I tweet, and I follow a lot of twits. But I unfollow every day. Why? Because I don't want to get text messages, I want small info bytes that helps me with my work, or informs me in some other valuable area. I want tweets on topic, and with links. Here's a list of examples of what I think are good and bad tweets.
BAD
You get the picture. So, you ask, what's a good tweet? GOOD
You get the picture. So now if you see I've unfollowed you, please don't take it personally. Or do, and tweet smart.
The Promontorio del Garganano doesn’t seem to belong to Italy at all.
It is a geographic anomaly, a hunk of earth that lunges out into the
sea. Millions and millions of years ago it started moving here from Dalmatia
to settle uncomfortably, and now it seems to reach southeast toward
Greece. Perhaps in another few million years it will have crossed the Adriatic and Ionian seas to reach its destination. Or maybe the fault will move it back on home to Croatia. It's a wonderful road trip, by car or motorcycle or even bicycle, with lots of camping and hotels in the villages, swimming, hiking, and small town charm. Read the article.
A hairdresser by trade, Cindi Servante has made a major dent in the fight against helmet hair by developing satiny "Style Saver Scarves" to wear under your motorcycle helmet. "They're based on the concept of those satin pillows women used to sleep on to keep their hairdos in shape in the days when they used to all go get their hair done once a week," she told me. Mine is a "Haight Ashbury" with a paisly print, which is her favorite as well, though the snake skin prints are pretty hot, too.
Before you put on the scarf you part your hair in the opposite direction, then slip it over. Because the fabric is so satiny, your motorcycle helmet just slides on over it, and when you take off your helmet you just flip your hair back to the way it's supposed to be parted and fluff a little and, voila, no more helmet hair!
It's also fashionable enough to wear even when you're not riding. Yay, Cindi! Visit Style Saver Scarves on the web.
You just might not get kicked out of your club if you show up on this: The
Suzuki Boulevard M90 is a sport bike disguised as a cruiser, rumbling up
like a Harley-Davidson and zipping away like a Ninja. With accessories
it could function nicely as a light touring motorcycle, too. And with a
price tag of $10,599, you might find it almost irresistible. For the experienced rider only. This power in this muscle bike can literally blow you off the back. Read my short piece about it in examiner.com.
Attention
all road trippers, bikers, and tourists: Here's a great stop in a loop
from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Sacramento Delta area on Sunday,
July 12.
Did you know that one in three mouthfuls of the food we eat comes as a result of the work of honeybees? These pollinators are in trouble and that's why Slow Food Delta Diablo invites you to spend a day at Knoll Farms in Brentwood touring the farm, eating lunch and learning about honeybees and the important relationship between thoughtful farmers and mindful beekeepers.
Learn about the life of the honeybee, the world-wide threat to honeybee health and what beekeepers and farmers on the urban fringe are doing to sustain the lives of bees. Learn about bee habitat and what the public can do to improve and support the lives of honeybees and other pollinators.
$20 Slow Food members
$30 non-members
$15 students (age 15 and up)
Well-mannered children under 15 may attend at the student price; however, there will not be child-targeted activities at this event.
Activities will include a talk and beekeeping demonstration by Alan Hawkins, beekeeper at organic farms in Brentwood, Tracy, and Marin, a tour of the farm and bee habitat with Rick Knoll, and a showing of Pollen-Nation, a short award-winning film that discusses the threat to bee health. (See movie trailer here.)
Enjoy a delicious lunch that features Knoll Farms honey and produce.
The day closes with a tasting of a variety of artisan honeys from around the country.
Wear light colored clothing and a hat as you will be on a working farm with thousands of bees in the air. Beekeepers are welcome to bring a veil.
Lodging in and near Brentwood.
Map of Brentwood.
(This article also published in examiner.com.)
I'm home in the San Francisco after my Alps to Atlas journey on a Ural sidecar motorcycle. You can read my dispatches and take a look at my twitter page for reports on this 2009 journey from Linz, Austria to the Sahara desert and back. The trip took me through a range of environments from cold, high mountains to hot, flat deserts in Europe and Morocco. I'm updating the stories and photos as I can and will let you know when new material is available. Thanks for following the adventure!
Last day in the Alps - The Dolomites - before returning the Ural and flying home to San Francisco.
I've been posting dispatches to my site about my journey on the Ural from the Alps to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. No, I'm not in Morocco yet! But I've made it to Mandello to visit with my friends at Moto Guzzi, and to stay at Annamarie's B&B over looking the lake and at the foot of a trail through the Alps. In fact, I took a small hike this morning to a place on the river where the basalt boulders have been worn into bowls by the alpine waters rushing down most of the year. Lying on a boulder shaped like a lounge chair in the dappled sunlight, I needed nothing else in life at the moment. But here are the dispatches and photos from the past days crossing the Alps from Linz to St. Moritz to Lake Como, through Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Read the dispatches. I take off about noontime to the Mediterranean coast and head west toward Spain. I'll probably camp tonight, maybe the next night, too, so dispatches may not be forthcoming for a few days. I will be twittering though, if you care to get micro-updates.
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