stayed overnight in Occidental at a B&B. The next day we were going for a ride and there was Scott and Habi ready to go. We did a good loop along the coast and a big luch in town afterwards.

A Visit from Sondra July 2010

Sailing San Francisco Bay June 2010

A visit from Tyson

Here is Tyson preaching fire and brimstone in Sonoma


Tyson , Me and John Muir.



The day before we arrived home from Hawaii my son Tyson and his friend Christina had driven up from Albuquerque. They explored San Francisco their first day in town, so we got home late Wednesday and there they were!

We checked out all that Vacaville has to offer, ( took 3 hours) and also visited John Muir national forest and the town of Sonoma. Did some wine tasting, and found a bunch of wild, ripe plums up behind our place. It was so nice seeing him again. Here's some pics.

Honu 70.3, Big island, Hawaii

Last Wednesday we flew over to the Big island for the Honu Half Ironman. This is the 4th year I've done this race and was hoping to snag a Kona slot like last year. Well no joy there but Marianne and I had a blast seeing all our friends from the islands and swimming in the ocean again. Our friend Jenny stayed with us in a beautiful condo I stumbled across on the internet.

My Swim and bike went perfectly but my run was a few minutes slow so I missed a championship slot by 6 minutes. No worries. Now I get to try again next year!

We were invited to an after race party hosted by Pac-Velo were I of course ate and drank to much. ( I wasn't drunk! Really!) The next day we went to the coffee shack with John and his family. This place has the best vies of any restaurant I've ever been to. Then, we moved over to the Mauna Kea hotel which is my favorite. I got to do a little paddleboarding and we saw the biggest fish ball I had ever seen. All in all, just a wonderful experience.