Rio Strada teammate Derek Novaes snapped some great pic’s at this weekend’s races in El Dorado Hills. (I thought I saw his camera jammed into the hay bails.) See the rest of the set at his SmugMug Site. Now I’m going out shopping for a gut filter to give Derek as a gift.

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Something’s up… It’s April Fools Day and the day is nearly over and no one has even made a feeble attempt to pass off a gag or practical joke. I don’t trust my family. Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not planning something.

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Okay, really, why don’t the kids get up this easily on school days? For most of us it was the excitement of hitting Universal Studios for the day, but for Patrick it seemed it was the pancake machine in the hotel lobby.

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On any other day, you can’t get the kids up and moving to save your life, but this morning at 3:30 am, Patrick sprang out of bed and even the normally slow-to-rise Emily was up with a minimal amount of cajoling. They were excited beyond belief.

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I raced for more than a decade in the 80’s and 90’s and never got a photo as good as this one in my first race back in more than 21 years.  And yes, that’s a Rio Strada jersey, the club that I helped found 30 years ago.

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They didn’t conquer the world in 2011, but they got away enough times to avoid bordeom. A week in Mazatlan at Pueblo Bonito resort offered winter warmth. They did a week in Carlsbad by the Sea again.  Other than a major power outage, it was relaxing. On the way home they did an overnight at […]

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We’ve been hard at work creating our largest, longest, and scariest haunted house since we started in 2003. We are asking for a donation of canned food this year to benefit the Elk Grove Food Bank. Bring multiple food-stuffs to enter multiple times. We’ll be scaring guests, young and old, on 4 nights from Friday, October 28 through Halloween night from 6-10 pm. We can’t wait to see every body… and every head… and every limb…

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Do you remember the first time you learned how to ride a bike? I know I do, and I’m pretty sure it felt something like this kid.

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Patrick at Circus Circus in Reno.

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