Superb hike out of Whistler, B.C.
Trip report coming SOON. 🙂
Category: hiking
farewell Port Townsend
I had another wonderful visit hosted by Doug and Diana Davis.
I was there finishing final videotaping of Gymnastics Games. They should be released SOON. 🙂
Port Townsend is for outdoor adventure. I spent a lot of time on Doug’s excellent road bike.
Doug just invested in a company producing Elf bicycles in the USA.
I had one issue. An ingrown nail blew up. For some days I considered fleeing to the socialized Health Care of Canada.
It quickly healed after we released the pus. A-OK now.
Farewell PT. I should be back after New Years. 🙂
Expedition Idaho Adventure Race
7-days of continuous physical and mental challenge, almost no sleep, bad food, questionable water. Who invented this sport? 🙂
To stagger the start of Expedition Idaho, Race Director Dave Adlard, set a unique prologue.
Teams had to climb the toughest waterslide, starting over if anyone slipped.
If successful, they then took a victory lap … running the Lazy River. Backwards. 🙂
This is even tougher than it looks.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Gymnastics sport scientist Jeni McNeal is running this race.
Good luck.
Giant’s Cup, Drakensburg
Trip report – my longest hike in South Africa. 🙂
I’m already planning my next trip to southern Africa. June 2015.
Gxalingenwa hike, South Africa
My trip report is posted. 🙂
en route to Sani Lodge
Next stop is Sani Lodge:
It’s run by the author of A Backpackers Guide to Lesotho, Russell Suchet.
Looks great.
visiting Lesotho in Africa
I’ve posted the full trip report with photos on my hiking blog.
arrived Johannesburg
My host Derick Sholtz, owner and coach at Vision Gymnastics, picked me up at the airport after 35hrs or so in transit on Turkish Airlines.
(I contacted Turkish Airlines to inform how they had bungled the code share leg out of Seattle.)
After dropping by the gym to say hello to everyone, Derick dropped me at a lovely African themed accommodation called Didiloni.
I stayed in Warthog Hut.
I’m off via Baz Bus for 2wks hiking in the Drakensberg mountains. Back to the big city (8 million) for the month of February, volunteering.
JoBurg has the best weather in the world.
My biggest worry in South Africa is not crime … but possible vitamin D overdose. 🙂
en route to South Africa
today I fly,
the reason why
I spent 3 weeks in South Africa last year. And I’m going back to southern Africa for at least 6 weeks this time. Hiking. And as a Gymnastics volunteer.
I’ll be based out of JoBurg. Visiting Lesotho and Mozambique.
Johannesburg claims the best climate in the world. 🙂
Work or Play?
Kelley Durbin-Williams linked to this great truth:
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.”
Rick McCharles 