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Racial Diversity

25 October 2011

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One of the things that I most enjoy about the San Francisco Bay area is the racial diversity. You can see people, dress, and food from every corner of the world in nearly any community around here and it’s quite a contrast from the White-Bud-Drinking-Redneck-in-a Ford-F-250-4X4 that is so ubiquitous here around San Luis Obispo […]

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Chinatown Characters

23 October 2011

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Driving through Chinatown the other day, we saw an old, old Chinese dude walking along proudly sporting a nice cowboy hat. I think his name was Yee Ha.

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Fear the Coke Machine

13 August 2011

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I was reading through a page of death and injury statistics a few months ago, something published by a government agency, and I was really surprised by a few things. As a surfer I was particularly interested to see that although surfing looks fairly dangerous the severity of injuries and likelihood of death are similar […]

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Radar

23 June 2011

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Typically, I drive about 85 MPH on the highways. I know it’s too fast but I don’t drink a lot, womanize, or gamble, so I must exhibit a flaw somewhere. Surprisingly I don’t get many tickets because I have radar. I don’t mean that I have a radar detector, I mean that I have radar. […]

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Tri-Tip

10 May 2011

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Tri-tip may be the most wonderful food on the planet. Tri-tip is the very end of the beef sirloin. It isn’t the nice big tender end, it’s the small, tough end. It was cheap once but now it’s popular and expensive. It looks like a 5 pound triangular roast with a thick slab of fat […]

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From Humble Beginnings

6 May 2011

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This is the story of my family’s long nautical tradition. When I was small, in the 60’s, my family made a trip to the Salton Sea. My dad was a bit of a partier and his boat was a classic P.O.S. It was a 16′ flat-bottomed lake boat with a big V-8 and a direct […]

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