Travels

AAPT meeting in Portland and my bike trip home

July 15, 2010

I’m leaving today for the American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be presenting a workshop at the meeting (see next post), then riding my bicycle to Eugene then down the coast back to Berkeley. You can follow my cycling exploits here: www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=RrzKj&doc_id=7183&v=V Share this post:

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Blogging my SF-San Luis Obispo bike trip on crazyguyonabike.com

April 3, 2010

I’m riding a six-day bicycle tour from San Francisco (well, Daly City BART, actually) to San Luis Obispo. I found a great web site for posting bike trips, CrazyGuyOnABike.com/leetramp. You can follow my trip there. I’m riding a great touring bike, the Surly “Long Haul Trucker.” The bike is not light, but it’s sturdy I’m [...]

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200 people can commute in:

June 25, 2009

Great poster from Seattle demonstrating the space it takes on a street to move 200 people in various modes. Share this post:

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California Action Alert on Employment & Disability

April 13, 2009

Dear Advocates, AB 1269 is important for Californians with disabilities who want to or do work. If you’re unfamiliar with Medi-Cal’s California Working Disabled Program, please see the following text link that describes the current program. http://www.chiip.org/longdesc/medi-cal_brochure_english.html AB 1269 adds desperately needed improvements to California’s Medicaid Buy-In Program that were vetoed by the governor two [...]

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War Resister support protest at Peace Arch

July 15, 2008

On my way back from Canada, I stopped for my usual visit to the Peace Arch on the Canada/US border. This year I was pleasantly surprised to find a protest in favor of US war resistors, and Robin Long in particular. For more details, see http://resisters.ca/index_en.html. Click the photo on the right for more photos. [...]

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Great visit with some of the Canadian Trampleasures

July 15, 2008

Last night I had a great visit with cousins in Delta, British Columbia, Canada. Gary is my “fourth cousin.” He’s proud to be the oldest living Trampleasure in Canada, and the third oldest in the world (my dad beats him out by a decade, as does Colin in London). I met two “fourth cousins once [...]

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Two lovely days on Whidbey Island, WA

July 14, 2008

Mmm. Relaxing. I spent Saturday and Sunday with my old neighbor Quinn. Quinn moved up here last fall, and is enjoying his first summer on the island. He’s got a nice place, with enough space to hang his many guitars, but not so much as to need to hire a housecleaner He’s on the end [...]

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Mt. Rainier and a family of foxes

July 11, 2008

Today started off with me doing laundry and computer tasks while Etsuko went to class and Bob went to work. Around noon, we had got it together to drive to Mt. Rainier. Etsuko used to give tours on the mountain, so she was our guide. The park entrance is about two hours from Seattle, but [...]

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Two hundred people can commute…but how would Lenin do it?

July 10, 2008

Great poster on the ferry. Be sure to click on the larger image to see all the details. The options shown in the poster are: By car, by bus, by light rail, and by bike. Very descriptive. Then, there’s Lenin in Seattle: A guy found this in the former Czechoslovakia, bought it for its artistic [...]

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Another day, another 200 miles or so

July 9, 2008

Yesterday afternoon was a nice drive up coast of Washington (although most of it was inland). Entered the Olympic National Forest and Park. Last night I did make it to the Hoh Rainforest. Lots of lichen, moss, and fungi. I went to a campfire talk on fungi, and it was lead by a fungal. She [...]

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