Ed's Hobbies

Currently active hobbies and loves

Family	Karen & Becky
Exercise	I'm working on exercising 45 minutes to an hour, seven days a week, 365.25 days a year.  To keep my interest up and avoid overuse injuries, I'm rotating among:  speed walking, swimming, Tae Bo, tread-mill up-hill walking, and I hope to get back to racquetball and bicycling.
Photography	Film and digital photography Photo printing (digital via color printer) Getting back into doing it for fun after doing-it-for-work-burnout.
Flying and airplane building	Building a Challenger II ultralight trainer.  The Challenger II is a two-place tandem (front/back seating) fixed-wing, aerodynamic control (like a regular plane) ultralight.  It'll be eligible as a "Light Sport Aircraft" when that category of plane is created in 2004.  For details, see my Challenger page. Information about Challenger II http://edburkhead.com/Challenger/challenger_ii_page.htm http://www.quadcitychallenger.com/  factory http://www.challenger.ca/  Canadian Dealer - nice site After 23 years, I sold my Ercoupe to a good Coupe mechanic who sold it then painted it and put in new upholstery, new instrument panel - a pretty complete restoration.  Information about Ercoupes: http://www.ercoupe.org http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm National Ercoupe forums (which I manage) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ercoupe-tech/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ercoupe-flyin/
Reading	Mostly, but not all, Speculative Fiction (Sci-Fi)   I prefer the "hard" SF based on plausible-science and social ideas (though I've enjoyed a few good fantasies, too).
Studying and playing with Computers	Making web pages (HTML and web page tools) http://www.ercoupe.org  (original contributor of content and layout) http://edburkhead.com/ Digital imaging Digital photography with Olympus D-490Z and Nikon D-50 Digital photographic printing with Epson printer Image scanning Information access
Camping	Family camping in our pop-up camper

Previous hobbies with which I've
had fun over the last 45 years

flying photography reading sailing canoeing driving swimming scuba computers bicycling Tae-Bo

writing      novel/story      journalistic army reserves computers skiing X/C skiing downhill international relations politics travel taking night classes Judo

acting (plays) racquetball hiking camping winter camping astronomy amateur radio psychology first aid guitar wrestling running

mountain climbing optics music editing/publishing aerobics teaching sales languages web development singing tree climbing speed-walking