A Blog About Things We Do

(places and topics list)

Category: Camping

  • We’re (probably not) moving to Tokyo (edit: ok, actually we are)

    We’re (probably not) moving to Tokyo (edit: ok, actually we are)

    Warning: This will be more of a high school emo style blog post without a lot of photos, so set your expectations accordingly!

    Note: if you’re reading this, either we’ve decided to move to Tokyo, or it’s been weeks or months since this discussion came up and we’ve decided not to and the thought has been well put to bed. I’m writing this for myself, to process my thoughts / feelings and document them for the next time this type of life changing issue comes up.

    Two weeks ago Lindsay got a “cold call” from a quality international school in Tokyo, Japan asking her to interview for a middle school position that starts in August of this year (roughly three months time). They had found her resume in a hiring pool from a job she had applied to a long time ago and reached out randomly and without prompting. This was totally out of the blue, and unexpected, and pretty “world rocking” to be honest. To be clear, we had absolutely zero plans on moving to Japan, or even visiting Japan this year, BUT… Tokyo! One of the worlds great cities! Japan! Curry! Onsen! Sento! Beautiful mountains and streams and Hokkaido in the fall! Easy access to Korea and Vietnam! Etc.

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  • Canada Part 2 and 3 and 4!

    Canada Part 2 and 3 and 4!

    Well, blogging while in Canada proved more difficult then I had expected. Mainly because of a lack of power, the fact that it’s not super easy to drive and type, and the fact that we were nearly always moving somewhere. So now I’m home, short on time as our India adventure is about to begin, and looking back.

    So, in the interest of time, I’m going to post a few photos that will generally give an idea of what the rest of our trip looked like.

    First, Lake Louise/Banff/Jasper.

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  • On the road

    On the road

    Well, we’ve done it. We are on the road. Currently writing this blog post from my cousin Alicia’s kitchen table [edit: this isn’t actually correct any more, but I wanted to finish this post and post it for historical purposes anyway – we’re now in Sault Saint Marie].

    The past few days were a bit of a whirlwind, although that’s a bit of a cliche. I think. Honestly, maybe it’s not, I don’t know.

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  • Camping on the North Coast Part 2: The Sea Awakens

    Camping on the North Coast Part 2: The Sea Awakens

    Lindsay and I decided to go camping again this weekend. It was awesome. It really is so incredibly awesome that we live only 2 hours from such an unbelievably beautiful place.

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  • Camping, Crabbing, and Freediving on the North Coast

    Camping, Crabbing, and Freediving on the North Coast

    Lindsay and I had a 3 day weekend for Veterans Day, and we decided to do some camping sort of activity for the weekend. AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE AWESOME WEEKEND.

    First, because I am guessing people might be wondering and I want to admit this right away: 1) We didn’t catch any crabs 2) I didn’t get any fish while freediving because I wasn’t spearfishing.

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  • Yosemite, Lake Mono, Sacramento Beer Tour!

    Yosemite, Lake Mono, Sacramento Beer Tour!

    It’s Sunday, 9:14am. If you crunch the numbers, that means roughly of the weekend is still available for activities. But! We’ve already done more this weekend then we’d normally do in a month.

    Let’s do a quick recap of the big items. For this exercise, you’ll have to pretend you haven’t already read the title of this blog post! Don’t look now if you haven’t already read it! And if you have but perhaps are a bit foggy on it, then don’t look back!

    • Yosemite National Park
    • Lake Mono
    • Northern California brewery tour
    • Tour of our states capitol
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  • Sykes hot spring bonus video: purify water

    Lindsay says that my previous post about Sykes hot springs makes it sound like we had a terrible time. We had an awesome experience, that was physically painful and exhausting. But I am honestly thrilled that we did it. To show more of our true emotion, here is a short video we took ~5 miles out from the end of the hike (note this is after we were stung by wasps, but before the pain got too hellish in the knee department.

  • Sykes Hot Spring Hike with Birthday Girl Lindsay

    Sykes Hot Spring Hike with Birthday Girl Lindsay

    I can barely walk today – today is Monday. Last night we returned home from Sykes hot springs, where Lindsay and I completed (yaaa!!!) a 2 day, 20 mile hike. This is my second (Lindsay’s first) hike-in backpacking trip (the first being much shorter, only a few miles, into Joshua Tree), and for whatever reason we decided that it would be a good idea to start our backpacking experience together with a trail rated “difficult.” See everytrail.com for details if you don’t believe me.

    NOTE FROM THE FAR FUTURE: This screenshot is missing, but it was a screenshot of the hiking on everytrail. Which I think is now alltrail? Either way, it was a difficult trail.

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