hasta luego and some kayaking

I'm finally getting around to updating my blog. We started out last weekend with a pretty good adventure. You can read about that somewhere else on my blog. I wanted to continue the recount of the weekend adventure here. We first ended up hooking up with my sister and family. We played it low key and met at a park in Laguna. I only know it as Dinosaur or Prehistoric Park because it has dinosaur fossils and bones to play on. Laura, Mike and Liz Bailey and Liz, two peas in a pod It was awesome...

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the beginning of a labor day weekend

Since I've returned home from my backpacking trip last weekend, I've not wanted to do anything with anyone except that my wife, Liz, was there with me. So when the weekend started for Labor Day (long weekend!) I made sure she was there with me. We woke up Saturday morning and decided to go for a bike ride down the Santa Ana River Trail that leads directly to the PCH and Huntington/Newport Beaches. With Liz on her beach cruiser and myself on my Kona, we took off for a nice 1.5 hour leisurely bike...

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some spiritual and physical inspiration

So lately I've needed some more inspiration in spirituality and fitness. It's kind of weird that they get mentioned in the same post. But at this point, what motivates me for one, motivates me for the other. So quicker than I could reason out why, I picked up a heavy pen and marked down my two favorite scriptures on my gym shoes today. Picture below. It may be tough to actually see what the writing says on the front most silver stripes, so allow me to tell you. The left one says 1 Corinthians...

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