A short report this time as there isn’t much to say about this one. My wife and I had a weekend to ourselves and we love to get out and ride. Our favorite destination is still Cuyahoga Valley National Park as it’s a good out and back with options if we’re in the mood to…
Some days, things end up in such a way as to allow us a little more space. On other days, we have to make that space. In either case, when it’s time to take a minute, it’s time. So it was on this past Tuesday. I found myself with some time that I’d carved out…
As July comes to a close, we’re starting to see the calendar ramp up for the back to school season in our house. That means that my phone is always covered in new things being added to the calendar. It gives a sense of pressure. There’s almost a mania to the closing out of summer….
The last couple of weeks of July in NE Ohio are when everyone seems to empty out and head to a vacation destination. School will kick off for the kids earlier than usual this year, so everyone is grabbing that last trip to someplace else. And that means that the parks are quiet. After my…
The Warthog! I took a day off from work and having cleared some time off at home, found myself in the position to have the better part of a day to do a rove. I’ve been thinking about this for a while so the hard work of looking at the map and seeing that I…
There are as many ways to enjoy this hobby as there are people enjoying it. Plenty of categories for one to assign to one’s self. There are contesters. There are DXers. There are experimenters and kit builders. There are CW only operators. There are paper chasers. Some are rag chewers. There are the microwave operators…
Last week was big for my family. My wife and daughter were at camp while my son and I held down the fort and fed the dogs. With the ladies home safe and sound, and knowing that it was Support Your Parks Weekend, I angled for a time to get out to Cuyahoga Valley National…
Learning The Code Learning CW is, like most most skill acquisition processes, a journey. It reminds me a great deal of learning a musical instrument. There are times when it’s nothing but a grind to master a piece of it in order to move to the next level. And then there are moments when something…
With all of the fun and adventure of our week plus in the U.P. I was afraid that it would be a bit of a downer coming back to the same old, same old. Happy to report that is not the case. After using rental bikes on the trails in Copper Harbor, we took our…
The Plan This year, we decided to do a similar trip to what we did last year. We packed up the camper and headed to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for some time close to Lake Superior. We had a great trip last year and got some idea of what’s available. It’s a lot of…