The girl-child says she wants to hike the Grand Canyon … by which, she means more than walking twenty feet out onto the overlook and saying, “Yep, that’s a big hole, let’s head for Vegas.” This trip is going to…
Proving that there is simply nothing I’m not willing to sell in trying to find an actual, official corporate sponsor for this trip, I will be making the entire trip – 24 days, 25 states, 8000 miles, 129 hours of…
As with my kayak trips, we’ll be tracking hikes and walking with the Garmin eTrex 20. The Garmin Basecamp software will handle editing the GPS track to remove the crap that shows up because I forget to turn it off…
Amazon could almost be an official sponsor. As an Amazon Affiliate, Amazon gives us a percentage of anything purchased through links from this site. We’re purchasing most of the new items for this trip from Amazon and are using CamelCamelCamel.com…
Obviously the car that started this insanity is the most important piece of equipment. Toyota should definitely get on-board with sponsoring this trip. MapQuest is currently estimating the fuel costs at around $800. That’s more than the original $600…
Being an inveterate capitalist, I’ve decided to open the Jackson 2012 Graduation Road Trip up to corporate sponsors. Sadly, I don’t have any actual connections to get the sponsorships up front, so this’ll be on spec. Over the course of…
In April I bought a Prius. This, in and of itself, likely isn’t cause to question my mental health, but what it’s led to this summer may indicate that I have, indeed, gone batcrap-crazy. See, for several years, I’ve been…
An afternoon paddle on the Wekiva today, but no pictures or GPS due to battery issues. Those should be resolved before my next paddle, though. I started at Wekiva Springs State Park and turned onto Rock Springs Run to paddle…
With a new car that gets much better mileage than my V8 Mountainer (even if a 16’ boat on 14’ Prius does look a bit silly), I can now worry more about where I want to paddle than how much…
I made it through about half of today’s clinic before leaving the ice with an equipment problem. First we started off skating the face-off dots forward – two reps of that, then another two reps carrying a puck. With the…