Traveling

After the conclusion of the recent weekend ice storm, a heavy and nearly impassable fog rolled over the city. Without question, fog has always been the enemy of donuts. However, rarely does fog compete with the purchase of tacos. Peppercorn the dog happens to dislike ice storms far greater than fog. Working in a...
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Maybe now would be a good time to type up a weblog entry. Early this morning, Peppercorn the dog decided to start barking before the alarm clock had time to spring into action. After feeding the dog a nutritious breakfast of salmon and sweet potatoes, a careful inspection of the backyard revealed the existence...
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The following prose represents a few Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) tour notes from Saturday August 1 through Monday August 3, 2009 trip. This year the third time shifted wedding anniversary vacation weekend involved traveling to RMNP. Without question or argument, every American should time the time to visit RMNP. The National Park Service...
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Who would have ever guessed that grapes could grow in the State of Colorado? Parts of Colorado are in fact suitable to growing grapes for wine. People grow grapes in various places throughout the United States. Necessity of investigation might warrant the study of vineyards outside the State of California. Maybe this news will...
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Eighteen hours of traveling across eastern Colorado and western Kansas really provides the serenity necessary to derive perspective. After hearing about the latest bestselling Mark Levin book the car ride seemed like a great time to check out the Mark Levin podcast. Listening to a wide variety of perspectives helps provide prospective. First, outside...
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Nels accepted a challenge in 2005 to visit every national park in the United States of America. Living in Boulder, Colorado at the time provided an excellent base camp centrally located between dozens of national parks, which started the national parks tour off on the right path. A degree of localization will benefit the...
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Nels was able to experience Sea World San Diego during the Borys wedding festival weekend. Traveling provides the opportunity for unique experiences outside the confines of traditional normative processes. Routines dominate daily life. Average citizens thrive within the rigid constructs of predictable environments. Sea World San Diego follows precise schedules and provides carefully documented...
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Can Nels spend an entire weekend without the internet? The simple answer to the question is yes. Nels was able to complete a weekend without internet. During the course of the Borys wedding weekend, Nels was able to sustain a complete moratorium on all internet usage. Completing this task required avoiding all potential devices...
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Today the Ford Explorer unexpectedly malfunctioned during the process of safely making a turn across incoming traffic onto a side road. Gradually the momentum glided the Ford Explorer across the road and into a parking lot just off the side road. With any luck, during the scheduled seventy-five thousand mile maintenance the dealership automotive...
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Today is probably a good day to get things done. A trip to a retail store will start the process of building two automotive safety kits that include first aid materials. Automotive safety kits are probably a reflection of good planning. Actually having to use a care safety kit would be unfortunate. After returning...
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Thanks in part to the recent cabin fever associated with waiting for Peppercorn the dog’s hind leg to heal planning a national park vacation has become a topic of conversation. After watching a few episodes about various national parks in HDTV (High Definition Television) on the Discovery Channel the cabin fever intensified. I recently...
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After moving all the stuff out of the apartment to the new house, it was time to travel to Kansas for the wedding. Traveling back to Kansas on an aircraft is a better alternative than spending the entire day driving on the highways. Over two hundred people attended the wedding in Wichita, Kansas. Without...
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Last night for dinner about a quarter of the Public Administration Class of 2005 at the University of Kansas had dinner in Dallas, Texas. During the course of normal dinner conversation Kate observed that more students from the Class of 2005 work in the State of Texas than any other state. Only one student...
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Today the drive from Boulder, Colorado, to Wichita, Kansas, was uneventful. Toward the end of the drive, a full moon graced the sky as the setting sun colored the skyline. In January, snow normally covers the western Kansas terrain, but during the drive today, the only highway related highlights involved the passage of tumbleweeds....
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Any hike that starts by completing the less than a mile hike to Alberta Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park should be a good way to start the day. Joni wanted to leave the Glacier Gorge Trailhead and make the somewhat lengthy hike to Black Lake. Maybe experienced hikers are in better shape and...
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Over the last two days, Gus has been sleeping on the sofa enjoying a set of flannel sheets and a Spiderman enhanced comfort pillow. Yesterday, during the morning hours it seemed like a good idea to drive to Golden, Colorado, and then to the Grand Lake area of Rocky Mountain National Park. Maybe the...
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Thanks to the rich tradition of the Boy Scouts of America an external frame technical backpack, right now is sitting on a rack in a basement closet. Touring the national parks is not meant to be technically challenging therefore it was time to get a new day hike centric backpack. After looking at a...
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At some point during the last year, it seemed like a good idea to attempt to visit every national park in the United States of America after reaching the age of twenty-five. Since the start of the challenge visits to Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona have resulted in two successful national park adventures...
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Thanks to the, “Save the H Foundation,” a link to the wonderful world of the fine folks at World66 was discovered and graphical presentations of world travels were created. Currently the map of States Visited looks better than the map of Countries Visited, but that is probably a byproduct of the travels associated with...
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While traveling to Wichita, Kansas, in a Chevy Blazer to attend a surprise birthday party Margie was traveling to Boulder, Colorado. Some of the travel plans required stopping off in Wichita, Kansas, on the way to Kansas City to pick up Ben the day before the surprise party. Tequila Harry’s catered the surprise birthday...
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Driving through the State of Iowa is not as much fun as you would think as the draconian highway laws have placed a firm moratorium on traveling above sixty-five miles an hour. Most the towns I passed on the way to Wisconsin were barely worth mentioning except for Davenport where I decided to stay...
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Last night I woke up after sleeping for a couple of hours confused and wondering exactly where I was in the world. While I was safe in the assumption that my relative place in the universe had not changed the fact that I was sleeping on a waterbed was enough evidence to motivate me...
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Right now I am in Kansas City enjoying the Great State of Kansas. Perhaps I will be able to finish all of my homework today and go out tonight, I have been trying to finish up my last few papers for finals week so that I could truly enjoy my vacation. Hopefully I will...
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Lemmings or so it goes, the path of the faceless, nameless, soulless hoard that occupies space with no other purpose than testing the limits of gravity’s patience is exactly what the airport always seems to be at least from my observations. Reason and logic do not matter to people who have not accepted the...
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Moving from Kansas City to Boulder, Colorado, this week has been difficult, but very rewarding especially in the context of this week
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If I had something to say that I thought was meaningful or profound, then this would be the time. However, on the offhand chance that I do manage to come up with something cleaver I will remember to post it on the internet. Right now, I have been working on several major problems, and...
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I find myself staring at the blank space on my computer screen in a feeble attempt to discern reason from chaos and accept the universal order of things beyond my understanding. Tomorrow at two in the afternoon in the central time zone, Shaq will return to L.A. and the Lakers will play the heat...
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I will be leaving for Wichita in a few minutes, and without a single comment flooding moment in almost two days.
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My Thanksgiving weekend will involve traveling to Wichita, Kansas, which is not one of the most exotic locations in the world. In fact, my weekend starts early in honor of Thanksgiving, because tomorrow I will travel to Wichita, but my first adventure of the week happened on Saturday night. I managed to...
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I had the chance to fly American Airlines, Inc. from San Diego to Dallas and then catch a connecting flight to Kansas City during both flights they were nice enough to give me a can of Dr. Pepper and a bag of pretzels. Theoretically, I was told that the airlines cannot serve peanuts anymore,...
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