Sleeping in my own bed wasn't that great
Being back in the city wasn't that great
Alone time isn't that great
Learning I was born for travel was pretty great
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Sleeping in my own bed wasn't that great
Being back in the city wasn't that great
Alone time isn't that great
Learning I was born for travel was pretty great
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
2 weeks!
The road trip is getting me through this week and finals.
I plan to buy On The Road for road trip reading.
And I plan to try and do as much as possible on the trip, yet relax and go with the flow.
It's going to be great you guys!
I plan to buy On The Road for road trip reading.
And I plan to try and do as much as possible on the trip, yet relax and go with the flow.
It's going to be great you guys!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
new route
May:
23 – Fly out, get car ready
24 – Leave, drive, stop wherever
25 – Drive, arrive DNM. camp DNM
26 – DNM. camp DNM. (Maybe drive to Park City for Olympic Park?)
27 – Rafting
28 – Rafting ends, camp
29 – Leave DNM morning, to Arches (180 mi). Camp at Arches.
30 – Camp Arches
31 – Leave Arches, to Mesa Verde (130 mi). Camp at MV.
June:
1 – Leave MV. To Four Corners (50 mi). pass through to Jacob Lake, AZ.
2 – Jacob Lake to North Rim campsite (50 mi). Camp GC.
3 – GC.
4 – GC
5- Leave for Havasupai. Stay at Peach Springs.
6 – Day hike at Hava? Or whatever.
7 - Leave wherever, to Roswell (700 mi). Night at Roswell? or thereabouts.
8 - Carlsbad Caverns? (is nearby). Camp at CC. OR dump this and have more time somewhere else.
9 - Drive, arr Dallas. 500 miles from Roswell to Dallas
10 – (Free day-- can be used along the way or extra time in Dallas)
11 - fly home.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
rafting!
Our trip is booked! For posterity's sake, here is the trip description! We are going from Echo Park to Split Mountain!
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Dinosaur Expeditions' Yampa River rafting trips provide a quick but unforgettable way to experience the rare beauty and power of the Yampa River, one of Utah's finest natural treasures.
The Yampa (pronounced: yawmpah) River, the last undammed major tributary of the Colorado river system, begins its journey high in the Rockies above Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Most of its water comes from spring snowmelt and is best run during May and June when the water is highest. The Yampa joins the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument at Echo Park where Indians of the Fremont culture once lived over 1,000 years ago.
While the Yampa River is not a long river, (our trip is 71 miles) it offers some great whitewater from rapids named Teepee, Little Joe, Big Joe and Warmsprings. Most of the rapids are class III and Warmsprings is considered to be a IV providing us with big waves and big holes.
First explored in 1869 by fur trappers, the Yampa River has been inhabited for thousands of years. Along the river there are pictographs, eagles nests, large sandy beaches, towering sand stone walls, and the Warm Springs (which are, in fact, not warm), the biggest pond of watercress we've ever seen. We invite you to come explore it with us.
To float the Yampa River is to discover a Diamond In The Desert. At the Deerlodge launch site you are surrounded with old homesteads and bucolic pastel vistas. Meandering through breath taking tawny sandstone and racing through thundering rapids your journey passes by a multitude of secretive places drenched in history, and beauty. Along the way your guides will share their knowledge of the “River’s Secrets.”
An abandoned homestead and corrals peer from shore, hidden and aloof from the world. Caves that sheltered the mysterious Fremont People invite your exploration. Peregrine falcons call from their nests high above on walls draped with desert varnish. At Harding Hole, a hike up a slot canyon ends with vast panoramas of the canyons below. Paradise after paradise slips by as the Yampa River lulls you into its magical grasp. Downstream the booming of rapids with names like Teepee and Warm Springs change your pace and fills the day with anticipation and excitement.
