Tidbits - Oceanic Wilderness
Now that I found an easier way to get there, (I took a different way to get there, driving two-lane backroads through several nasty thunderstorms in the dark…I was very nervous a few times and kept being paranoid about potential flash floods... +Last weekend I drove to east Texas to visit one of my best friends Michelle. +In the creative realm I need to finish a drawing and a quilt and I have so much to write—blogs and ‘real’ writing too. I came to Texas a few weeks after she was born 4 years ago and met Kylen as a tiny baby and now she’s this tall, long haired, spitting-image-of-her-momma kid. Her daughter’s 4th birthday was this weekend—I can’t believe that one. It was fun, there were cupcakes, balloons, meeting Michelle and J. P. ’s extended family and friends…it was great. Now our computer room, where we are drying them out for a week before storing them, smells really onion-y.
The Ibex portable ultrasound machine –– priced at around $15000 –– can be taken into the elements, including dairy farms, wilderness and even ocean environments. This is an enormous progression from the bulky devices of even just 20 years ago at a
They've thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, paddled 6000 miles northward from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Arctic Ocean, and bicycled more than 8000 miles across North America from Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea to the northern