Just a short post to recommend a blog post from a blogger whom I follow, Old Man Gravel. Bob writes about his bicycle adventures in Iowa, his home state. We share interests and topics, and I eagerly await his posts each week. If you like his posts, please subscribe. His post this morning, Navigating the Road Ahead, is a nice follow-up to our post of this past weekend. It’s a useful roadmap for continuing to live our lives during this unsettling time; but doing so sensibly. Bob is avoiding the media, as his view is, it’s more noise than news. I’m not sure I fully agree, as it is important…

I have struggled to find an appropriate topic for this week’s post. All of my fun ideas about Senior Ripper adventures seem trivial and self-indulgent, in light of what is happening in the world, in our country and in our community. Our Senior Ripper generation has lived through a lot. The Viet Nam War, the moon landing, the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, 9/11, war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the great recession, just to name a few. And now Covid 19. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced. We were in New York City during 9/11, and that’s the closest I can come up with for what we are going…

Please don’t think for a second, that I mean a polar bear dip on a frozen morning. I’m a life-long swimmer, but outdoor swimming in the winter requires a heated pool. The kind of plunge that I am advocating for is one on snowshoes. Let me explain. A recent Saturday found me, along with 21 Senior Rippers and 2 dogs, at a trailhead in the Uinta Mountains as part of an organized trip through The Park City Mountain Sports Club, an all volunteer group of like-interested Parkites. It had been several days since the last snow fall so there were tracks up an old Mine Trail, the sky was blue,…

Just a quick post to celebrate the fact that I’m BACK ON SKIS!!!! I have had a smile on my face since Monday morning, when my PT gave me the green light to go for it. After a weekend in Palm Desert, where I played 18 holes of golf, pain free, and climbed a small mountain, also without pain, I had a feeling I had made significant progress from my injury (see Senior Ripper…Ripped), but I was surprised the “all-clear” came so soon. Mind you, I am confined to greens and blue groomers, but hey, I’ll take what I can get! And I’ve got many weeks left to try to…