Good Pix of Madison

We just came to terms with the seller of a condo on the eastern coast of Kauai.   Closing in mid-June. It’s a wonderful location, right in the middle of a park.  This picture doesn’t show the new Kauai Path that runs along the shoreline.  The beaches are amazingly white and nearly deserted.  Just north…

When we lived in Los Altos, we’d drive up Foothill Boulevard to where it turned up into the mountains. There is a big dam there, creating a nice reservoir — Stevens Creek Reservoir — around which there are several trails and parks.  (map).   We loved to go hiking there … and we still do…

We live adjacent to downtown San Jose, in a new townhouse/condo development called Mariani Square.   It is part of the Japantown district — so named owing to the, ahem, concentration of Japanese people living here in the 20th century (and still today). Even though this is “brownfield” urban land, I’m amazed at the flowers…

I told a friend recently that I wanted to “move to the cloud” in 2012.  He asked, “What does that mean?” It means dematerializing life as much as possible.  Fewer possessions.  Fewer claims. Less “stuff” to worry about.  And that is a good thing. I’m more interested in having access than I am in ownership. …