I never take music with me when backpacking. However we often listen to music at our camp when camping with our tent trailer. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is excellent accompaniment when eating breakfast under our canopy.
Recently I put together some of my favorites in a “nature” playlist in iTunes. Made for a very nice flight to Philadelphia.
Some of my favorite “nature” themed music includes:
The past three weeks have been a cold gray haze. That is, I have been living in a monochrome world. Everything has been a shade of black, white or gray. And it is has been cold. It started 3 weeks ago in Colorado.
Last week I was in Illinois. It started with an early morning flight from California. Early morning means driving to the airport in the dark. As I boarded the silver gray plane, that set the color-tone for the next three days.
Descending from 30,000 feet towards O’Hare International Airport, the sky below was a gray blanket. Transitioning from a sunlight blue sky above; we dropped into a gray world. A world I would live in for the next three days.
Seems nearly impossible that last week I was driving to a destination in another state in a snow storm and today, at home, I could hike in 70 degree temperatures with a blue sky…
Let’s face it, most men don’t know how to buy or fit their trousers.
Properly fitted trousers will allow you to sit, stand, and walk without the material falling down, shifting, or becoming uncomfortable.
When purchasing ready-made off the rack trousers in a store, there are two measurements, the waist and the inseam.
It seems that many men don’t know where their waist is, or how to measure it.
Does your spouse or significant other not want to go camping (or backpacking) often enough? Maybe you need to add some romance to your outdoor activities.
Sorry, no pictures in this post.
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) last week announced they are reconsidering the ban on gay members, and may possibly discuss it during BSA’s biannual board meeting to be held in the beginning of February.
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
Bring me men to match my prairies,
Men to match my inland seas,
Men whose thoughts shall pave a highway
Up to ampler destinies,
Pioneers to cleanse thought’s marshlands,
And to cleanse old error’s fen;
Bring me men to match my mountains –
Bring me men!
Is this a contradiction? Is this an oxymoron? Read further for my thoughts.
This site is supposed to be about hiking and camping, but it is my site so I can post anything I want 🙂
Right now I am in Tustin, California for a couple days. Like I do on most business trips, I went for a little hike late Thursday afternoon; actually almost evening. I had to use the Photon II micro-light on my key chain for part of the route. Tustin is in Orange County, a heavily populated area. On my way to the client’s location this morning, I noticed a hilly area without any homes. When my work was finished, I drove to this area, parked on a residential street where I saw a trail at the end of a cul-de-sac, and went for a hike. As it turns out, the area is a regional park with about 350 acres of open space and lots of trails.