a girl with a few interests
I was travelling in New England & found myself driving. Bob showed up in passenger seat and was in charge of the gas pedal. I was happy but a little concerned about speed & navigation matching. We ended up in Portland, in an industrial part like near Casco Bay Lines & this is where he [...]
I’ve always thought about writing detailed restaurant reviews here at crimsonic but always just defaulted to yelp due to its ease of use and ubiquity. however, i had such a great experience at nopa last night, that i decided to pop my proverbial restaurant review cherry here. for months now i’ve been seeing my friend [...]
This is the first time in my almost 8 years living in the Bay Area that I celebrated Pride weekend ALL WEEKEND! SATURDAY My friends Jim and Kiki live in a great apartment that overlooks the Dyke March‘s route so they open their doors to us almost every year so we can watch/participate. The Dyke [...]
Shannon has a little medley he likes to sing every once in a while.It goes like this:“Solid. Solid as a rock, steady, steady rockin’ all night long.” I can’t remember why it came up tonight but we realized it’s a medley of two songs from the 80s that use “rock” in the chorus so off [...]
AIDS/Lifecycle 8 was a mixed bag for me starting with fundraising finishing with the ride itself. – I wanted to raise $5k and made it as far as $3600, which is awesome, just not what I was aiming for. – I had physical challenges that kept me off of the bike for about 160 of [...]
1.From someplace extremely high above a city, we jumped. As if skydiving, with thrill and safety.Sylvia led the way. I screamed in stomach flip-flopping fear/excitement.It was scary but fun.A red metal structure made of bars came zooming into view, still very far away from the tops of skyscrapers. I got nervous about landing on it [...]
I did a little “cross training” today. It’s supposed to be the last rest day in a rest week so I shouldn’t be doing any training but I was late for the train so I started jogging. I missed it so I went to the store for some water since the Saturday Caltrain schedule gave [...]
These are my teammates. My coach, riding buddy, partner and best friend, Shanny Bannanny Sis Boom Bammy aka Shannon Shalako. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t feel as prepared as I do for this crazy seven day ride from SF to LA! realistic energy chew, no? Justine Bateman Veber, Jetson, Juicy, or Justin Case, [...]
On Monday, May 4th, Shannon and I had biking fittings with the awesome Lorri Lee Lown, of Velogirls – Northern California’s largest women’s cycling club. Shannon discovered her on the ALC8 discussion forum when she responded to his post regarding his saddle. He told me about her because he knew that I needed a proper [...]
…for MILES! For Shannon’s birthday last week, we went to Santa Cruz to see his step mom and go for a long training ride thru a new area.We decided we’d go thru Watsonville and discovered that our route took us straight thru the ripe strawberry fields. OMG – YUM! It smelled amazing. We took a [...]