The books contain my family history and travel journals.
Most of my journals are published as photo essays,
slide shows, and narrated videos.
These stories are in book format or magazine articles.
As told in "The House on Lyons Street," the Evans story began in 1770. The illustrated book also tells of the seventy-five years of change we witnessed. Table of Contents Here is a downloadable copy. Contact me for the password to open.
This 105-page photo book told the story of our 2024 Tauck tour of Japan. Our 16-day excursion included bus rides around Kyoto, Nara, and Tokyo and riverboat from Osaka to Nagasaki with a side stop in Busan Korea.
In 2022, eight 70+ yo bicyclists pedaled from Hendersonville TN to Savannal SC. This 58-page book told the story with pictures of our eight-day, inn-to-inn experience with planning, maps, and highlights.
In 1999 four of us explored Alaska from Fairbanks to Homer in the end of the Kenai Peninsula. We spend three days exploring Fairbanks in car and boat. We then caught train to Anchorage after spending three days in Denali. For a week, we rented an RV while we roamed on glaciers, rode on sled dogs, and paddled on kayaks.
Crazy Guy of a Bike is a free, independent website for hosting bicycle touring journals, forums and resources. The content was contributed by people from all over the world. It went live in February 2000 as a simple online journal and remains the only type of its kind on the website with hundreds of bicycle touring journals and articles.
Indian Lake Peninsula
Living Magazine.
Since 2014, Tom wrote a monthly
bicycle column.
Most of his sixty articles
can be found HERE
Always something does not fit on the other pages.
Nearly every topic is available on the Internet with FREE quality educational material. Google YOUTUBE, WIKI,
KHAN, etc. Our weekly NERD NITE has studied many of these 90 lecture sessions
The Great Courses provide 24/36 lecture series on nearly a 1000 topics. Always wait for a sale when course prices drop to around $35 for online viewing or downloading. The Great Courses PLUS allows unlimited sampling of all courses.
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Early MOOCs often emphasized open licensing of content, structure and learning goals, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources.
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Destinos, a video instructional series in Spanish for adult, college and high school classrooms teaches speaking, listening, and comprehension skills in Spanish using 52 half-hour programs coordinated with CD's, video, audio scripts, and books. It immerses students in everyday situations with native speakers. It introduces the cultures, accents, and dialects of Mexico, Spain, Argentina, and Puerto Rico.
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