If you live in California, Oregon, or Washington but are not an especially frequent flyer it still pays to be enrolled in two airline mileage programs to capture the benefit of the trips you do take.
Membership in more than these two mileage programs means that you are scattering your miles …

Right after I got back from Reno three weeks ago my old laptop failed me. Specifically, the “on” button kind of collapsed into the case. I couldn’t turn the darn thing on.
I went to a local computer store and they in essence said, “Your laptop is dead. …

I’ve been in Reno many times over the past 45 years, for fun (as a child, young adult, and middle-aged adult), and for work when I was with Amtrak or AAA. Reno’s downtown area has been on a largely downhill slide since the late 70s but there are signs …

In my last post I gave a leg-by-leg account of my team’s experience running the Reno-Tahoe Odyssey (RTO). This post takes a look at Eric Lerude, the fellow who conceived and brought to life the event.
But first a warning.
Be careful what new challenges you tackle as they may cause …

For runners or non-runners who’ve never done a relay event like the Reno-Tahoe Odyssey (RTO) that I just wrote about, here’s a an explanation followed by a chronology of my team’s experience this past weekend. The chronology will turn the abstract into the real.
A course of up to about …

How long would it take you to run 178 miles?
Could you do it faster with some friends, each of whom ran one portion then tagged another runner to continue the challenge?
How about if you had a team of 12 runners in which each runner ran three separate segments?
In this past …