The sun was high and hot in the sky, glistening off the salt flats in western Utah. It was not yet midday and I was already baking, hiding wherever I could find a strip of shade. There wasn’t much to be had, though, at the starting line for the World of Speed races, so I […]
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Racing at Utah’s Miller Motorsports Park
I stood nervously by the side of the track watching the drivers zip by, managing the tight curves I knew I didn’t have the skill to handle. I wasn’t worried about crashing, I knew I could keep the car on the course, I just didn’t want to make a total fool of myself amongst what […]
Olympic Memories: Alpine Skiing
My father and I had so many great experiences at the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympics it’s not even funny. To sum them up in three brief entries is impossible as I created a whole scrapbook of the event, and still could’ve put more in there about what we did and saw. From watching Americans […]
Olympic Memories: Ice Hockey
If I had to choose one event to see at the Olympics it would be ice hockey. I grew up in Minnesota and thus grew up an ice hockey fan. I became interested in the sport too late to play, which is about 8-years-old in Minnesota, but held on to that love nonetheless. So, when […]
Olympic Memories: The Luge
A lot of memories are flooding back to me from my 2002 trip the Salt Lake City Olympics with my father thanks generally to the Vancouver Olympics currently taking place in British Columbia, Canada. There are so many great things that I experienced while there that it’s difficult to talk about them in one post; […]
Hawaii with the Judo Guys
I really now do understand why there are huge guidebooks that are printed just for travel to Hawaii. We saw so much on O’ahu that I can honestly say it’d be easy to take a week or more for each of the islands. There’s just so much to do and see it’s really quite insane. […]
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