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Plans for 2024, my 70th year!

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Updated March 12, 2024 Reaching 70 and being in overall great health emotionally and physically is something I celebrate! Sure, I have my share of “age-related wear and tear”, but nothing yet is holding me back from enjoying life and… Continue Reading →

Iceman Triathlon, February 24

I did the Iceman Triathlon at Lake Pleasant two years ago and really enjoyed it, and this year was even better! Going into it, I was confident about the open water swim having trained for cold water and weekly swims… Continue Reading →

Alastair & Kathleen 2023 Highlights

Greetings and happy holidays to all!  2023 was a busy year for us, with family visits, travel, adventures, and a few challenges, so we decided to share an end-of-year summary with family. We hope you enjoy it! It was a… Continue Reading →

Training for our first 50k trail race

Alastair is the real runner in the family, having done multiple marathons over the years. I was a bit envious of all the great friends he was making during that time, so I also started road running in 2010. I… Continue Reading →

May 30 – Remembering my father, Stanley Bober

Remembering my father, Stanley Bober, 303rd Bomb Group veteran, who would have been 105 years old on May 30, 2023. My father’s parents were born in Poland and migrated individually to the United States in the early 1900’s. He was… Continue Reading →

Arizona Trail Stewardship 2023

Over the past couple of years, I’ve participated in trail work events on new sections of the AZT Passage 4 being built near the towns of Sonoita and Patagonia. My first event was in October, 2020, when I joined a… Continue Reading →

Cabo San Lucas – October 2022

I first traveled to Cabo San Lucas with my parents in 1991. They had retired to Tucson, AZ in the mid-80s, and then purchased a timeshare at the Pueblo Bonito Cabo Resort a few years later. By the mid-90s, my… Continue Reading →

Oracle State Park, Arizona

One of my favorite state parks in Arizona is Oracle State Park. The park is a 4,000 acre wildlife refuge in the northern foothills of the Catalina Mountains. Oracle State Park was originally a 160-acre ranch owned by the Kannally family… Continue Reading →

Kitchen Renovation – Spring 2022

I bought my house in the spring of 2002 and spent 6 months renovating parts of it (removing popcorn ceilings, redoing the floors, removing wallpaper, painting, updating electrical, etc). While we did minor updates to the kitchen, I decided to… Continue Reading →

Iceman Triathlon – February 26, 2022

Thinking that I *might* do an 70.3 for my 70th birthday, I thought it was time to get back into triathlons, not having done one since 2016. The Iceman Sprint Triathlon appealed to me because of the open water swim… Continue Reading →

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