Carson City, Nevada has some very nice new and old multipurpose trails and a few good established bike routes. These are really important, because it keeps you off US395 through town; and, if you’ve driven through downtown Carson City, you’ll … Continue reading
Living on the road, you never know who you’re going to run into or how you appear to others. Our travels in 2011 drove this home. After building out the van, I needed to test it as an office space, … Continue reading
2011 was the year for taking our lives and work on the road. In today’s economy, driving a semi and pulling a 40 ft. trailer to writing/photo/video opportunities is prohibitively expensive, and flies in the face of our lifestyle: simplify, … Continue reading
Our office needed to update a laptop. We figured it’d be a good idea to make it a dual-purpose machine: a mobile video editor when needed in the field, plus an office production laptop with a large screen. We needed … Continue reading
Video is one of the media my office works in. When we needed to add a desk-based editing machine, I first looked at the Video Guys site for suggestions. Their hex-core DIY recipe looked appealing, but I felt we needed … Continue reading
My office is not a big one, so I look for reliable, small-footprint devices with value. I put thousands of pages through my HP LaserJet 1012 over many years, because of this reason. It was a rugged, reliable, simple printer … Continue reading
I really like Portland, Oregon. It’s a beautiful city. While I’m biased, having grown up in its suburbs, it really is beautiful. Nestled in the north end of the Willamette Valley,at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, it’s … Continue reading
After six weeks of planning and execution, on September 3rd, we finished the Far Midwest Tour of David’s Buick with author/musician Bob Saar and musician Patrick Hazell. Bob gave us a wonderful experience traveling 19 cities in 8 states over … Continue reading
A novel by Bob Saar with Original Music he wrote for the story. If you like reading interesting stories, especially about music, or about Iowa, or you wonder whatever happened to the children of the 60s, read this book. If … Continue reading
I love languages. Because behind every one and every person speaking one, there’s a story. I wish I fluently spoke a language besides English. My language of choice to learn over the last ten years has been Portuguese, and for some … Continue reading
