I'm a registered nurse and I work in a local hospital. I'm married with childern, I pay my taxes, I go to PTA meetings, I coach boys soccer, I volunteer at my sons school, look after my extended family and lots of other things that paint me a "citizen". But its all just veneer, a disguise if you will, to conceal the surf riding, mountain climbing dirtbag that I really am. I come from a family with long tradition of making full use of "local pleasures"; its surf, its mountains, its lakes and its streams. Some call the type "outdoorsmen", I call myself a soulrocksurfer.
The California Dirtblog is a colection of musings, trip reports, reviews and opinions related to my adventures and explorations across this great land.
Ever been driving down the highway and notice a lonely, crumbling road heading off out of sight over the horizion and you say to your self, "I wonder where that goes?". Well, I'm one of theose guys whose just gotta know whats down that road.
Most folks just drive on by without a second thought, Not me, I've got to see whats there. If I drive by, the possibility that I might miss out on something cool just eats at me until I relent and turn around and check it out. So, over any terrain, I go fourth to explore the unknown and embrace its secrets, leaving no trace of my passing.
The places these roads take me are ruff and rugged and far from the beaten path. Not many can hang with me and sometimes have to go it alone. Fortunately this is noy usually the case, Usually I've got my trusty side-kick, navigator and firestarter Carlo with me. 
Carlo is my teenage son and he's dope. He and I will travel the extra mil for the obscure obscura. We've spent years sleeping on the ground eating TopRaman, tuna and chocolate on busted up picnic tables, refining and defining our dirtbag style. Carlo is the best boy and I love him with all my heart.
Ocassionally, we are accomanied by one or more of the Sespegorillaz. The Gorillaz are a small climbing club we started, and we run wild all over the Los Padres, the Sierra, the high Desert and any where the surf is pumping.
The name Sespegorillaz is a play on the idea that there are no apes in North America. We are Central Californian Rock Gorillaz, locally known as Sespegorillaz. Yeah, Iknow its corny but that is how we roll.
And then there is my climbing partner, Dave Stillman aka C.R.A.S.H., aka Mr. Crash Fistfight, aka Sir Sespe Longstride. Check out his blog http://davidstillman.blogspot.com/
If ever a man needed a friend who can hang with the toils and troubles of climbing mountains that man is me and Stillman is the friend, my best friend. He and I have romped all over the Sespe and Eastern Sierra, and we're always up for more misery. We learn alot form each other 'cause we're smart enough to listen to each other and as a result, I trust him with my life.Like me, Stillman is married with children and he's a nurse too, in fact we work together performing emergency heart surgeries. But dont be fooled, Stillman is a crazy mofo, how do you think he got his crazy nic-names?
Welcome to the California Dirtblog.
