Journal Entries
I try to do or make interesting things on a regular basis. Here are some words and photos about my exploits.
Start location: Cajamarca, Peru End location: Cajamarca, Peru Miles today: Around town Miles total: Min altitude: 9000 ft Max altitude: Min temp: Max temp: Today has been incredible, and it’s only noon. I can’t ...
Start location: Lima, Peru End location: Cajamarca, Peru Miles today: Miles total: Min altitude: 113 ft / 34 m Max altitude: 9022 ft / 2750 m Min temp: Max temp: Had a hard time ...
Start location: Los Angeles, CA, USA End location: Lima, Peru Miles today: (flight) Miles total: Min altitude: 126 ft / 38 m Max altitude: 128 ft / 34 m (not counting the flight) Min ...
Start location: Columbus, Ohio End location: Los Angeles, California Miles today: (flights?) Miles total: Min altitude: 126 ft / 38 m (LAX) Max altitude: 815 ft / 248 m (CMH) Min temp: 50-ish (Milwaukee) ...
I’ve glued four matches together and already had a few revelations. One, it’s not as easy as it sounds, and two, I should have considered how I planned to hold them in place while they ...
Dad had his training session today, so I had the day to explore the area. I’d checked the National Park Service website and discovered there is a park just 45 minutes away in Hot Springs, ...
Lindalee and I stopped at one of my favorite National Parks, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in central southern Colorado. ...
Our first stop this morning was Mesa Verde National Park, which I figured might consume an hour or so. Five hours later we coasted down the mesa towards the exit, a whole eight miles further ...
Today was one of those once-in-a-lifetime days where you see something truly amazing, and between the sheer willpower to grasp it and the energy to pick yourself up out of the sand after kneeling under ...
Lindalee is having a meltdown in the middle of nowhere, she’s freaking out, she has the car keys, I’ve got no water or food. Help? Start: Grand Canyon, Arizona, end: Page, Arizona ...
Also, these are going to get posted out of order, so bear with me. It may be several days between internet connections, and even more days between times that I have enough energy to write. ...
What a day of extremes. We got up and out of the tent around 05:30 to drive over and catch the sunrise at Badwater, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere at -282 feet below ...