Students from my home state of Louisiana learning to cross-country ski in the Sierra Nevada. (Español for "Snowy Range") Hilarity ensues. (No students were harmed in the making of this photograph)
posted by MountainJedi | 10:29 am
Chronicles of the Wayward MootWELCOME TO THE MOOT, oh world-wanderers and word-whisperers. After two years of Peace Corps. After 2,200 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. What. Comes. Next? |
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LINKS
Antarctica and Then Some
Big Dead Place
*Boingboing
C.A.D.
Couchsurfing
Craigslist Western Slope
Dirt Diva!
Drudge Report
Earth Spirit Medicine
*Geocaching.com
*LEHMANIMAGES
Married To The Sea
*MATADOR TRAVEL
Miles' Blog
National Geographic
New Zealand Herald
SCYTHIAN
Te Araroa, The Long Pathway
*TED
The Carbon-Free Home
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What I'm reading (List begun February 2006):
Lonely Planet Guide - Ecuador and the Galapagos, A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson, Ender´s Shadow - Orson Scott Card, Boilerplate Rhino - David Quammen, The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara, The Gold Bug and Other Tales - Edgar Allen Poe,
The Story of B - Daniel Quinn, Valverde's Gold - Mark Honigsbaum, My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe, Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris,
My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn, Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond, Hayduke Lives! - Edward Abbey, Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut, Beyond Civilization - Daniel Quinn, The Culture of Make Believe - Derrick Jensen, A Pirate Looks at Fifty - Jimmy Buffett, Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey, Beyond Civilization and When
They Give You Lined Paper Write Sideways - Daniel Quinn, Life of Pi - Yann Martel, The Tracker - Tom Brown Jr., The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin, Tales of a Female Nomad - Rita Golden Gelman, Rabbitproof Fence - Doris Pilkington,
Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins, BLINK * - Malcolm Gladwell, A Blistered Kind of Love - Duffy and Angela Ballard,
Dance of the Four Winds (Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel) - Alberto Villoldo, The Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder, The "On" Position - Katie Moran, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer,
Walking Down a Dream - Natasha Carver, Grandfather - Tom Brown Jr., The Multiplex Man - James P. Hogan, Rivers and Mountains Without End - Gary Snyder, COLLAPSE - Jared Diamond, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television - Jerry Mander, ENDGAME Volume I The Problem of Civilization and Volume II Resistance - Derrick Jensen,
Freakonomics - Steven Levy and Stephen Dubner, Bridge of Birds (A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was) - Barry Hughart, The End of Nature - Bill McKibben, The Essential Muir - John Muir, Providence_ The Story of a Fifty Year Vision Quest - Daniel Quinn, Deep Survival - Lawrence Gonzales,
Tales of Power - Carlos Castaneda, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zen Living - Gary McClain and Eve Adamson, A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold, The Last American Man - Elizabeth Gilbert, Timequake - Kurt Vonnegut
Doing Work You Love - Cheryl Gilman, Living the Wisdom of the Tao: The Complete Tao Te Ching and Affirmations - Dr. Wayne Dyer, Catching the Big Fish - David Lynch, The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castaneda,
Looking Out for #1 - Robert J. Ringer, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby, Case Files of the Tracker - Tom Brown Jr., The Demon-Haunted World (Science as a Candle in the Dark) - Carl Sagan, Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking,
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris, The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking, Tarnsman of Gor - John Norman, A Language Older Than Words - Derrick Jensen, Conserving the Environment - Opposing Viewpoint Series by Greenhaven Press, The Fool's Progress - Edward Abbey,
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach, The Six Ways of Atheism (New Logical Disproofs of The Existence of God) - Geoffrey Berg, 1984 - George Orwell, The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan, The Wise Heart (A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology) - Jack Kornfield, Awakening Spirits (A Native American Path to Inner Peace,
Healing, and Spiritual Growth) - Tom Brown, Jr., The Old Farmer's Almanac 2010 - "Robert Thomas," Zen Sex - Philip Toshio Sudo, The Reluctant Buddhist - William Woollard, The Universe in A Single Atom - The Dalai Lhama, The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, Psychedelic Shamanism - Jim DeKorne,
Why Your Life Sucks and What You Can Do About It - Alan Cohen, In The Absence of the Sacred (The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations) - Jerry Mander, The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollen, The Call of the Wild - Jack London, The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley, The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey,
Fast Track Photographer - Dane Sanders, The Bhagavad Gita - Translated by Eknath Easwaran, Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson MD, The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins, Awakening Spirits - Tom Brown Jr., Eaarth - Bill McKibben, Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl, In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan, The Immense Journey - Loren Eiseley, The Science of Happiness - Stefan Klein PhD, Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan, The Ultramind Solution - Mark Hyman MD
Instruments I'm Playing:
The Harmonica ... this will be it for a while. Perhaps forever.
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