We call funnel effect getting all the things done that need to be done before departure. It's like getting a lot of material through a small hole in a short amount of time. We are one week from heading north. Last Friday we loaded the 5th wheel with 4000 lbs of building materials. I still need to find space in the truck for all our tools. Lots of little things to arrange for like mail, bill forwarding, and yard maintenance.
The header picture was photo-shopped for a column in the dune buggy club magazine. I couldn't resist writing a buggy spoof about what we will be doing.
A bit of wanderlust combined with a garage full of cool things. Beginning in April 2010 follow our cabin build history and other adventures in remote Gustavus, Alaska
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"Most of us live a cautious life on the principle of safety first; but to live the Christian life there is necessary a certain reckless willingness to adventure. If faith can see every step of the way, it is not really faith."
Wm. Barclay
“Few frontiers would have been settled without that special breed of women who have always followed the footsteps of their wandering husbands.” Wayne Short, from “The Cheechakoes”
"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing."
Helen Keller
"...not all those who wander are lost"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Samuel Clemens
"Truth is the cry of many but the game of few." --George Berkeley
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
Albert Camus
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. "Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gian Carlo Menotti
Langston Hughes
About Me
- Mel (AKA Dad, Papa Mel, Grampa)
- Not retired, just tired. Married 44 years. Viet Nam Vet (1st Cavalry Division). Enjoying life!
3 comments:
the new photo is hilarious. is that mom? good luck getting everything done. I know you will...
It's Tanya, a Russian lady who visited us a few years ago.
You could also say that getting all that stuff done is like getting hit with a "whale of a splash"....hahaha!
See you soon in P-town!
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