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Kris Meets My Family and we go to Maine Part-1 The view of  our cabins on Thomas Pond as we arrived I t was 1987, the year Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down the wall in a speech in West Berlin. The big song for the year was “Faith” by George Michael, the Movie: “The Last Emperor”, TV show: “The Crosby Show”. That year Kris and I were either both at my place in SF or at Kris's studio apartment down in Mountain View. M y Mom called me and said that she was organizing a mini family reunion vacation that summer. She rented two cabins for a week that were side by side on Thomas Pond in Maine. When I was growing up our family had taken a number of vacations renting cabins on ponds in Maine's Sabego-Long Lake Region. Sabego-Long Lake is a little West and slightly North of Portland, Maine's largest city. Thomas Pond is between Raymond and Casco and the Thomas Pond feeds into Lake Sabago, the 2nd largest lake in the state of Maine after Moosehead Lake that's up north...

Running and the Bay to Breakers Kris and me in Golden Gate Park with our t-shirts after running the Bay to Breakers W hile I was living in Eugene there were plenty of physical activities I engaged in and I was doing something every day. It pretty much negated the need for me to set up any sort of exercise routine/program. I was playing 90 minutes of full court basketball two mornings a week. In addition, I was participating in rat ball (pickup basketball games at the university gym or under the freeway) multiple times a week. I was playing racquetball 2 or 3 times a week. I was swimming every once in a while at the university pool. I was doing Yoga. When the weather was nice I was going swimming in the river and playing softball once a week. All this plus I used my bicycle as my main source of transportation which meant I was riding it all over town everyday. I did many of these with my friend Frank. Frank was a runner. He'd run in high school and had kept up the...