• Time to kick on the lights

  March 18, 2011

• Happiness is reaching the top of the day’s climb, with the woman of your dreams.

  March 18, 2011

• Photos never do this trail justice – it’s much steeper and grueling than it looks.

  March 18, 2011

• The ridge line above Newbury Park has to be the sweetest stretch of singletrack in Ventura County – tight, lush, rolling and windy.

  March 18, 2011

• This past season’s rain washed a lot of dirt off the trails above Newbury Park, exposing a lot of rock, which has made the steep climb oh so enjoyable.

  March 18, 2011

• I poured a honey-stinger waffle with some peanut-butter into the gas tank last night. Donna dared to tackle the climb on an empty tank. Guess who had more fun?

  March 18, 2011

• Got out for another great ride after work last night. Sucking wind for 50 minutes and bombing downhill for 20 minutes really clears the head.

  March 18, 2011

• By time we started heading down the mountain, it was time to kick on the lights. The scenery is absolutely amazing at dusk. This is the loop I used to ride after work, by myself, and it was such a nice treat to be able to share it with Donna – I’m looking forward to a long spring, summer & fall of evening’s like this.

  March 16, 2011

• Thanks to daylight savings time, we got to soak up a beautiful sunset tonight. The best part – no more of that getting-up-at-5:30am crap, to try to squeeze in a ride before work.

  March 16, 2011

• Got out for the first of many post-work night rides tonight. It doesn’t really count as a post-work ride for me since I had the day off today, but Donna got home from work and hopped right into her cycling gear.

  March 16, 2011

• Donna is at work today so I decided to head over to the coast to shoot some photos and video. Sunny! 72 degrees! What more could you ask for – well, except for Donna’s company.

  March 15, 2011

• Something tells me Donna is just as anxious for me to get my new iPad as I am. She spends a lot of time on her iPhone and I think the iPad is going to be great for her… much more so th an a laptop or desktop computer. We stopped to check out the iPad2 at the Apple store today and it just got me all the more anxious for the arrival of one on my desk at work.

  March 15, 2011

• Nothing beats sitting outside in the middle of March, in a short-sleeve shirt, eating dinner – especially when it’s a double-cheeseburger from The Habit. Between this and the popcorn, it’s a good thing I spent as much time on the bike this weekend as I did.

  March 15, 2011

• Donna deciding to pass on popcorn today meant all the more for me. Mmmm! Battle LA is non-stop action and great on the big screen – don’t go see it mom, you’d hate it.

  March 15, 2011

• I love the singletrack above Westlake Village. Sweet stuff.

  March 14, 2011

• Donna (bottom left) preparing to tackle one of four climbs on today’s ride.

  March 14, 2011

• All smiles during Sunday’s epic 4-hour ride. Sadly, I now consider four hours an ‘epic.’

  March 14, 2011

• Conference calls can be quite boring when the topic turns to stories – who wants to read stories when you can look at pictures, right? Well, long story short, I needed to entertain myself in some way while discussing Sunday’s stories.

  March 13, 2011

• After installing a new video-editing app for iPad, I was anxious to shoot some video so I’d have something to edit. The result… Not bad for a $40 app.

  March 9, 2011

• I wasn’t much in the mood to get on the bike today, given yesterday’s wreck, so we took a nice hike to a waterfall near Sycamore Canyon

  March 1, 2011