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Our little group of Friday friends was up for a more ambitious ride today: past the Calero Reservoir, over Bailey to the Coyote Creek Trail ...

Perhaps it is not unusual that I so often hear mockingbirds when I cruise through Almaden neighborhoods. Seven of us met at an entrance to ...

On Day One of Waves to Wine in 2005, I sported my Champagne Club jersey from 2004 (which I also chose to wear today). It's an eye-catch...

Waves to Wine was the first charity ride I'd done, way back in 2003. I was the stoker on a recumbent tandem, and I didn't even have...

Black smoke. Was there a controlled burn today? That seemed unlikely, given where I guessed the source was. Black smoke meant that no one wa...

For much of the year, clouds are not a common sight in this area. Today's sky was positively brooding—a welcome shift from summer's ...

Friday night, around 9:30. A crash. Sirens. Paramedics. Teens gathering, two sitting on a curb comforting one another. Teens streaming past ...