Thoughts Of A Free Man

I haven't been on a good hike or even outside in awhile so today I took the dog and headed down the Natchez Trace to Garrison Creek. I bought a little guide book yesterday and this looked like a good hike, 6.7 miles all together. The trail was steep t first then leveled off and ran across a pretty... Sign in to see full entry.

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I think Justine Shapiro is a sexy woman. She is one of the more prominent hosts on the television show Globe Trekker. I first discovered Globe Trekker while lying in a hotel bed at the Hilton (I think) in Kuwait. Inthat episode Justine toured southern California. Shortly afterwards, back in Iceland... Sign in to see full entry.

get to Moab? That is the question for me to answer this morning as I progress the story of Eddy and his new found friend Caroline. What will be the new turn of the plot, who will they meet and what will he or she look like. What will they do for fun? Will Eddy stoop to staying in a hostel (a funky... Sign in to see full entry.

which is coming along pretty well, at nearly ten thousand words in five days. That seems like not much but it is many many pages. This morning I read a review of Car Camping written by Anthony Bourdain. I found the review based on Car Capming's author, Mark Sundeen's thinly veiled rebuke of the... Sign in to see full entry.

I just finished watching one of my favorite movies: Sideways. If you have ever been heartbroken like I recently have there is no therapy like sitting alone knocking back a bottle of red wine and watching Paul Giamatti's character work his way through his own pain at the loss of a relationship. The... Sign in to see full entry.

She walked in front of him down the trail through the Douglas firs and hemlocks, stepping over banana slugs, salal rubbing against their bare legs. Late afternoon sunlight filtered through the trees to form a cathedral of the Earth and he was conscious of the beauty all around. The beauty of his... Sign in to see full entry.

Well I'm moved in now. No more transience, at least for a little while. I should do some laundry and arrange things a bit today...maybe later. Right now I have a good camping cup full of Maxwell House andsomebody's wireless connection. Its such a pleasant surprise when you turn on the laptop and... Sign in to see full entry.

After 27 days of restless motion and gypsidity I will finally move into my new apartment tomorrow. With internet coming Monday and a couple of more unemployment checks I should keeping better track of my cyberspace world in the near future. Sign in to see full entry.

I just came from a little bar a block from where I went to college (the first time). Harold Ford, who is running for Bill Frist's seat in the Senate was there and I shook his hand...its that kind of bar. He and another politician liked my Polygamy Porter t-shirt, or so they said so I like them. I... Sign in to see full entry.