When I first started to write this blog a couple of years ago, I explained in detail (anyone who read it would probably say “painstaking detail”) how I came up with the name of this blog.

Unfortunately, as I have previously noted, everything from CTB 1.0 was lost last April.  Some things I was able to recover, including a few of my favorites here and here.  But not everything. Continue reading →

“The hardest part,” I said to Carlos, “is the final push to go over the edge.  If you have the balls to make that push, it’s a fun ride from there on.”

We were half up the tower to the top of the H2-Oh-No waterslide at Mountain Creek Waterpark in Vernon, NJ.  I knew what was coming, and I knew I needed to get Carlos pumped up to overcome his fear if he was going to keep his promise. Continue reading →

Short post today (but 2 video links!) – just trying to clear the clutter from my brain . . .

A few years ago, I texted a photo to a friend of mine.  It was the view of the Wasatch Mountains from my office in downtown Salt Lake City. Continue reading →

I’ve had a lot of things banging around in my head, some for quite awhile now, so time to get some of them out of there and into a post or three or five.  Otherwise they will just keep banging around and clogging up the system.  Need a good brain flush!

First up – Free Falling!

I wrote about this a long time ago, in CTB 1.0.  But unfortunately, it’s a post that I lost. Continue reading →