Through The Lens

First Day of School and Work!

An emotional morning for everyone: pure excitement from the kids to finally be back in a physical classroom and a tear under the sunglasses from […]

Our Walkabout Two

A placeholder and link to our journey from California to Australia via Alaska and Europe during 2021.

Memorial Day on the Estero

Amazing to think we didn’t have kids the last time we took the boat from the Bordessa dairy to the end of Estero de Americano. […]

Last Annadel Ride

Who knows when we’ll be back riding the trails of Annadel State Park again, so I wanted to document the kids descending their favorite South […]

Last Mendocino Ride

The kids asked to ride JDSF one last time, I’m definitely not going to argue with a request like that. It was pouring with rain […]

Goodbye 2021 Ski Season!

Lisa was off on a girls’ weekend so the kids and I headed up for one last ski of the 2021 season (and I really […]

Happy Easter!

Getting ready for the egg hunt tomorrow morning

Riding Ross with The Professor

Kids had a student-free day today, so we headed back to our old digs in Marin to ride Ross with Sam Olesky…

Tahoe School Week

Back in November when we figured we were going to be doing this COVID-induced remote schooling for the long haul, Lance proposed doing a week […]

Christmas in Summit County

After a pretty magic week cutting up the slopes of Steamboat Springs, we headed back towards Denver to Summit County. The last time I’d visited […]

Steamboat Springs

We were checked into our flights to Colorado and standing outside at Oakland International Airport – trying to minimize our time indoors – when my […]

Alexander Valley School Christmas

Sadly no AVS Christmas performance this year, but COVID couldn’t stop our little pod celebrating the season with Mexican hot chocolate, making farolitos and exchanging […]

Mendocino Weekend

Everyone needed to get out of the house, so we scooted over to Mendo for a couple of days this weekend to enjoy the mild […]

Farewell Gladys!

Sadly earlier this year Lisa’s grandmother Gladys bid us all farewell after an exceptionally good innings of 93 years. She passed during the early days […]