Greetings from Mendocino

Greetings from Mendocino, Calif., where we've dodged (somewhat) the northern California fires. It's cold, windy and gray, a perfect Maine day in the town that stood in for Downeast in the Murder She Wrote TV series.

We spent one night in Olema and last night at Henly State Park. Rental VW camper van makes us feel right at home.

Not sure where we are headed next or when I'll have Internet again.

Nothing much to report (my family is eager to leave this ice cream shoppe ;-) but a reader sent this along:

The Sporting News Preseason Rankings

1. Harvard

2. Yale

3. Brown

4. Penn

5. Dartmouth

6. Cornell

7. Princeton

8. Columbia

Hey, it's progress.