Shifting Gears   Baby Boomer…Member Life 2.0…Wife, Mother, Grammie…Bicyclist…GoldWinger…Mensan…Girl Scout…Reader…Knitter…Rotarian

Well after 4 nights at home we’re taking off again – this time to St. Louis for the Shrine Imperial.  Since there is a motorcycle ride tomorrow plus a parade on Tuesday evening, Burl is riding the motorcycle in a downpour while I follow all nice and dry in the other Honda!  I’ve had a [...]

Reflections from the rear of a motorcycle while traveling across the country: Signs of Springfield are everywhere – BNSF trains, Prime trucks and “Pro Bass” hats and stores It’s hard to avoid bad grammar – example “Lawn’s Services (xxx).xxx-xxxx” – I’m trying to figure out if someone named “Lawn” owns a group of services or [...]

Many years ago on this date I learned the real meaning of unconditional love – one look at Tamara Louise ( a middle name we share along with my mom and none of us used after marriage) and I experienced emotions I never dreamed existed.  Love in the purest form is reserved for my daughters [...]

…we are home!  Arrived about 3:30 this afternoon after a short riding day – <400 miles from Elk City, OK to Springfield.  Much as I love to travel, there is no sight better than driving into our driveway and then seeing Mulligan practically do cartwheels upon seeing us.  If you ever wonder about your importance, [...]

We are having a wonderful couple of days just relaxing in Phoenix with Mike, Annie and Devin.  Yesterday the guys played golf and Annie and I took Devin on his first long shopping expedition to Scottsdale Mall.  We were there 4 hours but that included a couple of stops for him to eat lunch and [...]

Yesterday we traversed the desert from San Diego to Phoenix – a distance of about 350 miles.  The first part of the ride was beautiful – we took a scenic route through the mountains and the sight coming down into Palm Desert was fabulous and the weather was tolerable – a bit hot but still [...]

It’s hard to be in LA without constantly hearing about 2 events – the Lakers lost the NBA championship to the Boston Celtics last evening and California legalized gay marriage sending a flurry of gays and lesbians to the altar yesterday on the first day they could officially “marry”.  I’ll reserve my comments on either [...]

Last evening I attended a hospitality event hosted by the Rotary Club of San Marino, CA.  Our group was picked up at our hotel and taken to the Old Mill in San Marino – the Old Mill is the oldest commercial building in San Marino dating back to 1816 and is now an art museum.  [...]

Today I’m blogging from the Rotary International Cyber-Cafe.  I just attended the opening plenary session which featured the presentation of flags of all countries where Rotary has clubs – a very impressive opening ceremony which made me realize how rusty my geography is since I’ve never heard of some of these countries, especially ones in [...]

Live- from a real PC this morning – we are at a ranch in the mountains of the Anza-Borrega Desert outside the small burg of Anza.  We got here yesterday and met up with other members of the International Fellowship of Motorcycling Rotarians – there are about a dozen of us here and last night [...]