http://www.kelsch.com Our life and our familiy Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:56:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This was our first port in Italy.  Some of us had been to Florence before so the thought was to visit only Pisa.  Others wanted to go to Florence instead.  It was a train ride to each location from the port.  We heard the night before that there might be ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/11/florence/ Our Mediterranean Cruise offered only a single port of call in France but it was a spectacular one, maybe the most beautiful of all the places we would visit.  As we we getting up in the morning we saw that the ship was  approaching Villefranche and the view was breathtaking. ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/11/one-day-in-france/ We did not have a full day in Barcelona since we needed to be on the cruise ship before 6 pm.   After checking out of the hotel, we waited to meet everyone for a whirl wind tour of the second largest city in Spain. Before we left the US we had ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/11/barcelona/ The time has finally arrived for us to leave for our Mediterranean cruise. Last night I went to the camera store in San Jose and bought a new super wide angle lens to take, hoping it will come in handy in Europe. We had a lousy route to ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/11/leaving-on-a-jet-plane/ Someone special in our family reached a new milestone, birthday wise.  I decided to make a birthday card, instead of buying one.  I wanted to get an image from each of the 60 years of Ann's life but we don't have any images of many of the early years.  I ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/11/someone-had-a-birthday/ Long before most people had up a personal website, I started a website at one of my domains, kelsch.com. The problem with websites is trying to keep them current and updated. Eventually the information there was so out of date that I gave up and changed kelsch.com to ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/11/personal-websites-make-over/ Fall usually means cooler temperatures and changing colors of the leaves.  But this is California and fall here is often like summer elsewhere.  It was a lazy day today and I did not want to do to much because I am racing tomorrow up Henry Coe.  A nice bike ride ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/10/fall-day-bike-ride/ Seems like my recent entries have all been about some new speed thing.  But when we work hard to bike fast I guess I like to write about it.  Today we did a club ride up Henry Coe on the tandem.  I kind of got the idea to push the ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/10/fast-henry-coe-tandem-climb/ Today we decided to ride the tandem on the weekly club ride "Metcalf Mauler".  We started in Morgan Hill and rode up the bike trail to San Jose.  Metcalf is a hill that we often time ourselves on and today we set a new record for how fast we could ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/09/mauling-a-metcalf/ This morning we got up to stormy weather. We had heard the rain all night in our Utah home and figured we would not be able to get in any running or cycling. Later in the morning the rain stopped so we decided to go out for a ... http://www.kelsch.com/2008/09/morning-run-and-afternoon-ride-to-the-snow/