I’m in Dallas for four nights at an airport hotel for a series of meetings. The view from my room is beautiful-see below.  Fortunately, I’m near a Mexican resturant that I really like Via Real in Los Colinas-already eaten there twice. I was also able to find a nice pool at the North Lake College… Continue reading #42 The Big D and my first senior discount…

There are eight traditional prestigous eastern Ivy League schools in America In this quest for 50 pools I have been fortunate enough to swim in the natatorium of three of them; Penn, Harvard and Brown.  Through some Google Images home work of my own and very reliable anecdotal conversation I am happy to report that… Continue reading #41 Best of the Ivy’s

I wish I could come up with a more exciting post about #40 however I am feeling just about as creative as the pool I swam in this morning.  It was the lap pool at the JW Marriott Orlando/Grand Lakes. I am here for the Merrill Lynch AES meeting. The pool is attached to the… Continue reading #40 Ordinary

Fun day today swimming in the 2nd annual Boston Sharkfest Swim with my friends Rachel and Tucker.  It was a 1500 meter swim from East Boston boat marina to the Moakley Courthouse by Fan Pier.  It was suppose to be a nice warm day but during registration and before the swim it felt like it… Continue reading 2013 Boston Sharkfest

Flash back circa 1989 to the Vanderbilt YMCA in midtown New York City on 47th between 2nd & 3rd.  It was early morning as I stepped off the red eye from Los Angeles with two suitcases and hopped in a taxi to my new temporary home the Vanderbilt YMCA. At that tender age I was young… Continue reading #39 The YMCA Flashback

In my opinion, there is a lot wrong with the bipartisian politics and our politicians in Washington DC. When our elected officials can’t find some compromise that averts shutting down the federal government, raising the debt ceiling or agreeing on plan where both parties sacrifice in order to get our fiscal house in order– it’s… Continue reading #38 Politically speaking…

Yup-yesterday I finally became a Havahd man by swimming in the Blodgett Pool.  While I have been there many times for swim meets in particular the MIAA State Championships it was the first time I really swam in the pool. I don’t count the times when I have been thrown in with clothes on for… Continue reading #37 Pahk the cah in Havahd Yahd!

Never in my life have I ever seen a sign like the one below when walking into a pool. This outdoor pool was at the Shaw Park Aquatic Complex in Clayton, Missouri. Clayton is one of the nicer suburbs of St. Louis which made seeing the sign even more startling. I still went in nonetheless.… Continue reading #36-A first time for everything

It’s not often that I get to swim in two outdoor pools in one day let alone two facilties so closely associated with the Olympics. Sweet! The reason I  am in Los Angeles is to drop Ryan off at the University of Southern California for school. Bittersweet. The first pool was the Mc Donald’s Olympic… Continue reading #34 & #35 Sweet…Bittersweet

I bounded out of bed early without the alarm going off as today was the day…to swim Dionis, at our friends the G’s house on Nantucket. The G’s are a special family that we have become friendly with because of our girls Courtney and Lucy.  Apparently, Lucy’s dad,Grant says that all bald people look like… Continue reading #33-Live and Let Dionis