Some days I wish that I’d never been to the Grand Canyon. Other days I wish that I’d started going there decades ago. Yes, it can be a beguiling mistress at times. It’s a place to go to lose oneself, find oneself, get hurt, get healed, and bond. No sooner […]

My loyal reader(s) will recall that some time back I did the Grand Canyon R3 (Rim to Rim to Rim). You may also recall that I ran into a spot of bother. This, as you might imagine, has been causing me some amount of nagging reflection. Yes, I did it, […]

I saw the light, I saw the lightNo more darkness, no more nightNow I’m so happy no sorrow in sightPraise the Lord, I saw the light – Hank Williams I’ve got more headlights than Ben and Jerry’s has flavours. Well… maybe not, but I’ve got a few. I’m not going […]

(Or… in which there really is a fine line between Badass and Dumbass) If you recall from the last installment we were just about at the north rim… Actually the north rim is not the exact halfway point by the route we were taking. You see, our return trip to […]

If in doubt… go anyway And that same day, too, gazing far down from his boat’s side into that same golden sea, Starbuck lowly murmured:— Loveliness unfathomable, as ever lover saw in his young bride’s eye!—Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks, and thy kidnapping cannibal ways. Let faith oust […]

Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum. – Lucretius. On par with or even greater than the importance of gear selection is nutrition and especially hydration. Anytime you get people talking nutrition… watch out! It’s probably worse than talking politics or religion. There are a lot of zealots, […]