As the Yampa River joins the Green River at Echo Park, one can literally feel the monumental and complex issues that raged to save the canyon during the mid-1900’s. In the most significant conservation battle of all times, a dam was stopped and two river canyons saved. Here, in the heart of the planet, petroglyphs from a long passed civilization grace the walls. Caves and hidden shelters purvey cool escape from the desert heat. A several mile hike passes intricate pictographs, an abandoned ranch once operated by the Chew Family and ends at a cave habited by desert hermit Pat Lynch. On return to the Yampa River the omnipresent slender Steamboat Rock nearly circled by a stunning river meander, oversees the landscape.
From Echo Park your journey enters Whirlpool Canyon, Island Park and finally Split Mountain Canyon (see Lodore Canyon). A trip down the Yampa River, the West’s last undammed river, merges relaxation and excitement in your discovery of this Diamond In The Desert.
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I'm pumped! Last time I went rafting was in Colorado and my mom fell out and had to be saved by kayakers! So hopefully that won't happen to us! Also hopefully one of those peregrine falcons is Jake! What.
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Dinosaur Expeditions' Yampa River rafting trips provide a quick but unforgettable way to experience the rare beauty and power of the Yampa River, one of Utah's finest natural treasures.
The Yampa (pronounced: yawmpah) River, the last undammed major tributary of the Colorado river system, begins its journey high in the Rockies above Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Most of its water comes from spring snowmelt and is best run during May and June when the water is highest. The Yampa joins the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument at Echo Park where Indians of the Fremont culture once lived over 1,000 years ago.
While the Yampa River is not a long river, (our trip is 71 miles) it offers some great whitewater from rapids named Teepee, Little Joe, Big Joe and Warmsprings. Most of the rapids are class III and Warmsprings is considered to be a IV providing us with big waves and big holes.
First explored in 1869 by fur trappers, the Yampa River has been inhabited for thousands of years. Along the river there are pictographs, eagles nests, large sandy beaches, towering sand stone walls, and the Warm Springs (which are, in fact, not warm), the biggest pond of watercress we've ever seen. We invite you to come explore it with us.
To float the Yampa River is to discover a Diamond In The Desert. At the Deerlodge launch site you are surrounded with old homesteads and bucolic pastel vistas. Meandering through breath taking tawny sandstone and racing through thundering rapids your journey passes by a multitude of secretive places drenched in history, and beauty. Along the way your guides will share their knowledge of the “River’s Secrets.”
An abandoned homestead and corrals peer from shore, hidden and aloof from the world. Caves that sheltered the mysterious Fremont People invite your exploration. Peregrine falcons call from their nests high above on walls draped with desert varnish. At Harding Hole, a hike up a slot canyon ends with vast panoramas of the canyons below. Paradise after paradise slips by as the Yampa River lulls you into its magical grasp. Downstream the booming of rapids with names like Teepee and Warm Springs change your pace and fills the day with anticipation and excitement.
As the Yampa River joins the Green River at Echo Park, one can literally feel the monumental and complex issues that raged to save the canyon during the mid-1900’s. In the most significant conservation battle of all times, a dam was stopped and two river canyons saved. Here, in the heart of the planet, petroglyphs from a long passed civilization grace the walls. Caves and hidden shelters purvey cool escape from the desert heat. A several mile hike passes intricate pictographs, an abandoned ranch once operated by the Chew Family and ends at a cave habited by desert hermit Pat Lynch. On return to the Yampa River the omnipresent slender Steamboat Rock nearly circled by a stunning river meander, oversees the landscape.
From Echo Park your journey enters Whirlpool Canyon, Island Park and finally Split Mountain Canyon (see Lodore Canyon). A trip down the Yampa River, the West’s last undammed river, merges relaxation and excitement in your discovery of this Diamond In The Desert.
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I'm pumped! Last time I went rafting was in Colorado and my mom fell out and had to be saved by kayakers! So hopefully that won't happen to us! Also hopefully one of those peregrine falcons is Jake! What.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Equipment list:
Equipment list:
- Backpacks. Since we will only be in Havasupai one night (Assuming I get a reservation.) I don't think we'll need large packs for hiking, but just normal backpacks. We'll only need some food and clothes, and sleeping bags and tents. I'll talk to my dad about the size of the tent (he might buy a new one for us.) and the sleeping bags. They should be pretty small.
