If you have ever gone a few years without a real vacation you know that with the passage of time the madness of work starts to all make sense and the insanity becomes your sense of normal. And I’m not talking about a vacation where you take the time off to put in a […]
Entries from May 2007
You know you’re ready for a road trip when…
May 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: Rants, Raves and the Zen Art of Road Trip Management
Skid marks on an Arctic gravel road
May 28th, 2007 · No Comments
The road is full of twists and turns. Drivers who claim to be it’s master are often ill prepared to solve the complex problems facing them at the road’s edge. In an attempt to help weed out the road warrior from the drivers-Ed dropouts, the last great road trip is providing a quick […]
Tags: Rants, Raves and the Zen Art of Road Trip Management
“The Haul Road” is the road trip
May 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Friends and family have asked why Deadhorse, why the Dalton Highway, why not Anchorage? I think the Bureau of Land Management described it best in their The Dalton Highway brochure when they wrote: “Ultimate Road Adventure The Dalton Highway is a primitive road that begins 84 miles (134 km) north of Fairbanks and ends […]
Tags: Arctic Circle 2007
Mapping out the route to the Arctic Circle
May 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Those in the northwest know Metsker Maps of Seattle as one of the greatest places to find directions. Located in Downtown Seattle on 1st Avenue between Pike & Pine, in the Sanitary Market Building of the historic Pike Place Market. They have a huge selection of maps and a ton of other geography […]
Tags: Arctic Circle 2007
An introduction to the driver’s seat
May 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff diving competitions in Sri Lanka and checkers tournaments at the Kremlin. I have performed open heart surgery, cloned sheep, rewritten history and…