Wind Chill (2012)
It was a sunny day, but the temperature barely got above 40 degrees. Riding a motorcycle in 40 degree weather may not sound unreasonably cold until you consider the wind chill. I had always been curious about exactly what wind chill means, so I did a bit of research about it ten years ago. Basically, it […]
Nutmeg and Laurel
The post below is from August 2005 when I placed a geocache not far off a trail near the Ridgefield, Connecticut “rails to trails” hiking path. Placement of the cache was approved by the Town of Ridgefield. Since then, geocaching.com shows that 89 people have had the pleasure of finding “Nutmeg and Laurel”, the name […]
Big Pocono Day
It was a hot hazy humid August summer day — perfect for a Harley Trike ride around the Pocono Mountains of Northeast Pennsylvania. Our first stop was at the Mount Airy Hotel and Casino in Mount Pocono. The Mount Airy building is very large, but it does not compare with The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, […]
Where’s The Music?
Music has been one of my favorite things for as long as I can remember (see music category here in patrickWeb for stories). Where is my music? Some of it is recorded on circular pieces of vinyl stored in boxes in my attic. The music used to rotate at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute on […]
Johannes Brahms
The Variations on a Theme of Haydn by Johannes Brahms was good, the Suite from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was excellent , but the Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 was fantastic. His second symphony was composed by Brahms, the German compser, during a visit to Austria during the summer of 1877. The composition […]