Travel
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
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Living on a raft…
It’s lovely to live on a raft and sometimes we’d have that whole river to ourselves for the longest time.” -Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain Tweet
Ever-present
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only…
Tales from the Rookies-those who were not offered a job
“I have to quit training. My muscles are too big.” Cockiness and excuses are bad traits by themselves, in combination they are even worse (but funny!). Tweet
We should always be learning.
I absorb ideas from every course I can, and put them to practical use.
Tales from the Wild-Crow Not the Best Meal
According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated Wash. Biol. Surv. until the agency received the following letter from an Arkansas camper: Dear…
U.S. Navy Battleship vs. Modesitt Canoe
As we pass a Navy ship I look up in awe at its size and power. I would hate to come up against this thing in a fight. But then again, i would doubt that they could see Kerala, our canoe, from there anyway. Near the end of the boat I see two sailors waving…