Archive for July, 2008
Today we start in on backpacking, which naturally means this will be my last post for a week. We drive up into the mountains from Pueblo this morning towards Buena Vista. We’ll camp at the trail head tonight and then start hiking Monday morning. I’ve gotten a lot of questions over the past few weeks [ READ MORE ]
Today was Kansas. All of it, in all of it’s hot, flat, windy, dusty glory. We hooked up with my parents, brother, and sister this morning in Olathe, KS – stocked up on required caffeinated beverages and took off down the road. We stayed on the Interstate for all of about 40 miles, and then [ READ MORE ]
Today, after staying up until 3:00 AM for the most epic night of bag-packing ever, we left Nashville for the American West. Destination: Colorado. Mission: Backpacking the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness Area. We’re taking 3 days to get out to our starting point, which will be a trailhead near Cottonwood Pass west of Buena Vista, CO. [ READ MORE ]
We have a cat. His name is Linus. He’s two years old now. Recently he started the bad habit of making incredible amounts of noise beginning every morning at 4:30 AM in the form of meowing, scratching, pawing, and general cat-play. It’s incredibly annoying, to the point that Steph and I are losing significant amounts [ READ MORE ]
It’s 4:53 PM. Long day at the office. My esteemed colleague Jon, tired from a long day’s work returns to his office craving a fresh can of… pears. Actually, they’re not fresh. The can of pears has been sitting in his desk drawer for months, maybe years. He finally brought a can opener [ READ MORE ]
Less than a month from now we leave for Colorado for our summer backpacking trip with my family. I am truly excited for this because it has been far too long since I’ve been packing in the Rockies. This will be Steph’s first time backpacking, so that’s going to be an adventure in and of [ READ MORE ]
So it’s been pointed out to me several times now that I haven’t blogged recently. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. In truth I’ve been taking a bit of an intentional “sabbatical” from writing because, well, because I wanted to. And it’s been nice. I’ve enjoyed stepping away from feeling the pressure [ READ MORE ]