Motivators
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things-to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.” -Edmund Hillary Life here is all about the uber athlete. You… Continue reading
Category Archive: outdoors
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Bad Blogger!
Writing is hard. Partially because it takes a tremendous amount of discipline to sit down at a computer and not wander over to the internet to do your Christmas shopping, and when you… Continue reading
Some Life Lessons at 5840
1.) Middle aged people are not the only ones who feel the altitude. Dogs, too, have to get acclimated and are great to bring along on mountain hikes as they provide… Continue reading
Natural Experiences
“…we’ve not merely escaped from something but also into something…we have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but with everything which shares with us the great… Continue reading
All is Well.
We are here. Life is good. It has been a busy week. We arrived last Saturday and unpacked our zillion boxes, settled our rooms, crammed summer reading, finished school forms, attended orientation at… Continue reading
Mellow in Montana
We’ve enjoyed two days of rest from our travels-decompressing at a friends’ ranch in Montana. They took us up into the hills to see an old “buffalo jump;” an area where Native Americans … Continue reading
Awe Inspiring
We spent 10 hours and made our way from Rapid City to West Yellowstone with stops at some pretty spectacular displays of nature along the way: Devils Tower, Big Horn National Forest, Old… Continue reading
Westward Ho
Sitting on a rooftop watching shooting stars in Rapid City, South Dakota. All is well. We’ve watched the landscape change from endless miles of corn and wind towers to grasslands to Badlands and… Continue reading