We departed Saturday afternoon with the aim to make it all the way into Moab, UT before 11pm where we would get a hotel room for the night. This didn’t work out so well with all hotels full when we arrived, and the 3 of us camping out in the...
Tim was playing with friends at school when one landed on his arm. Tim said he “heard a pop” so we were off for an X-ray. Yep, he has a “compression fracture”. The analogy from the doctor was that a compression break is much like crushing a styrofoam cup and...
Friday morning, Conor and I drove up Hwy 14 to hike up Mt McConnel up at 8000ft. It was not to be a particularly long hike at only 4.6 miles round trip, or hard hike with only 1400ft altitude gain, but as luck would have it we would still fail...
Conor and I ran up to Rocky Mtn Ntnl Park on Monday to get in our first hike of the year. Our last hike together was in the snow so it is fitting that we start this year with a snow-hike as well. Sadly, I left my snow-shoes in California...
A few months back I began ‘running’ 1 mile (using the elliptical machine) each day at the gym. Over a period of time I widdled my 1-mile times down to 6.5 minutes and then settled on 7-minute miles from there. During my drive out to California in Jan, I did...
After leaving Slab City I pointed the van North for the first time in 3 weeks. I have stayed very near the Mexico border for some time but now it was time for the wind to take me northward for a few days. I was planning to take Hwy-395 up...
I arrived in the Slab City area just before noon, after jumping my van over some odd part of the road that acted as a launching pad. I figured, in that split second, that the van was a goner when it touched ground again. Though everything flew around the back...
Holy cow, this body of water is huge! I don’t know what I was expecting, but not a real sea in the middle of the desert… you could not see the other side unless it was the mountains to the north. To all other sides, it appeared as if it...
