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It has been truly an honor to serve as the ACTC President these past eight years. Being on the Board previously for five non-contiguous years as Editor, Publisher, and Communication Coordinator, I knew what I was getting into. For a period of ACTC history, yelling and cursing at Board and ...

This Marching Band Played for Me

On top of beautiful Twin Peaks in a past ACTC tour of San Francisco, I was thrilled to see the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Marching Band making their way up. Marching bands are my favorites; I used to spend my whole day at the UC Davis Picnic Day ...

Luck, good or bad, depends on the eyes of the beholder

No luck! Argh! A train strike -- there went the plan to take the TGV and be back to Paris in a few hours. It took us nearly two days. The Musée de l'Orangerie is full of beautiful Monet's larger-than-life water lilies murals, except I never saw them because l'Orangerie was ...

If only we take the time…

When travelling, it is always exciting to visit historical places: the Paris Mouffetard cafés where Hemingway met with Gertrude Stein and Picasso; Gare St-Lazare where Monet would setup his easel; or Auvers-sur-Oise where Van Gogh roamed the melancholically beautiful wheatfield with crows in tow. Closer to home at Cannery Row, a faded wooden ...

A Dilemma

During our last visit to Dalian, China, a child, no older than 5, came up and hugged Jean, asking for money. We knew not to give children money or sweets because the apparent kind act may create beggars of them. Furthermore, parents then will send their children to beg rather ...

Money does not guarantee happiness

On our September low-cost self-supported Italian trip, it was predicted to rain and perhaps snow up at Passo Stelvio by noon that day. We all started bright and early and nearly everyone made it to the top before the rain. As we were waiting it out, warm inside a cafe with an ...

John Muir Slept Here!

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 ...

Old is New

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 ...

When You Tour by Bicycle, the World Is On Your Side

“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 ...

Taking the Long Way Home

Timeless travel books encouraged us to take a journey and to find our way. “One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eyes", wrote Antoine St-Exupéry in his children’s book “Le Petit Prince”. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness”, wrote Mark Twain in “The ...

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December 25th 2020
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See You Soon

It has been truly an honor to serve as the ACTC President these past eight years. Being on the Board previously for five non-contiguous years as Editor, Publisher, and Communication Coordinator, I knew what I was getting into. For a period of ACTC history, yelling and cursing at Board and ...
December 25th 2020
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Those who care are with us everywhere

A favorite song of mine is Kate Wolf’s “Gentle Warrior” with this beautiful ending. “We are crying for a vision That all living things can share And those who care Are with us everywhere” My term as ACTC President is almost up and we have a good slate of Candidates to fill ...

ACTC 2021

2020 is an agonizing year but time marches on. Soon it will be September and we will be nominating Members for the 2021 ACTC Board. I am proud to be the longest serving ACTC President and we have accomplished a lot together these past 8 years. My COVID-19 research this ...
April 17th 2020
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Lemonade Out of the Lemons

The Covid-19 threats are real and serious and underpin the Achilles’ heel of ACTC. Many diseases, not just Covid-19, target weakened populace: older patients, people with underlying respiratory problems, diabetes, asthma, or with compromised immune system. As ACTC Membership is ageing, ACTC Board, Tierra Bella, Sierra to the Sea, Academy ...

“Tomorrow” from Annie

“The sun’ll come out tomorrowBet your bottom dollarThat tomorrow there'll be sun! Just thinkin' about tomorrowClears away the cobwebsAnd the sorrow 'til there's none! When I'm stuck with a dayThat's gray and lonelyI just stick out my chinAnd grin and say, oh! The sun'll come out tomorrowSo you gotta hang on 'til tomorrowCome ...

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