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John Whitmore. The father of South African surfing. Affectionately called, “Die Oom.” (The Uncle!) If you were a surfer in the ’60s, you saw the Bruce Brown film, “The Endless Summer.” It was like watching…

Today, our house went on the market. We’ve been working on the place for 5 weeks. It is shiny clean. New paint. Electrical and plumbing tuned up. The new owner could move in now! Just…

The most famous White Blaze in the entire world. The white blaze that guides you down the Appalachian Mountain Range in Eastern America, from Maine to Georgia. I think I took this photo in New…

Muizenberg Saturday morning, 7AM. Funny how a shot into the morning sun looks like evening! I didn’t get wet yet. Still tuning up my body a bit. I haven’t been stretching and strengthening, so I…

That is where most thru hikers start on their journey NOBO (northbound) on the Appalachian Trail. That is where I will be in October of this year. I will start in April at the 843.1…

By now you must know that I attend AA. That’s unless you just happened upon my blog. I’ve been “coming around” as they say, since June 28th, 1996. That’s 22+ years of sobriety, “one day…

Christmas. Is there a better time to climb closer to the heavens or Heaven, and just enjoy the day? I think not. My children are all grown. Far away as well. My wife and I…

I just read my last post. Wow. Living in another dimension. Another dimension. I don’t feel that way at all now. I am living exactly in the same dimension I was living in a month…

These are Sleeping Beauty’s feet. Socks and sandals. One of the best parts of SB, as I will call her, is that she just does. Does what is in front of her. “It’s cold out.…

I can’t believe I haven’t posted these photos!!! When I returned from Cape Town, after my gun scare, I decided I needed to do something uplifting, to help raise my mood. It worked! MacAffee Knob…