Spring and Fall weekends are very often spent cycling with friends or with the FIVE BORO BIKE CLUB. I worked as a Cycle Guide in France for many years for BROOKS COUNTRY CYCLING TOURS INC. Most summers since the sixties have been passed overseas cycling and camping self-supported with my stalwart brother or with friends all the way from Galway to Vienna. A few years ago I became the proud owner of a BIKE FRIDAY AIRGLIDE It's a terrific touring machine. It goes in a shoulder bag or a suitcase and it really holds the road on the European cobblestones or long mountain descents when loaded. Winter finds me in the snow; most often in the North East with the SKI CLUB OF NEW YORK or with the MIRAMAR SKI CLUB.

When not in the sun or the rain I spent my days working with groups of disabled young adults of high school age. Most days I enjoyed very much. It was like being paid to have a hobby. I retired a few years ago. I'm now enjoying a new lifestyle filled with travel and adventure when I want to go and not only when I have vacation time. When in town I broadcast for the In Touch National Network and do some voiceovers. Most of all I'm exploring this gift of fortune (and planning); a worry-free retirement.

I come from a very small town in Nebraska. I still have friends and family there and try to get back once or twice a year.

In the summers I cycle overseas for a few weeks. See a compendium HEREThe past summers have been spent in the Perigord, site of the chateau in the picture above, along the Danube from its source in the Black Forest across Germany and Austria to Vienna, down the Rhine from its source in Switzerland near Andermatt as far as K? backtracking to ride the Moselle to Luxembourg and continuing on to the North Sea. The Moselle with my brother and then rode in Ireland with a trio of lovely ladies. A short tour down the Loire Valley and then a mountain tour, from Geneva through Savoie and the French Alps to Provence, finishing in Avignon. Next my brother and I sampled the beer and oysters of Brittany while doing the necessary pedaling to get from one bar to the next before riding with a group of friends down through Maritime Alps to Nice. This past summer it was Perigord again. Anyone can do this. To find complete notes on doing these trips yourself including bike friendly routes and hotels click PROVENCE DO IT YOURSELF and PERIGORD DO IT YOURSELF this summer it will be FORTRESS TO THE SEA, DO IT YOURSELF

I usually manage to ride BIKE FLORIDA and help to plan BIKE NEW YORK. If you see anything you like shoot me an email. The link is below.

Concert with the GLASS MENAGERIE.