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Two fat tire trucks within two blocks on tuesday.

Adventures in San Diego

Greetings internet travelers,

I've lost my main adventure drive: my mountain bike, and with funds running low, I've decided to move to safer havens among family and friends in San Diego. The adventures change to job searching and posts will wane further once school kicks in again. This blog will have some changes coming on soon to reflect the diversity of interests available with a more stable living situation. I will be biking again, but exercises in music and language and science and philosophy are going to get more focus here soon. I expect even a name change will be in order. Stay tuned.

Tranquila

Hi. on a ride in some los altos park on my burner bike: tranquila. She's a rusty old single speed cruiser, but she rolls alright. Lucky loo.

pilfered

On Saturday afternoon 10/13, while I was costume shopping with friends visiting from San Diego, my van was broken into through the same wing window that was broken before, and my bike and laptop in it's backpack were stolen. I had overestimated the safety of the area where I had parked, what I thought were houses were actually closed businesses across the street. Leaving the van parked on a street of closed businesses, even with my bike hidden inside the van, was a mistake. The neighborhood looked clean and quiet, but a quiet street is not the place to leave valuables unattended, residential suburbs and even the college campus were safer because of the foot traffic. There will always be that risk though, this could have happened at the college, I've been flirting with disaster having this fairly valuable equipment with relatively low security on it whenever I'm away from the van. I won't get another expensive mountain bike until I'm either renting a room or going on a bike trip again. Hopefully that will be very soon, biking is just the stress reducer I need for such stressful events as bike theft =/ my laptop I am not as concerned with, it was running badly, although I just ordered a video card to fix that =P but the data was mostly backed up. I suppose I'll find a replacement on craigslist soon. I'm going to work on my resume and look for that now. Bleh.

Sunset at funston

Fun at funston

Todays adventure has been playing Zelda:the phantom hourglass for the nintendo ds at fort funston. This game is awesomesauce. i biked pogonip/ucsc for hours yesterday, then owned a precalc quiz. I have a programming job interview on tues. Going good!

Another day in the life of..

Hello there. Spent last night in big basin. Oh the place i biked a few days ago is called pogonip. this morning i biked big basin and successfully jumped that fateful bump that landed me in the hospital 9 weeks ago. Woot! street camping los altos now

Santa cruz mountains

Spent the last few hours biking around this trail area near uc santa cruz. Most amazing challenging singletrack evar! the pic is a log jump wee there were alot of those but this was the biggest. Tata.

Wilder ranch

Just finished riding a bit of wilder ranch near santa cruz. cowboy loop was a tough singletrack climb studded with horse droppings. Started e.something loop which was a fireroad climb. a hole through a barbed wire fence was a fun freeride.

computer woes

Hello, my laptop has degraded furter, now going only as high as 640x480 in 4 bit color. The screen is covered in alternating cyan, magenta, yellow and all the rest lines. I'll get back to you.

China camp day roundup

Second china camp run complete. I am feeling great. fat tire and lentils mm. will be heading back to san fran tomorrow to see the new pornographers play. Very excited. Gnight=)

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I snorted electrolyte powder off my glove earlier. The only benefit was a burning sensation. Halfway through backwards china camp run.

Welcome to blog!

I found the secret spot. Back to china camp. Toodles.

Sudden

Sudden Oak Death, SARS of the plant world.

China camp

I am under the shade of a squat oak with a pink ribbon when a british family comes walking by. There is a mother and three kids 4g on a big wheel 6b with training wheels 8b on a slightly large bike the mother is walking and helping them along thereIs controversely a dog with them she chooses a steep climb for them to walk up their bikes and i hear her answer that they wouldnt zoom down unfortunately she was considerate not to take them on the singletrack this is china camp ceterall

Blog me

Tonight i write by candlelight

The Adventures Continue

Greetings! This is Bryan, a.k.a. greencow. This will be the start of my online log of my travels. I am already well into my adventures, so I'll briefly summarize how I got to where I am now, and perhaps revisit recent adventures later.

Since April of 2007 I've been living in a 1984 Volkswagen Westfalia Vanagon. I started in San Diego, and in July I moved to the San Francisco bay area. On my first weekend up here I crashed on my bike in Big Basin state park (SP) and spent the month of August recovering at a room I rented in the woods near Felton.

Almost 7 weeks later now and I'm hiking again, almost ready to get back to biking.