Golden Gate National Recreational Area

A reader known as Sir Ack wrote in and asked about my Bunker picture and pointed out that it did not look like something you would find in Golden Gate Park. He was right and right to guess that I meant Golden Gate National Recreational Area! Thanks for pointing out my mistake! MONEY

I think this is where the bunker is, but if anybody has more info, please let me know: MONEY

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Saving money on home improvement

I have several posts mulling around in my noggin but I have been too tired at night to get them out this week as we have been getting home from work and going straight to work, scraping the old peeling paint off the side of our house.


You can tell from the second picture how high I up I have to go to clean up the second floor windows and and digging into the old paint with a hand scraper that high up is kinda not cool.


But we have been scraping and painting one side of the house each year for three years. I have not priced out how much we are saving, painting ourselves, but I imagine it would buy a Wylie fund or two...


I just realized I do not have a good picture of either of the two sides we are done with. This one shows the front which we painted last year. The new color we are using is similar, but a bit more blue. You can also see the bags of leaves and pine needles we raked up, waiting to be taken to be composted by our town. Yes, we also do our own 'landscaping' which probably saves us enough for a few months of subsequent investments in a Wylie fund or two.

Walk for Hunger photos!

Yesterday, my wife and I did the Walk for Hunger. Click on any of the images for a larger version.

We got up at the crack of dawn and took the pike into town.

We parked the car and registered at the Boston Common. When you get up this early, the crowd is pretty small. 43,000 people did the walk yesterday.

We walked down Comm Ave and saw some dogs.
We saw metal dogs. See the ball?

We saw big French dogs!

Then we walked under Mass Ave.

Some chipper volunteers guided us through Kenmore square...

...past Fenway Park.

We ran into a friend from Berklee!

Near Boston College, we saw some geese.

All along the 20 mile walk there were signs teaching us about hunger...

...about ouch...

...and about Soylent Green.

I never did figure out what "sunscree" was.

But I always knew how far we had traveled.

This sign was at about mile 10, the halfway point. If the "It" he was referring to was "walked half way", then he spoke the truth! Hard to argue with a pointer like this, regardless.

Soon after, the trail leads to the Charles river, where Harvard and MIT teams practiced rowing.

The views of downtown Boston were amazing, even in cloudy, windy weather.

Along the Charles River, there is a place where water fowl rule!

It never rained, despite the dark clouds.

We approached the Mass Ave bridge and prepared to cross it.

Once across the bridge, we were in the home stretch.

Back down Comm Ave, we passed statue after statue.
I was jealous of this guy, and ready to sit down!

Near the end, the sun started to break through.

We could see the finish line. Where did all these people come from? (cheaters!)

At each checkpoint, we got a mark or stamp.


And in the end, we made it. There were 43,000 walkers
and together we raised over $3.3 million!

Until next year...