Bike ride in Half Moon Bay

Bike ride along the Half Moon Bay Coastal Trail

We took Cortnie, Audree, and Chase to Half Moon Bay for a bike ride along the coastal trail and then some beach time. It was a lot of fun. Chase, who is four, needs to graduate to a larger bike before we ride farther […]

Photo: Champion Sparkplug Mine

Champion Sparkplug Mine

High on the slopes of White Mountain is the old Champion Sparkplug Mine (also known as the Jeffery Mine). The mine produced high-grade andalusite that was used in production of pre-WWII Champion Sparkplugs. It’s tough to get there, with a challenging 4×4 road and equally challenging trails that haven’t been maintained […]

Mountain Lion install

OS X Mountain Lion lives on my desktop now. The install was straightforward, although with the OS and related app updates that were also released today, the download was over 7 Gb. The automatic reboot hung (seems like that’s happened on previous OS updates), but a power off/on cycle fixed it. I have a couple […]