Posts from ‘December, 2009’

It’s beginning to be time to think about what I want to do on my next vacation now and it’s already pretty clear. I’ll be in Baja for only one rotation this year, so it would be foolish of me to do not hang out for a little while after I’m done. I’ve wanted to [...]

While I was never exactly a heavy packer to begin with, I always thought I was pretty good about not packing too much stuff. That is until I started meeting some of the folks in airports and at work and seeing what they carry with them. You can always tell the ones that have some [...]

Well, I hope that everyone is having a great time, where ever you are in the world!
I got the one thing I really, really needed. A new camera! Its pretty nice 10 mega pixel Nikon point and shoot. Now I won’t have any reason to not have good pictures here, and I’m really happy [...]

I’ve been spending some good time working out the bugs on the site here, and things are coming along pretty well. To the right here, you can search for key words to help with research and what not, and if I’ve talked about it, you should be able to find it. If you scroll down [...]

I’ve been doing some work the internals of the website over the last couple of days, and hope to start working on fixing up the stuff that you all can see soon. For now, I’ve added some good books for download that are in PDF format, please take a look and download them for future [...]

As previously mentioned, I am a bit up in the air over what I want to do for an expedition vehicle to get me through the next couple of years. I love my faithful Hi-Lux, it’s been a great companion on lots of great trips, but it’s getting to be time to do some work [...]

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For quite some time now, I’ve wondered what the answer to this question is. Many years have I spent pondering the solution and trying to find the one answer that would satisfy my quandary.
When I think of freedom, I think of it from the political sense. Thoughts of the US Constitution, the Bill of [...]

I look ahead and see myself doing different things with this blog. I’ve taken a little time off from the whole thing in an attempt to take a step back and look at what it was that I hoped to accomplish with it and the answer has come to me that I should continue to [...]

In the month of November every year the ship that I work on comes to Alameda, California in the San Francisco Bay Area to get some work done and go through a Coast Guard inspection. The whole process is really quite chaotic, because this is one of few opportunities to do work on the ship [...]