Today was supposed to be a scorcher. 97 degrees and 30 to 40 mile per hour winds later in the day. Our best bet then was to not be hiking later in the day. What that really meant was that the early m...
We started the day early due to an iffy forecast of rain. It rained last night, and it was raining as we woke up. It stopped raining just we started hiking. It was just like the movie "Groundhog ...
It rained hard last night, even had some wind, but not enough to send out a mayday.We started early today. It was still dark. We thought wed take advantage of the stoppage of rain and get some miles ...
We started off the morning with light traffic on Hwy-92. The wind was already slower than yesterday, and got calmer around noon time.We passed by a few farms and barns. One of the barns had a Herbie ...
We started the day by walking out of the town of Valparaiso on the Oak Creek Trail. We walked past an old triple-silo grain elevator. The silos were made out of brick/block. It was neat to see the ol...
We had great weather all day today. It was warm without being hot, with just a slight breeze. If we could just have every day be like this, wed be smiling from here to California.We walked out of the...
Well, we finally got some sleep. We had been staying up way too late for too many nights in a row. This morning we made up for it by sleeping-in past doubles. Doubles is double digits, as in 10 ocloc...
The day started off cool with a slight breeze. It was a pleasant morning walk. The MoPac rail-trail was lined with quite a few trees, so it felt like a morning walk in the woods. We crossed Weeping W...
We started our day at Cubbys sisters house. We had breakfast and then said our goodbyes. A bit of a late start again. We have got to get more sleep.We headed south to the town of Springfield, NE on a...
The sun came up and our good intentions of getting up with it were dashed immediately. We thought that wed get an early start to to beat some heat, but sleep won out.After a little extra sleep, we st...
We got up early, but that didnt translate into an early start on the trail. We stayed at our friend Beths house, and this morning she took us out for a big breakfast.Breakfast was at Harolds Cafe. We...
We started the day extra early to avoid the heat during the morning roadwalk. We knew that this morning would be in full sun on the road, but after that we would have shade on a rail-trail.We were wa...
"After pausing for station idenification, we now return to our regularly scheduled programming."After our 26.2 mile marathon detour, we are back on the trail.We started the morning at the Cas...
Since today is Mothers Day........George Washington, (1732 - 1799) - -"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the mo...
An analogy for Life:Dr. Seuss, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (1957)“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? Christmas(Li...
Earl Shaffer (first person to hike the Appalachian Trail in both directions,1965) - -"You may take wide spacious highways To offices, factories, and mills, But Ill take the trails and the byways ...
Edmund S. Morgan author of "Columbus Confusion About the New World"(Smithsonian magazine, October 2009) - -"Plato had emphasized again and again that freedom was to be reached by restrain...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - -"Flow", a state in which the individual has "intense emotional involvement" in a rewarding, goal-directed activity. Flow "lifts the course of life to a ...
Henry David Thoreau - -"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
Freya Starks (adventurer & explorer 1893 - 1993) - -“Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has...
Today was THE day. The day of truth or the day of reckoning. That was still to be determined as we woke up early. Too early.This was Marathon Day. Yep, M-A-R-A-T-H-O-N. As in 26.2 miles. 26.2 miles o...
Excerpt from National Geographic Adventure Magazine 2006Sabastian Junger: Welcome Stranger"An old friend of mine once observed that the arrival of a stranger in a rough town often presents locals...
Please stand by as we pause for station identification.HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Bostons Dad, Crampy!
Well, as with with most forecasts of doom & gloom, it didnt live up to the hype. Yes, it did rain last night, but nothing compared to the night before mayhem.For some reason this morning, we woke up ...
As Bette Davis famously stated, "Fasten your seatbelts. Its going to be a bumpy night."Our day started really early, 1:30am to be exact.Since our tent is made of cuben fiber, which was origin...
Happy May Day! Normally May Day is celebrated by an unexpected surprise May-basket of goodies outside your door. No such luck for us today. We celebrated by finishing the 3rd month of this hike.We bo...
The time had come. Time to hit the trail, and trade in the house for the tent.We had breakfast of Lucky Charms and OJ. We then topped it off with the homemade apple & caramel muffins that Carsyn made...
ZEERO!! Yippee! Zero day today. It started off in the best possible way. We slept in.We then had a big pancake and sausage breakfast. That got the day going. Going where, we didnt know. We didnt plan...
We got to sleep in for an extra hour. Nice. Well, Cubby thought it was nice. Boston was wanting to get going. She was thinking that the sooner we start, the sooner wed finish.After breakfast, Addie d...
Although it would have been nice to sleep all day, breakfast casserole was in the oven. Time to get up. Hot breakfast is a good motivator.After egg & sausage casserole, Addie drove us back to the tow...
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