After writing an honest account of my turmoiled mind during a negative run in a post last week, I got to watch athletes prepare and race during the Nedbank South African Championships for the Disabled here at Coetzenburg for five days. A moving emotional experience watching their joy and excitement when I complain so bitterly [...]

Christoph Sauser and Burry Stander are in Yellow after stage 2 of the Cape Epic, riding with purpose and meaning to create awareness and and raise funds to build a bmx track in Kayamandi (Wikipedia) for the kids of the township. Ruth has been instrumental in the entire initiative and is spending the week on the Epic [...]

Stumbled upon my USN (home) profile page a moment ago. Always good to be reminded of things I’ve said…

(Dan Hugo USN Hero Page)

(View from the house)
Ruth and I spent the Easter weekend with my family at Langebaan up the West Coast. The flickr set shows Bundi (named in honour of Silvio Bundi), the new Ridgeback puppy / watch dog to be, Nico Pfitzemaier - a German Xterra athlete who mastered slalom skiing on his first weekend, my [...]

When catching up with Amber this week who’s just arrived from Reno, Nevada, a stone’s through from Truckee (Wikipedia) where Ruth and I will be based in four weeks time for 7 weeks, she enquired when we were heading over. In response to our 23rd April answer she insisted we shoud go skiing…

(Donner Pass outside [...]