Fishing

Fishing

For most anglers the attraction of fishing is to escape from the rigours of day to day life and get back to nature, even if it is just for a few hours.
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As well as regressing to our basic self, there is the added benefit of being in a position to observe, in a contemplative way, the flora and fauna which the waterside offers.
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To the casual observer it all looks rather boring and the angler can give the impression of being a rather lonely, solitary individual, but beneath that green brolly often sits a happy, relaxed person.

Team Hoyt

Team Hoyt

Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And if they’re not in a marathon they are in a triathlon – that daunting, almost superhuman, combination of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed mountains, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America.

It’s a remarkable record of exertion – all the more so when you consider that Rick can’t walk or talk.

For the past twenty five years or more Dick, who is 65, has pushed and pulled his son across the country and over hundreds of finish lines. When Dick runs, Rick is in a wheelchair that Dick is pushing. When Dick cycles, Rick is in the seat-pod from his wheelchair, attached to the front of the bike. When Dick swims, Rick is in a small but heavy, firmly stabilized boat being pulled by Dick.

I Can Only Imagine.

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Eastern Iowa Adventure

Fenelon Place Elevator

Is this Heaven? No, it’s Iowa.

Friday evening we drove to the Mississippi River and stayed overnight in Clinton.

We spent all day Saturday visiting eastern Iowa attractions.

We started out at the Cable Car in Dubuque.

Then we were off to the Field of Dreams Movie Site in Dyersville. They built it, we came to see it (eighteen years later).

Next, we headed south to the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa and saw a lot of interesting Old Motorcycles.

Still heading south, we got to the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site with about two hours remaining before it closed for the day.

Kosmix

Kosmix

At Kosmix, we’re passionate about building a world class search engine that lets people search less, and discover more great stuff. There are billions of pages on the web that are useful, but never see the light of day through a standard search engine.
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Right now we’re in the early stages of Kosmix, and at this point only cover a handful of categories.

Health
Video Games
Finance
Travel
US Politics

I’ve been using the Health and Finance categories. Great search results.