Heart Lake Heart Lake campground was okay, but there was no water available. I had to get it from the lake. It doesn’t sound too bad, however there was only one campsite that had access to the lake and it wasn’t mine. Fortunately, a couple of nice guys from eastern Canada had it and told […]
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Wet and cold It had rained during the night at Mt. Robson Park, but a sliver of sun came out in the morning. Of course everything was soaked as I packed it up, but I was hoping for something drier ahead, so I got to work packing and loading up the bike. It always seems
Photography If you don’t know me well, you may not know that I love ghost towns. I also love photography, though I’m just a beginner. Now that you know these things, you’ll understand why I decided to plan a short trip to Bodie State Park and Mono Lake. I’ve recently upgraded my camera set up
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The trip In thinking over what I should say about the trip, I become overwhelmed. There is so much including how far I went, how long I travelled, what it cost, the gear, if my time researching was wasted, what I felt through the whole thing, just a lot to think about. I’ll try to
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Sleeping I was so excited to get home, I couldn’t sleep. Thinking a Benadryl would knock me out until it was time to get up, I took one. It didn’t work. I stayed awake most of the night and finally hit the road when the sun was fully up, about 0530. It wasn’t too bad
Nightly occurrence I am getting so tired of writing this, but of course a storm came up. While no rain fell this time, the wind was powerful. It sounded like the tent was going to get ripped apart. It wasn’t conducive to sleeping, but I was comfortable in the tent. The wind was so fierce,
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Another thunderstorm I woke up at about 0300 to flashing lights. I initially thought it was a problem with a street light or something, but very quickly realized it was a distant thunderstorm. It was so far off, I couldn’t hear the thunder, I could only see the lightening. It took about 40 minutes before
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Casual start I was feeling more excited to get home, but definitely still wanted to savor the time and the trip, so I decided to take it easy today. My ride would be fairly straightforward, just on the U.S. 2 out of Michigan, across Wisconsin, and into Minnesota. I was headed to the campground my
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Worst night ever After crawling in bed to get warm and falling asleep, the rain started coming down about 0100. It wasn’t a pouring rain, as it has been, but a steady, constant rain. In about 20 minutes, the tent started leaking. I quickly put my sleeping bag in its dry bag. It was freezing
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Clean bill of health With her clean bill of health, Lucille and I were ready to head to Maine. I was really looking forward to Acadia National Park and Stephen King’s house. Plus, Acadia would mark the furthest east I would go before turning west to head home. This would be a milestone. Cold! I
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