• Bikes & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee

    Bikes & Coffee & Coffee & Coffee

    It all started looking for coffee roasters in Geneva near the train station. I found a bunch of options including Greenwheel Coffee and while looking through their photos, I found this gem of a t-shirt: We never actually made it to a roaster in Geneva – instead we stopped during…

  • Comparison of 7 Cheap Kid-Friendly MP3 Players / Yoto Alternatives

    Comparison of 7 Cheap Kid-Friendly MP3 Players / Yoto Alternatives

    We love our Yoto! But for long trips I wanted a MP3 player backup as an alternate to load all of our content and not worry about bringing dozens of cards. And on our last big trip the Yoto mini had a SD fail, so a cheap MP3 player would…

  • Yoto Mini Teardown / SD Fail Card Replacement

    Yoto Mini Teardown / SD Fail Card Replacement

    In light of the Yoto Mini recall and a recent SD FAIL message, I decided to open ours up and replace the card myself. (I doubt Yoto will have replacement units anytime soon) It’s a fairly simple process, but unfortunately you do need to break 4 tabs on the screen…

  • 1UP vs QuikrStuff – And a few QuikrStuff hacks

    1UP vs QuikrStuff – And a few QuikrStuff hacks

    I purchased a 1UP 2″ 2x Super Duty rack in May 2022 to use on our Subaru Crosstrek to carry our Tern GSD ebike, road bikes, and kids bikes. It worked ok, but I never loved it. It was hard to adjust between the 4 bike sizes, awkward to install…

  • Tern GSD / HSD 3D Printed Model and Christmas Ornament

    Tern GSD / HSD 3D Printed Model and Christmas Ornament

    I love our Tern GSD. We just crossed 2000 miles ridden over the last 15 months and can’t really imagine life without it. Part of the joy is customizing it as we go – everything from racks and seats to locks and Woom-holding aero bars. Even a clubhouse-mounted bubble fan…

  • Adding USB-C to a Yoto Player

    Adding USB-C to a Yoto Player

    Edited 5/1/24: I would now purchase this part which streamlines some of the instructions below. We love our Yoto player, but it uses an easily broken and easily lost proprietary puck charger that’s $25 to replace. No thanks! The mini model uses USB-C and has the same 5V input as…

  • Nest Protect and Abobe Smoke Alarm Monitor Compatibility

    Nest Protect and Abobe Smoke Alarm Monitor Compatibility

    If you have Nest Protect smoke alarms and want to connect them to an alarm system for monitoring, you’ve likely found that there are no direct integrations available since Google took over the Nest logins sometime in 2020. Something something avoiding liability for burning a house down… That leaves a…

  • Full Moon Over the Golden Gate Bridge

    Full Moon Over the Golden Gate Bridge

  • Sourdough

    Sourdough

    Over the last few months I’ve baked a lot of sourdough. Over the last few weeks I’ve given away 20+ starters for others to bake with. My starter now has grandchildren! They grow up so fast. Sourdough FAQ Where is the starter from?  I took a workshop from Sour Flour…

  • A Rundown of Lightweight Urban Bicycles with Clean Lines

    A Rundown of Lightweight Urban Bicycles with Clean Lines

    I’m in the market for a new internal hub / belt drive commuter bike with clean lines and I stumbled across this Reddit post with a seemingly perfect title “I compared all the mission sutro-like bikes (road bike geometry, internal hub, clean lines, lightweight) I could find.” Problem was, the…