I'm kind of lazy about this though, and after 25 or so things start to blur and I found myself reaching for the last 25. Consequently, I'm only going to do a few each day till it's finished.

1. I’ve been described as a risk taker. I prefer to think of myself as a risk evaluator. If others do it, and they usually don’t die or wreck their body too much, I can probably do it too!

2. In line with Risk Evaluation, I’ve parachuted, bungi jumped, ridden fast motorcycles, and raced cars at high speed.

3. I’ve had a Honda 90, Honda 175, Honda 350, 1969 Triumph Trident, a turbo charged Suzuki 1100, 2 Kawasaki 900s, 3 Kawasaki 1500’s, and a custom Kawasaki 2000 Cruiser.

4. I’ve had 5 VW bugs, all pre 1974, a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, a few Chevys and a few Saturns. My favorite cars were my Austin Healys. Everyone I ever talked with about Austin Healys had great stories about them. Each story would always contain, “That was the best car I ever owned, or I drove it right off the bridge, drunk as a skunk, but that sure was a fun car!

5. Once my best friend said, “I nearly died three times, and two of those times were with you!”

6. I used to be durable and my body relatively tough. I never broke a bone for the first 45 years of my life. Since then I’ve broken 3 really good (Bad).

7. I used to participate in some sports, Cycling, Wrestling, Martial Arts, Bowling and Motorcycling. The bowling and wrestling went first after high school, the cycling periodically makes a comeback, and the motorcycling is just for fun now.

8. My most successful sports effort was knocking a guy out with one punch in a Karate tournament. That wasn’t a technical knockout; He didn’t wake up for a minute.

9. The sports activity I’m most proud of was the charity bicycle ride I went on from San Francisco to Los Angeles over a week’s time. That was 550 miles, and I rode every inch of it, no bus rides. I hadn’t ridden a bike for 10 years and was 50 years old.

10. The best Olympic moment was watching the U.S.A. beat The Soviet Union in the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” Hockey game, with friends in Austria.

11. I believe 50 is the “New 35”, and that’s how I toasted my ankle, broken in 7 places. After all Brazilian Jiu Jitsu can’t be that hard can it?

12. I order to make sense of the future, you need to know the past. That’s why I like history and old artifacts, adobes, castles and petroglyphs.

I can’t take it anymore, that’s it for today!

Curiouoso*, after another long day during which he drove miles and miles and miles, from Power road & University to “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”