- Knives. Super important for cutting things, opening things, cooking, and feeling badass.
- Cooking stove. Even if we don't use it and cook over a camp fire, this is still a good idea and small.
- Water purifier. I don't do those purifying pills, if those are even still around.
- Sleeping bags. I'll bring our backpacking ones, but also we should all bring our normal ones.
- Sleeping pads/rolls. Not that important to me really, but what is everyone else's opinion on these?
- Survival stuff. Space blanket, snake bite kit, first aid, etc. (I'll add more specifics as I think of them.)
- Water canteens and stuff. Of course.
- Utensils and awesome army transforming plates.
- Awesome Transforming Army Shovel in case we have to bury some...thing.
- Others. Like Rope, tarp, garbage bags and matches and stuff but we can probably buy things on the way so no big deal with these things.
Friday, March 30, 2007
notes from debbie downer
This is kind of in reply to Keith's post! I just thought it would be a good idea to get out some ground rules, or whatever. We've all already posted our awesome trip goals, but maybe we should post some... anti-goals? Pet peeves? Or something? Just... the last roadtrip I took with someone I think we were kind of at cross-purposes at some times and it was frustrating.
So, like Keith, I'm hoping that this trip will be relaxing! But also I want to see/do stuff. So I think at the outset of the trip we should work out things like... what time we want to getup. Like, on the last trip I took I always got up first and started getting breakfast ready and everything and my travel partner wanted to sleep in because we were on vacation. Which is valid, but also... if you waste the morning on a camping trip that's a lot of daylight time that can be used for hiking or swimming or something awesome. Of course there's balance, like on some days maybe we can get up early and watch the sunrise and some days we can be more relaxed, depending on our travel plans and where we are and ETC.
Also I think we should try to clearly work out things like how we're splitting payment for gas and food and stuff, and also tasks like cooking and cleaning. We're all friends and I don't want to sound paranoid, but even the best of us can get secretly passive-aggressively resentful about crap like feeling like you're doing more than your fair share of work.
I think talking about this in advance (perhaps in person on our first day in Dallas or perhaps in an SLN chat) will make our trip more relaxing!
Also I would like to take this opportunity to be upfront about one of my biggest pet peeves, which is BACKSEAT DRIVERS. Priscilla, I know it can be nervewracking to have other people drive your car, and I have no reason in particular to suspect you of being a backseat driver (and Keith you don't even know how to drive so you should be golden), but just in case: please don't do things like gasp when I change lanes or point out stop signs that are still like 20 feet away unless it appears that our lives are in immediate danger from my driving. Thank you.
So, like Keith, I'm hoping that this trip will be relaxing! But also I want to see/do stuff. So I think at the outset of the trip we should work out things like... what time we want to getup. Like, on the last trip I took I always got up first and started getting breakfast ready and everything and my travel partner wanted to sleep in because we were on vacation. Which is valid, but also... if you waste the morning on a camping trip that's a lot of daylight time that can be used for hiking or swimming or something awesome. Of course there's balance, like on some days maybe we can get up early and watch the sunrise and some days we can be more relaxed, depending on our travel plans and where we are and ETC.
Also I think we should try to clearly work out things like how we're splitting payment for gas and food and stuff, and also tasks like cooking and cleaning. We're all friends and I don't want to sound paranoid, but even the best of us can get secretly passive-aggressively resentful about crap like feeling like you're doing more than your fair share of work.
I think talking about this in advance (perhaps in person on our first day in Dallas or perhaps in an SLN chat) will make our trip more relaxing!
Also I would like to take this opportunity to be upfront about one of my biggest pet peeves, which is BACKSEAT DRIVERS. Priscilla, I know it can be nervewracking to have other people drive your car, and I have no reason in particular to suspect you of being a backseat driver (and Keith you don't even know how to drive so you should be golden), but just in case: please don't do things like gasp when I change lanes or point out stop signs that are still like 20 feet away unless it appears that our lives are in immediate danger from my driving. Thank you.
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