Range of Light "Looking eastward from the summit of Pacheco Pass one shining morning, a landscape was displayed that after all my wanderings still appears as the most beautiful I have ever beheld. At my feet lay the Great Central Valley of California, level and flowery, like a lake of pure ...

Years ago, we used to have the Olema Campout on the President's Weekend in February, cold and rainy! It lasted about five years and then another eight years after we moved it to the Point Reyes Hostel. Even though only Jean and I were there during the latter years of ...

“Sitting, more dangerous than smoking, kills more people than HIV, and is more treacherous than parachuting. We are sitting ourselves to death.” — Dr. James Levine, Mayo Clinic Sitting, like smoking, is clearly not healthy. Heart diseases and many forms of cancer prefer sedentary bodies, obesity and diabetes thrive with inactivity, ...

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible ...

  Having grown up in Vietnam during the 60's, I remembered the poverty of the Vietnamese populace and the sheer war-horror. On Memorial Day, my two treasured remembrances are to read "In Flanders Fields" and the Four Chaplains. In Flanders fields By Canadian physician John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, ...

A Journey together On the 39th Tierra Bella; Beautiful countryside Over a thousand joined this great ride Impossible without our volunteers Who made Tierra Bella a success with no peers; Janice and Ray Low Came from faraway Novato Although not filled to capacity, Michael Hudick and company Did our very best; I was impressed Our volunteers did everything Rita asked Together we accomplished ...

Imagine we are astronauts on a spaceship with a finite amount of supplies and space, one would not wastefully and carelessly use everything up. We all are -- this spaceship Earth. Like it or not, our daily choice of driving, walking, cycling, and a host of everything else, has a profound ...

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision" — Helen Keller The future of ACTC rests in part on our ability to motivate children to become life-long cyclists. In the last decade, we proudly supported children-programs such as Turning Wheels for Kids, Kidical Mass, and Aztec ...

"Pessimists see difficulty in every opportunity, and optimists see opportunity in every difficulty"  — Winston Churchill Yes, difficulties abound in the next few years. In this increasingly tumultuous time, from terrorist attacks and threats of more, partisan bickering, economic uncertainty, permits and fee escalation, and competition from many old and new ...

At a recent talk "Forgetting Names, Should I be Worried?" Stanford Professor Sharon Sha presented data showing that today's medicine has no cure for Alzheimer disease (we know that). Patients' mental capacity merely decreases at a slower rate with these medicines. The only two antidotes where patients retained or actually regained ...