Adventuring in the World and Spirit
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on May 7th, 2010
I found myself looking at the trees and cloudless blue sky and feeling a sense of joy. Then I realized that I had found some sort of balance in living between seemingly opposing worlds. I feel halfway between the forest and humanity, halfway between carefree and responsible, halfway between selfish and selfless. By looking at [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on May 6th, 2010
How long has it been since you lay on your back and watched the stars? I know that I cherished doing just that tonight. I had a nice platform to lay on because Joe and I cut planks and laid them on the second floor deck. In the few minutes that I spent gazing, I [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure on May 4th, 2010
I cut down two pine trees today as we are running out of the trees that we had gathered earlier. These trees were full of water and were heavy. They, however, peeled very quickly and easily. I struggled to get the first log up to the second floor. The black flies today are out in [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on May 2nd, 2010
Tired! We’ve gotten up to the second floor. Tomorrow I’m planning on putting up the floor joists and milling up floorboards out of a large white pine.
Posted in Motorcycling Central and South America, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on Apr 30th, 2010
The log cabin walls are just over my head now. We seem able mill, peel and lay close to two courses of logs a day. It was a blustery and cold day that brought plenty of sun and blue sky, but strangely enough also brought snow showers. After we layed our daily ration of two [...]
Posted in Cabin Building Adventure, Primitive Living and Bush Craft on Apr 25th, 2010
As I’ve been building this log cabin I’ve had a feeling that I’ve been spending time with old friends. The Spruce Tree, the Moon, Deer, Owl, Loon and Birch. We’ve had a spell of clear weather has brought starry nights and a clear moon tracing through the branches and new buds of the trees. The [...]
Posted in Motorcycling Central and South America on Mar 9th, 2010
I bought a ticket for the National Park this morning. When the bus came, there was some confusion and the bus needed to take a dozen Israeli people to Emerald Lake. It didn’t matter to me, so I went along and got a free ride to Emerald Lake and saved my ticket to the National [...]
Posted in Motorcycling Central and South America on Mar 7th, 2010
A dramatic beginning presented it’s self today and a dramatic ending occurred as well. To leave the campground, the very first thing that I did was ford the river with the motorcycle. Then as I rode the sun came up and the sky was brilliant red and shades of pink. It was very beautiful. I [...]
Posted in Motorcycling Central and South America on Jan 28th, 2010
On the ride along the Costa Rica coast I passed a sign for the Carara National Park which is near Jaco. I had seen it on the map and the dirt road behind the sign was intriguing, so I turned around. I followed the track for many miles through thick jungle. I stopped by a [...]
Posted in Motorcycling Central and South America on Jan 28th, 2010
After a nice time at a beach in southern Nicaragua, I went to the Costa Rica border crossing. Exiting Nicaragua was a little slower than normal because those of us with vehicles had to wait for the police officer who did the inspections to return. When I arrived at the Costa Rica border, there was [...]