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On to the PTL 24 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
Biking the Grizzly Flat trail with Liehann on Sunday. Well, it's time. Late last year, I got this inclination to plan something more "nutty" for 2013. Something that went far beyond the edge of my c....
Past the ones that I used to know 20 Aug 2013 | 11:42 am
Needles of rain drove in through the small opening in my sleeping bag as the plastic walls of the dining shelter reverberated a howling wind — fwap fwap fwap fwap. I'd made a midnight escape from Tent...
Yeah, I move slow and steady 17 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
Tent Fjallfoss was developing a consistent order of arrival that held without much variation for the rest of the week. First to arrive was always Beat, breezing in as though he'd been out for a pleasa...
But I feel like a waterfall 15 Aug 2013 | 03:24 am
For being thirty pounds heavier than I'm used to being, and then propelling myself across more than thirty miles of rocky dirt track with a loose lava-pebble side excursion, I woke up the second morni...
I move slow and steady 13 Aug 2013 | 10:34 am
My favorite places are all stark and windswept, expanses of uninterrupted space where my eyes are free to wander over the farthest, often unreachable horizons. I appreciate a great many variations of ...
Back from RTP Iceland 12 Aug 2013 | 08:39 am
Beat and I just returned to Reykjavik after a week of fun and scenic running across the highlands and along the southern coast of Iceland during the 2013 Racing the Planet Iceland event. With the exce...
Jill loves the Northlands 3 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
We arrived in Reykjavik on Friday afternoon, and are in the midst of a whirlwind of last-minute preparations before we leave for our weeklong trek on Saturday afternoon. I sadly don't even have a new ...
Zurich 2 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
We're packing up to leave for Iceland early Friday morning, so I'm making a vacationy photo-dump blog post for the sake of continuity (which is something I value highly in my nearly-eight-year-old jo...
Dot on the map 1 Aug 2013 | 02:31 am
Between his family reunion and our trip to Iceland, Beat needed to put in a heavy week of work at the Google office in Zurich. I had a few deadlines to keep myself, but beyond that I had some free tim...
Switzerland 29 Jul 2013 | 01:38 am
Beat and I flew to Zurich on Friday to attend a large family gathering for his brother's and sister-in-law's 25th wedding anniversary. The past 36 hours have been fun but exhausting, a whirlwind combi...
