Ten Sleep is a small town up in north-central Wyoming. The town was a Native American rest stop that was 10 days travel or “10 sleeps” from Fort Laramie (near where I live). Here is my report from One Sleep on my travels. Shortly after leaving the Rest Stop yesterday, I enter Central Time Zone.…
I check my emails as per usual every morning, and I find that my scatophile friends are pleased with yesterdays’ Packing the Van Part Two post. The gourmands are disgusted with the mashed potato revelation. A blogger cannot hope for more than such intense emotional responses from readers. After those fun moments, my first day…
Clothes Packing clothes is a challenge. I always take too many anyway, and for this trip I need camping clothes, city clothes, and 5K training clothes. Since I am kind of picky about not wearing clothes more than one time before washing, I need to take quite a few items. Hey, that is why I…
It is hard to believe I finished week 4 already. It is the first real week of training. I was going to start counting weeks all over again, but stuff happens (like snow). Keeping the count going will give me a true idea how long it takes to be fit enough to run a 5K.…
Sleeping Bag Recommendations Many people purchase mummy bags. I find them a little too confining unless I use unzipped. It is wise to buy one rated to zero degrees. Sleeping bag technology is improved from the days when I was buying them. Fibers are much lighter and warmer, bringing bags into the very affordable…
Sunday afternoon or Monday morning I leave on my road trip to Ohio, so it is time to start packing. As you will see I am not one of those who throws a few clothes into a bag and heads out. I am the empress of “stuff”. That was not true when I backpacked and…
I got some very cool stuff recently while thrifting. You can see in the photo my treasures: khaki trench coat vibrant Columbia windbreaker (for 5K training), ivory silk shirt ivory cotton cardigan Since I cannot wear ivory , I will dye both of those pieces a bright color (ok with natural fibers). Total spent- $5.00…
I started this blog just over a year ago to share all my gardening wisdom. Then, we got slammed with a drought and the garden was less than stellar–certainly no reflection of the garden expertise that I claimed. Now, I’ve invaded this space with a bunch a rantings and ravings (sometimes more than once a…
Wondering where to go camping? The answer depends on where you live and how much time you have! I have camped for 40 years, in just about any type of setting you can imagine: national park, state park, county park, dispersed National Forest Land, BLM open space, wilderness areas, reserviors, 14er base camps, private campgrounds…
Sometimes Mother Nature has her own timeline. It is always wise to accept it…never mess with Mother Nature. Translation: I didn’t get much 5K training in, in fact I spent most of my training time indoors being lazy and watching the wonderful snow fall. However, mother nature did pause long enough for my perfect running…