Monthly Archives: December 2009

Setting a destination and winning

What do I want to accomplish in 2010? (I’m long winded – if you get bored, be sure to skip to the end to enter the drawing for a free 8×10 Adventure Monkey canvas of your choice)  I feel like 2010 is a new beginning, a rebirth. I am not sure why this new year...

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Want to win a signed 8×10 Adventure Monkey Canvas?

I learned this year that we all have an Adventure Monkey inside us that needs to be fed. Some of us have families,  jobs and other comittments and feeding the monkey takes some planning. This planning may be financial, time management or whatever. To make sure the Adventure Monkey inside all of us gets fed,...

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You might need some new tires…

I went riding yesterday before Jennifer’s family came over and found out the tires on my Fargo are not optimal snow tires. This did not come as a big surprise, since they don’t have much tread on them, but I was a tad bit surprised at how bad they turned out to be. We had...

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Rails to trails, a nuclear missile silo and salvation through junkfood

Last Sunday I took a much needed ride. As I mentioned in the last post, we had a little drama in the Benjamin house and it had been awhile since I was able to take a really nice, long, all day bike ride. My Adventure Monkey was making those screeching monkey noises and rattling its...

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The worst bike ride ever

A lot has happened lately. The adventure of life never stops, especially with kids at home. Sometimes this is joyful, sometimes a challenge. As you know, I want to ride the transamerica trail with my son when he graduates high school in 2012. When hard times hit sometimes it seems as if that will never...

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