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  1. 8/15 The kindness of strangers on the road
    Aug 17, 2026 · original
    Am reading in “ American Ramble ” how kind strangers in small towns often bend over backwards to help another stranger like the author (Neil King) as he walks from D.C. to New York on foot. One story tells of being in the small town of Cranbury near Jersey, telling locals of his plan to hike through what he wasn’t aware was swampland. A local schoolteacher and his 80 year old mom rustled up their kayak for him to use instead, offering to meet him on the other side with his gear. Such kindness warms me heart and reminds me of similar acts on my travels camping across the continent. # Like the time a Mexican family in San Felipe (on Sea of Cortez) insisted I join them for a beautiful, gaily lit dinner on Christmas day because they didn’t want me to be alone. Another in New Horton, New Brunswick (Canada) locals were hanging about in their front yard enjoying wine and cheese. I waved driving
  2. Oops Tempus Fugit!
    Aug 3, 2026 · original
    My, how time flies! It’s been a year since writing about breaking me ankle . Tip of the ole hat across the pond to Simone for nudging me into an update. Surgery went well with Doc carving in a titanium plate and nine screws. May have been a bit of overkill but he honored my wishes to be able to do “ everything I did before” with a bionic ankle. The hardest part of it all was the sitting around while healing. For a wanderer that was a veryyy long slog. Several months later it was made more tolerable when I got crutches and Dad would take me to local parks for roof-less respite (thank you Dad for helping enormously during my downtime!). Oh yeh — that very expensive helicopter ride? I was able to negotiate them down to a few thousand bucks from their massively insane $80k+ bill. Phew. Still, shows how crazy the medical system can be in the States. In late May I did a test run by hitting the
  3. View from Lake Seminole at River Junction campground near Chattahoochee, Florida
    Jun 2, 2026 · original
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  4. Oops I slipped…
    Jul 26, 2025 · original
    My travels have come to a temporary end. I was hiking the Narrows trail along the Rockcastle river in Kentucky’s Daniel Boone National Forest, slipped off the edge of the trail and broke me ankle. There was no cell phone service so I ended up butt-crawling a ways on the trail (crutches I hacked together made things worse with weak wood out there) until I finally raised a faint signal. Texted 911 (so thankful they have this service for the deaf), helped their volunteer rescue squad locate me by boat on the river below and their wonderful firemen hauled me down the mountain with good cheer. It was getting dark and my phone died the moment I saw them so I was very fortunate. Since I was in middle of nowhere and local hospitals didn’t do ortho they had to airlift me to Lexington at the University of Kentucky’s hospital. I insisted I drive but they talked me out of it thankfully (still wincin
  5. 🗺 Battle Run campground
    Jun 29, 2025 · original
    Altitude 508.58 ft Summersville, WV 84°F (feels 88°F) Partly Cloudy (wind 2.2 mph) Back to civilization for hot showers and laundry. Managed to snag a first-come first-served spacious lakefront spot amidst big rigs all over. Nice to have ducks for company on Summersville lake which feeds the famous Gurley river. (Reply or view comments)
  6. 🗺 North Creek campground in Jefferson Ntl Forest
    Jun 21, 2025 · original
    Altitude 347.15 ft Buchanan, VA 86°F (feels 91°F) Sunny (wind 2.5 mph) View from my backyard in a hammock. Very peaceful and refreshing. There’s a little waterfall on the right if you look closely. Am in base of Blue Ridge mountains and close to Appalachian trail which I walked a bit of for kicks. (Reply or view comments)
  7. 🗺 Goose Point campground
    Jun 17, 2025 · original
    Altitude 298.116 ft Bassett, VA 79°F (feels 80°F) Cloudy (wind 3.9 mph) …on Philpott lake in Virginia near Blue Ridge mountains. Another packed Corps of Engineers campground; will be nice to hit a quiet national forest up next. (Reply or view comments)
  8. 🗺 Bandit’s Roost campground on Kerr Scott reservoir
    Jun 15, 2025 · original
    Altitude 316.546 ft Wilkesboro, NC 77°F (feels 79°F) Mostly Cloudy (wind 5.1 mph) A nice respite for hot showers and electricity to charge everything up including me travel sore body. Summer rains make it nice and cool up here. (Reply or view comments)
  9. 🗺 Woods Ferry campground
    Jun 11, 2025 · original
    Altitude 135.204 ft , SC 86°F (feels 87°F) Cloudy (wind 1.9 mph) …in Sumter National Forest. New journey on way to Nova Scotia, Canada or bust! (Reply or view comments)
