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- On two marathons
- The marathon
- Six weeks until the marathon
- Training for the TC Marathon
- Recap of the Baker Climb
- Baker photos and maps
- Summit and base camp attained
- Base-camp life
- Packing up
- D.C. di Chiaro
- Blue sky
- Scrubbed
- Wx, wx, wx
- Prep and wx watching
- Planning for Baker
- ABC/running watch
- The reasons I’m leaving CAP
- Post-climb funk
- Summit day
- Summitted!
- Final afternoon of trying to sleep
- Wx delay
- Revised summit plans
- Camp Schurman
- “Glacier Basin, Bob speaking”
- White River campground
- Grandma
- Climbing day
- Abort-centric
- Valley of Silent Men
- Mt Angeles, 2nd attempt
- TK-760H front-panel programming
- Aerial mosaic photography
- One last Nepal recording
- More sounds from Nepal
- Sounds from Nepal
- Nepal pictures edited and posted
- Home
- Hello, Chicago
- Let’s try this again
- Boarding, revised itinerary
- Headed home
- Wish we were all at the Hotel Norbu Linka
- Every trip reaches this point
- A day of holy sites
- Ah, Thamel
- Just enjoying Pokhara
- Guest blogger Emily’s story of danger and intrigue
- Back in Pokhara
- Trek is over
- One day closer to snow and ice
- Today we trek
- Still here
- Down day, trekking plans
- The view is improving
- Rain and clouds and a baby cat
- Settled in Pokhara
- In Nepal, but one flight remains
- In Istabul
- The team has assembled
- Packed and ready to go
- Processed Nepal photos posted on Flickr
- Automating CAP photo processing
- Nepal GPS logs
- AAR
- Preliminary pictures
- At O’Hare
- Boarding for the last leg
- …with boarding pass
- Back in Abu Dhabi
- Kathmandu airport waiting
- So it ends…
- Beautiful, final morning
- This leaving thing
- Visibility
- Loving it
- Cipro and Pringles
- Days are short
- Misty, pink mountains
- Relaxing
- Catching up
- I’m back in Pokhara
- Heading down
- May have to turn back
- Well, that took a turn for the worse
- Kicking ass
- Abbreviated first day on the trail
- Going to try it
- Trekking delayed til I get better
- Now I get sick…
- No mountains
- Back in Pokhara
- Trekking starts Wednesday
- Ideas for remaining weeks
- Back in Kathmandu
- At the farm
- Hard work, hot sun
- Headed to the farm
- Last night in Pokhara
- View from second breakfast
- Mid-morning mountains
- New Morning
- Warm-up hike
- A cell phone won’t do this justice
- First glimpse
- Settled in Pokhara
- Headed to Pokhara
- Last night in Kathmandu
- Success with technology
- Successful day. Worn out.
- Busy, expensive morning
- Moon over Kathmandu
- Abu Dhabi layover
- Bye, London
- Oops
- Settled in London
- On my way
- Final preparations today and tomorrow
- Nepal plans, updated
- For love of mountains
- Finding the Winds
- 02 August 1999
- Nepal plans
- Keeping the AC trekkable
- Love and climbing
- Home LED lighting
- No time to stop and think
- Kindle and first books for it
- A few books
- Civil Air Patrol GTM gear
- Civil Air Patrol UDF gear
- A freeramblin’ read
- Okay, I give up
- Fraud
- The ongoing fascination with Chomolungma
- Coal and anthropology
- Not what I was expecting, this book
- The grizzly bear, my mostly imagined nemesis
- Summer reading
- Mountain rant revisited
- Book backlog
- Vegan nacho bake
- Astronauts, a ballsy explorer and firefighters
- Transplant for my Roomba
- The shadow of death
- Recent classics in music and mountains
- 14 months of boredom
- Slow reading
- Coupl’a books
- The Cider House Rules, the book
- Surviving the end of the world, again.
- Leave Everest alone
- Another view of Annapurna
- Reading again
- Spotify signups are back, new U2 album
- No more new Spotify accounts
- Spotify workaround
- Windows 7 update
- Toilet paper
- Windows 7, insane calendar syncing
- Palin’s handle on things
- Latest books
- Books..
- Robust cell service
- A few new books…
- Moved
- Laundry detergent
- Love the city…
- You have to love Chicago’s mail service
- Flickr page
- Vista install nightmare
- So I never really knew what Patagonia was…
- The Other Face of “Annapurna”
- Fine print in our email
- Shades
- She’s Come Undone
- Hotel New Hampshire
- The World According to Garp
- Nepal trek story
- Annapurna, Tilicho
- New pics, more books
- Comcast stole my modem and won’t give it back
- Country mice
- More books
- Getting settled
- Buy this album
- “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
- Book list
- New place, new job
- Going to the city…
- Windows Vista beta
- My soon to be more famous mom
- Can I live without Microsoft?
- Asiago Cheese Bagels
- Summer vacation plans
- Last night’s speech: the positive
- Dish out, Tivo (and cable) in
- First post
- Hotel Norbu Linka
- 7/24/99 – Saturday – 9:45
- 7/23/99 – Friday – 22:15
- 7/22/99 – Thursday – 21:45
- 7/21/99 – Wednesday – 9:00
- 7/19/99 – Monday – 18:40
- 7/18/99 – Sunday – 16:00?
- 7/17/99 – Saturday – 12:15
- 7/17/99 – Saturday – 6:30
- 7/16/99 – Friday – Morning
- 7/15/99 – Thursday – 15:00
- 7/15/99 – Thursday – 6:10
- 7/14/99 – Wednesday – 11:00?
- 7/14/99 – Wednesday – 7:04
- 7/13/99 – Tuesday – 16:00
- 7/13/99 – Tuesday – Lunch
- 7/12/99 – Monday – 16:00
- 7/12/99 – Monday – Morning
- 7/11/99 – Sunday – 13:30
- 7/10/99 – Saturday – Evening
- 7/9/99 – Friday – 15:02
- 7/7/99 – Wednesday – 7:23
- 7/6/99 – Tuesday – 7:15