Yep. I broke the law. And the heavy hand of law enforcement reached out and slapped me.
I am a public nuisance. I parked by camper in my drive way. God grant me forgiveness.
Category Archives: General Talk
The Death of Renaissance Man
Sometime in the last generation Renaissance Man passed away. Also known as Polymath,
he lived for almost 2,400 years. The cause of death was apathy and specialization.
He was the child of Reason and Knowledge. His greatest achievement was ethical egoism.
His illegitimate children Specialized Man, Minimum Man, and Social Networker survive him.
Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and a long list of polymath relatives predeceased him.
His passing was not noticed and there will be no funeral. Everyone is too busy texting, tweeting, and face-booking.
A tête-à-tête with Nicole, the Redwoods, and the Ocean
Recently returned from a vacation in the Humboldt area to visit my daughter Nicole and son-in-law Will, who are expecting their first child in late June.
Great conversations and dinning with both of them.
And of course… some great hiking.
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Backpacking/Camping Decision Tree
It appears that my wife has a “Bucket List” and a To Do List.
I have neither.
Her To Do List includes fixing a leak in the roof, which is required before the interior remodel can be completed. The remodel started in 2000; the roof leak appeared a few years later.
So this week I put the roof issue on my own To Do List, which was completely empty – actually I had to create a list. However it was too windy outside this week.
Best Blog on the Web: Out Of Eden Walk
Hope this works. The hard drive in my laptop crashed and the restoration processs, if it works, looks to be at least a 10 hour ordeal.
Anyway, I don’t spend much time reading blogs, but I have been watching this one for nearly a year.
I’ll let the author explain it…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot our ancestors’ migration out of Africa and across the globe. His 21,000-mile odyssey began in Ethiopia and will end seven years later at the tip of South America.
National Geographic is funding Paul’s storytelling from the trail—dispatches of varied length posted here every few days or at longer intervals. There’s a brief delay between his filing of stories and their posting. Paul is reading your comments and responding to some, so please check back.