It’s a little less than three months till the date I’ve set when I’ll set out on my hike. Lots of other people preparing for this hike are spending the time researching gear, dehydrating food for the Trail, and getting … Continue reading
I should present a little infodump on the Appalachian Trail, like why it’s there, and why people hike it. The Appalachian Trail, or AT, is a footpath that runs parallel to the much of the Eastern Seaboard. It is, at … Continue reading
At this point, I’m still undecided what exactly I’ll be doing about journaling my Appalachian Trail hike. There’s a site that hosts trail journals called, appropriately enough, Trail Journals, and there’s also my blog, Foolish Questions. I could post on … Continue reading
So, yeah, soon, if all goes to plan, I’ll be setting off to hike the Appalachian Trail. I’ll be starting in mid-March, the day after St. Patrick’s Day, as a matter of fact. I don’t know if that is an … Continue reading
We’re up here in the Great Northwest, for a period of indeterminate length, on business. The business thing is Mary’s reason for being here, I’m just along to sample the bounty of the Seattle area, which is rich and diverse. … Continue reading
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The first two nights we spent at the IceHotel, we slept in a regular, warmly heated, queen bed equipped Scandinavian hotel room. The whole sleeping in a room made of ice is only for one night, and indeed they don’t … Continue reading
After a few days in Stockholm it was time for our real adventure, a flight up above the Arctic Circle and three days basking in the frigid gloominess that is Lapland. To start our Laplandish quest we were scheduled to … Continue reading
The secret to a good marriage, besides diamonds*, is the ability for the participants to trade favors, goods or services, or as the Romans put it, doing that quid pro quo thang. One can exchange, for instance, scrubbing down the … Continue reading
Mad props to anyone who figured out the title came from Scrooged, one of my all time favorite holiday movies. Right up there with A Christmas Story, or as we like to refer to it, The Kid, You’ll Shoot Your … Continue reading
We have returned full circle, back to Los Angeles and America and apple pie, as well as excellent fish tacos. Hmmm, fish tacos…. Before bestriding the globe, hurtling through the stratosphere back to the City of Angels, we stopped off … Continue reading