  10. What’s going on these days?
    Mar 26, 2025 · original
    You may have noticed I haven’t been traveling as much these past few months. While crossing the desert in Arizona last year, a thought popped into my mind — my dad is getting on in his years as he reaches his mid-80s and I ought to be around him more while he’s still here. Same for mom and the inescapable fading of her memory. I have the rest of my life to wander all I want and I’ll still take side trips like I did to the Carolinas recently. The key is not to have regrets later — that I could have been around more. # A consequence of being in one place more is I’ve been diving hard and fast into being on the computer all the time to get things done and shore up my businesses & side projects. Big mistake. Despite being in as good physical shape as I’ve been in years and feeling great, my body crashed hard and the fatigue came roaring back. A lesson I’ll take to heart and heed because the
  11. Sunset over Cellon creek at San Felasco Preserve in Gainesville, Florida
    Feb 9, 2025 · original
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  12. 💬 Turtle Shell
    Feb 9, 2025 · original
    What a beautiful website, words ’ n all - Turtle Shell (Reply or view comments)
  13. Exhaling together
    Nov 14, 2024 · original
    There is this tree overhanging just below where I sit. The sun brightens its leaves so that they glow. I reach over and gently caress a leaf, slowly running fingers across it. I feel warmth from above and let out an exhale of feeling good. The wind kicks in with exhale and Beloved says “ You see? We’re all connected.” (Reply or view comments)
  14. Earth with and without us, chasing fatigue away, living room outdoors
    Nov 12, 2024 · original
    Greenery all around. A yellow butterfly darts in and around tall grasses. A bird swoops through and over. Dragonflies zip, hover, and zip. Bees — they dance from flower to flower. I’m overwhelmed at witnessing such abundance in this tiny slice of earth. This… this is reality, naturally. The way it was long before we were here. And if Earth wills it, it’ll be here long after. Are we so arrogant to think Earth needs us? No. In fact, through its machinations and the errors of our ways, it is slowly eradicating our presence. In its own good time, we will no longer exist (or have spaced on) and our beautiful Earth will have unfurled her beauty ten-fold without us in the way. It will be truly glorious times and none of us to witness it. Que sera, sera. # Between intense quick trail riding on the bike and working on various things to outfit my car for camping/overlanding (and rescuing a fallen
  15. Not used to feeling good, wood crafting?, running dreams redux
    Nov 7, 2024 · original
    I’ve been having more moments of feeling good and am not used to it. These past few years it was an anomaly when I felt good, so I’m often surprised when I tell myself - “ I feel good!” When I do - I still have a bit of PTSD from it because when I did feel I had those rare moments of feeling good, the bottom would drop out and I’d feel weak-ass more than usual. I feel like all this regular exercising is making a difference - things are not perfect and I still get moments of fatigue but they’re fewer these days, fingers crossed. My clothes are fitting looser, and muscles are appearing in places I hadn’t seen in a long time, so I’d say we are making good progress so far. Yay! # I still have this odd yearning to start working and creating with wood - as in build things - useful and also artistic. And paint ’ em with art - use the wood as a canvas. For whatever reason, this excites me so it
  16. Lemmings on the road, falling back into shape, the grandest vision
    Nov 4, 2024 · original
    I see rows and rows of cars lined up stuck in normal everyday traffic. I see people inside, some with glum expressions on their faces. And all I can think is we’re a bunch of lemmings. Like the frog in the soon-to-be boiling water things just pile up — unending growth with no proper planning, giving preference to cars over people, bikes, scooters, trains, etc. so roads get wider (and yet more packed), concrete sucking up more and more nature and so on and on. At what price for all this sameness and conformity and race for wealth and things to pile up and later discard? When will there be enough rebels to stand up and say enough of this — let’s figure out a better way for all of us… and do it. All the while saving the world. # After an aggressive bike fly-through on the trails, there’s nuttin’ like winding down to a cup of hot coffee on a camp stove near the woods with a sunset bearing do
  17. Poor man’s coffee station, living by the sun
    Nov 3, 2024 · original
    Hacked together a poor man’s coffee station for the back of the SUV for those long days or mornings I want to hang out in the woods or a park. Free scrap wood from Lowe’s made it possible, yay for the free things in life! This setup helps take away the sting of not camping and there’s nuttin’ like making coffee in the wild. (And it saves me quite a bit of $ from buying so much coffee at cafes.) Also figured a way to mount my 5 lb propane tank on the roof of the xTerra, both to make more room for inside but also for safety reasons. I didn’t realize propane tanks vent gas when too hot (temp-wise) as a safety feature. Wouldn’t be good to be in car when it vents off on a hot day. The car looks kinda cool w/ the tank and other stuff mounted up there now, lol. Feels like I’m an overlander. # The time has fallen backwards, unfortunately—means dark falls around before 6pm, yuk. Going to try and
  18. A meditation secret, dreams of business, Dad ’n football
    Nov 2, 2024 · original
    I’m finding one “ secret” to meditating is to aim for at least 20-30 minutes of it minimum. 30 seems to be the sweet spot where the magic happens (ever so subtly though). If I haven’t stuck to a regular routine of it, it’s harder to get back and stay in it — it helps if I tell myself I’m going to stay at it for 30 mins no matter what — just sit through the noise and thoughts and whatever else. Just follow my breathing, etc. I can feel it start to sink in again. Persistence is key and mind + body will thank you for it. # That dream earlier… the “ American Idol” one, I’m wondering if it applies to my last tango w/ B & F? The last meeting didn’t work out (buying out GC ) and they were the two people in the dream? In essence we would have been partners if I was retained as consultant (and it sounded like F wanted me to continue to play a role @ GC ). So them two not “ showing up” ala backing
  19. Dreams of the deaf
    Nov 1, 2024 · original
    Had a very interesting dream last night because the feeling was very deep, meaning it’s a dream of significance usually. I was part of a group of people divided into individual teams. We put together to create some sort of presentation art multimedia-wise. The details are vague but I was advanced out of the team into a smaller trio—three of us. We were now on a much bigger production venue/facility, where we were to make a speech, play, present whatever we wanted to a huge audience. The setting reminds me of American Idol. Just before we were scheduled to go on stage, my two partners still hadn’t shown up. And it was time to go—the stage manager came to tell us to get to the stage. Seeing it was only me, one of the assistant stage managers said I was deaf and wouldn’t be able to do anything. That pissed me off—so much so I punched him in the face, clown-style. I then resolved—you know wh
  20. View from this morning’s desk
    Oct 29, 2024 · original
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