Travel
New places, good meals, and the useful habit of having assumptions corrected.
Personal
Aviation leads. Other hobbies follow, sometimes irresponsibly.
Flying and aircraft building are the longest-running threads here. They sit alongside travel, caving, scuba, dirt bikes, and a general weakness for hobbies that require gear, patience, and occasional explanations to my wife.
Aviation
Flying, teaching, and building one rivet at a time.
I am a commercial pilot and flight instructor, and I built and fly a Van's Aircraft RV-8. Papa Lima Bravo is where I keep the aviation material: build notes, project decisions, references, lessons learned, and the occasional reminder that aircraft ownership is not a shortcut to simplicity.
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Other ways to make life complicated
Caving
Navigation, patience, geology, darkness, and a hobby that is hard to make sound normal.
Scuba
Quiet systems, deliberate movement, and another world just below the surface.
Dirt bikes
Skill, terrain, maintenance, and regular reminders that gravity remains undefeated.
Why it belongs here
Range is part of the point.
This side of the site is not a trophy shelf. It is mostly evidence that I keep choosing hobbies with steep learning curves and inconvenient equipment.