Remembering my brother: George Kaufer, Jr.
Tonight I lost one of only four people in the world who have been in my life since the day I was born. Tragically, my brother George passed away in our hometown of Walnut Creek, California after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle on his way to a after his dentist appointment in […]
Oh what a year! Some highlights from my 2012
As the year comes to a close it’s time to look back at the previous 12 months and look at all that it brought to me and my life. As is the case with most years, it was full of surprises, challenges, laughter and a few tears. But overall it was a good year and […]
Revisiting My Vision Quest Adventure 20 Years Later – Part 3 (Paris)
Now that I had Paris as a new target, I began cycling west of Brussels. I haven’t written too much about the actual cycling but up to this point in my trip, it really had gone about as well as I could have expected. Of course, it helped that I began my journey cycling through […]
Chasing Your Vision Quest
In my last blog post I wrote about “game-changing” experiences that shape us forever. Twenty years ago today, I embarked on an adventure that proved to be the biggest game-changing experience of my life. First, some quick background. I wrote earlier about how I felt I needed to shake things up in my life after […]