Three great affordable wines that are sustainably produced and dry farmed–just what you need for Earth Month!
the angel symbolizes the winery’s philosophy to be a positive force and influence.
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Today being TAX DAY in the US, perhaps it’s time to pay a tax to the environment? It doesn’t have to be cash: it can be an action as simple as picking up someone else’s litter or making a change in your lifestyle. Can you bring your own cup next time you buy coffee? Can you use a glass or stainless steel bottle for your water or other beverage? Can you bring your own bags to the store? Can you cut back on how much meat or processed foods you eat?
One focus of Earth Month this year is ACTION and CLIMATE; Read more…
Want to call Cuba? And maybe make plans to visit now that the US and Cuba are talking again? Read more…
Rick Lupert On Poetry Super HWY 101
It’s National Poetry Month!
PCT Class of 2015 shadow self
In 2015 each week on Sunday I strive to publish an interesting fact about the number 53.
2015 is also the 3oth anniversary of my hike from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Last week I hiked the first 53 miles from Mexico to Pioneer Mail Picnic Area.
For this week’s interesting fact about the number 53, here are 53 faces I met during those 53 miles–starting with the first person I met, El Rocko.
PCT Class of 2015 Art Predator and El Rocko
Because I was walking south, I also met these 27 faces on the first day:
53 Interesting Facts About The Number 53 #12: First 53 Miles of the Pacific Crest Trail
The first 53 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada start just a mile or so south of the small, spread out town of Campo and end at the windy Pioneer Mail Picnic area in the Laguna Mountains.
I am hiking these 53 miles from Saturday March 28 to Tuesday March 31. Thirty years ago, in 1985 I hiked all of California, so this is an anniversary hike of sorts.
Saturday March 28 I hiked 20 dry hot miles south through the desert from Lake Morena to the border. Details to come here.
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“Hold still, there’s a tick on your cheek!”
That was my greeting the first morning backpacking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada: April 22, 1985.
Getting water from the gutter of the interstate, climbing Mt Whitney a few weeks later, hiking 12 miles on a cough drop and half a bar, wrestling food from a bear in Yosemite, crossing blue-white glacial streams in Oregon, hiding from rain in pit toilets in Oregon and rest areas in Washington: these memories from completing all 2800 miles of the PCT are etched permanently into my synapses to make it an adventure that informs every day of my life.
Can you imagine what it is like to backpack over 2600 miles from one end of the United States to the other?
No, honestly –you can’t. Even if you’ve been backpacking, unless you’ve done the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail or the AT or similar long distance hike you really can’t imagine what it’s like–it’s not really backpacking.
Many have tried. I tried. I did it. What we can offer you is a tantalizing hint.
Some of us can offer more.. I hope so. In the coming weeks, I will do a 30th anniversary trip on as much of the California section of the PCT.
To get a glimpse of the transformation that occurs, watch Andy’s video. He says “The end of the trail is just the beginning of the story.” Visit http://www.LostorFound.org to learn more about a new short film, Lost or Found: Life after hiking 2600 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Andy’s personal website is at http://www.davidhazy.com
Am I a member of the Grammar Police? As a college writing teacher, it falls on me Read more…
Dr Yes came up with the brilliant idea of doing a parody of the song “Favorite Things” from Sound of Music mashing it up with images from Burning Man. It’s pretty fun, and if you’re feeling bad, just remember a few of your favorite things and then you won’t feel so bad. Lyrics and new video by Dr. Yes with vocals by Jasmine Chloe includes these inspired phrases: “lighting of darktards” “lamplighters on parade Hudson’s illusions”
Yep, it’s pretty fun, but you know what’s not? Getting permanently blinded in one eye and partially blinded in the other when you’re volunteering as a Ranger during the Man Burn.
Because that’s what happened to Kelli aka Ranger Halston Read more…
Love Italian food? Then you should definitely get to know these Italian wines! Chianti pairs well with pizza and pasta –but also lamb shanks and rib eyes!
“Wine and life…They are as inseparable as the sun
and the warmth it brings.”—Gabriele Tacconi, Ruffino Winemaker
Recently Que Syrah Sue and I participated in a Ruffino Chianti tasting of four wines hosted by Snooth and with a video chat. The occasion for the tasting was their release of their new top of the line “Ruffino Riserva Ducale Oro Chianti Classico Gran Selezione 2010.”
There were four wines in the line-up, and we tasted them in this order. Reviews of each follow.
Ruffino Chianti DOCG 2013
Ruffino Aziano Chianti Classico 2012
Ruffino Riserva…
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