MTBing Twenty Mile Trail- Roots & Rocks- Jasper, Alberta

Click to see short video of Greg riding the Twenty Mile Trail
I needed to pee in the worst way when we arrived at the trailhead for Twenty Mile Trail Loop in Jasper. I found some bushes a little ways from the parking area and just as I was yanking my bike shorts up I locked eyeballs [...]

Two weeks on the road and now in the Canadian Rockies

Finally sitting in a cyber cafe after two weeks on the road and posting. I’ll try to fill in some details. We just arrived in Banff, Canada this morning and easily found a nice campsite a few miles out of town. A rain shower while we were setting up our campsite. Except for yesterday a rain [...]

Season Greeting 2009

We sent out snail mail and email greetings, but may have missed a few people. You can see [...]

Sancerre Jazz

Jazz on [...]

Chloé

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World Language Speakers

From Many Eyes.

Going from number 2 to [...]

Site Name

Knobby.ws or KeepTheRubberSideDown.com?

Both and capitalization does not matter. No “www.” either, but should work if added.

KeepTheRubberSideDown.com is fun, but too long. RubberSideDown.com was already taken and still is being used by a motorcycle parts supplier.

Knobby because it is a short term associated with mountain biking. Knobs are the raised bumps on mountain bike tires that give [...]

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Site name change to Knobby.ws

The domain name is changing from KeepTheRubberSideDown to Knobby.ws. The former, athough fun and descriptive, was too long for emails. The prefix ws is supposed to conjure web-site or World Site, but is really Western Samoa.

The changeover as far as the blog is concerned will be mostly transparent and either URL will get you here [...]

The saga ends—a serious problem resolved

The trip home was necessary. Louisa had a torn retina which was laser repaired this afternoon. She’s lucky it didn’t detach in the ten days since it tore, because an untreated tear leads to a detached retina which results in blindness.

Sadly the photos of her eyes she was given in Conakry are not her eyes. [...]