Category: Travel
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Update on the plan
For once I’m taking a few drafts before publishing a blog post. I wrote this in kind of a fury last night and realized it is simultaneously too long and lacking context. Today, I am writing from the edge of Denali National Park, at the raft guide camp I’ve been at for a few days.…
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Initial thoughts on Denali
A song that has been resonating in my head this whole trip, and solidly ignored, has been 3 x 5 by John Mayer. It says, today I finally overcame, trying to put the world inside a picture frame; maybe I will tell you all about it in my own way when I’m in the mood…
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Mystery solved!
My camper has been smelling really nice the past few days, but it’s gotten overwhelming. And I just figured out why. As I was driving the Klondike Highway the other day, I saw this empty box on the road. I picked it up, both to remove litter and because, well, it’s kind of a good…
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Travel update, September 1 car 10,000 miles on the road
Last night someone told me that they were grateful for the conversation, one of the most interesting people they’d met, but also said that at first I seemed a little crazy until after I had spoken for five or six minutes. I guess that’s just my reality, and really, I’m theme with this idea I’ve…
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50 state photos?
I wrote a post purporting to go through photographic proof of my 50 state journey. It was terrible I guess, so I’m not that upset that when I tried to post it here, it didn’t work at all. I’m going to have to put it in Word or something. Maybe I can export it from…
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I’m finally on the road, what next?
I keep hearing isolated phrases from music that don’t really make any sense in context, just feel like phrases that makes sense to my life right now. From Hamilton… We’re finally on the road, we’ve had quite a run… We get the job done… of course that doesn’t actually make any literal sense in context,…
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Route planning: the distance and time expectation
Route plan so far, more stops to be added, this just gives me a baseline. The trip will be a minimum of 12k miles and 200 hours of driving. 2/3 of the driving is on the way there, as this route assumed just heading straight home from Denali. Adding a stop at Kenai would add…
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Getting ready to go north
It’s been a while since I took a proper trip. And yet, I have not been staying still. I started traveling essentially as soon as I had control over it. In childhood, my parents tended to center travel around a fixed location, a weekend house they built on the opposite side of the city…
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In memory of Megan Thompson
Today is the anniversary of our friend Megan Thompson’s untimely death on the Oconaluftee River in the Smokies last winter. I almost forgot the day but a news story reminded me – the one year anniversary of war beginning in Ukraine, which happened actually at around the same time. In fact my last message to…
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Update at the apex of my 2020 cross-country road trip
2020 08 20 I feel kind of bad that I haven’t been blogging along the way on this trip. I’ve been updating Facebook and sometimes Twitter and Instagram, so see my personal social feeds for the blow-by-blow. I’ve been on the road for a little over three weeks now, on a trip that will eventually…
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Update: Who’s Ready and other happenings
Every time I come to update this site I’m disappointed in myself for how far behind I’ve fallen. So this post might be a bit of a belated catch-up. Who’s Ready My major new project for 2019 is a new social networking app called Who’s Ready. I’ve got a whole web site set up about…
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First RV trip, lessons and experiences
I realize I’ve fallen behind and this post really merits at least three posts on different topics. So I guess I’ll just dump a lot of info into this one post, with the dates when I should’ve written them. 2/11/18 – After this Yosemite experience, it’s clear to me that I need to make some…
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Birthday in Yosemite
What a long strange trip it’s been! Some of you may have heard of GoRuck. They make backpacks, and to sell more backpacks they invented the sport of “rucking” and started hosting “GoRuck challenge” events in various cities. So they’re known among the adventure/obstacle racing circles and have been on my radar for years. Their…
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Business travel essentials, part one: Packing
The frequent flyer’s handbook part one: The business trip packing list. One part of my work that I really enjoy is traveling to cover cases all over the country. This is usually a service I perform as a contractor for other attorneys when their clients move to a different area, but I sometimes encounter the…
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My Last Swim
It’s been one week since my last swim. One of my favorite podcasts is In Between Swims. If you read this blog, you should subscribe to that podcast. The host, Jeff McIntyre, interviews boaters and asks them to tell about their last swim. If he ever asks me, this is the story I want…
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LWC prototype trip, day 2
Okay, so it looks like I’m going to need an alarm clock after all. The car sleeping setup is a success in that it’s super comfy, but a fail in that it made it a little too easy to sleep in. Today hasn’t exemplified productivity; finding good work environments remains a work in progress. Really,…
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Life without Compromise: Day 1
20151116 Today has been Day 1 of my “life without compromise prototype trip.” Let me go back a step. I’ve been reshaping my life in accordance with a principle called “Life Without Compromise,” which I’ve been learning from Eric Jackson. I could go on about LWC for a while, but suffice for now to say…