A transcription of the journal entries shown in these photos begins below the last photo. A more proper blog post with lots of photos will be up soon! Transcription: Saturday, July 23 to Monday, July 25, 2002SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK Five-star tours from the King and Queen of the park! Pat and Dyanne are family friends … More Laura’s Journal: Three Days in Shenandoah
Transcription of the photographed journal pages can be found below! Also, photos! Transcription: Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15, 2022STARFEST! Welcome to the last StarFest of… well, ever. Due to financial and practical strains, this will be the last ever StarFest, #45, which is a crying shame. This weird, wonderful convergence of people is … More Laura’s Journal: The Last StarFest
A transcription of the photographed journal pages can be found below! Also, photographs of real things. Transcription: Tuesday, May 10, 2022OUT OF SAN FRANCISCO TO RENO We got Matt out of San Francisco! It was close – he suffered a few moments of Leavers’ Remorse over the last couple days of our stay, but by … More Laura’s Journal: San Francisco to Reno
A transcription of the photographed journal pages can be found at the bottom of the page. Also, lots of photos because it turns out I’m too far behind on regular blog posts to catch up. So! Transcription: Sunday, May 8 and Monday, May 9, 2022GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREASUTRO BATHS & FORT POINT When I … More Sutro Baths & Golden Gate
A transcription of the photographed journal pages can be found at the bottom of this post. I’ve given up on the idea that I’ll ever turn this into a proper blog post, so a slideshow of photos is also included. Joy! Cocktails woooo! The things you find hanging on walls… Transcription: Saturday, May 7, 2022 … More Laura’s Journal: We eat, drink, and read our way through San Francisco
Transcriptions of the journal pages in the photographs below can be found at the bottom of the page. I’ve stopped believing I’ll ever turn this into a proper blog post, so I’ve included photos here. The gulls do not care. Transcription: Thursday, May 5, 2022 GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION: ALCATRAZ ISLAND Welcome to San Francisco! … More Laura’s Journals: Alcatraz, of course
For a transcription of these photographed journal pages, please scroll down! A fancier blog post with loads of pictures will hopefully get posted someday. Transcription of photographed journal pages: Tuesday, May 3, 2022GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK Who knew Nevada was so high?? In my defense, apparently I’ve spent my whole life under the impression that … More Laura’s Journal: Great Basin National Park
“If you don’t stop picking huckleberries, we’ll be late for dinner!”
“So we’ll have huckleberries for dinner!”
“You burned, like, 6,000 calories today. If you eat huckleberries for dinner tonight, I’m going to have to carry you down tomorrow, and I don’t want to.”
Back in the car we ate sad peanut butter sandwiches and stared glumly at the list of hikes we wanted to do.
“It’s going to be tough to hike ten miles to Grinnell Glacier here, drive thirty miles, then do another three-mile hike to sleep,” I said, resenting the seven miles I’d already hiked today.
We considered other hikes nearer the campsite. We considered other campsites nearer the hike. No combination worked in a satisfying way.
“This is really stupid,” I concluded. “I want to go home.”
We sat in the car, staring at our tent in bemusement for a few silent moments.
“Huh,” one of us finally said.
Our tent sat in the middle of a perfect circle of standing water, as if it had decided to grow its own moat. It was perfectly centered. I judged the moat’s depth at about two inches.
… More North Cascades National Park, where contradictory things went awry
Thither & Yon 