Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 4 Comment(s) | 43 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=296615] | 2008-07-07 23:42:56
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Soarpheat - Chris McEachron
Well, I'm an aquarius who likes long walks on the beach. Actually, I think I'd rather be running on the beach trying not to die as I compete in the next Adventure Race. I'm a NOLS instructor, and there isn't an outdoor activity that i haven't tried, or at least want to. I have a chinchilla named Prusik and while I am myself fairly cute, Prusick definately can give me a run for my money. When asked what my favorite color is, I would respond, "red, NO! BLUE!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!" and be slightly disappointed if you didn't get the joke. According to some people, I have a unhealthy obsession with Superman, but I have absolutely no intention of doing anything to diminish that. I don't like chocolate but i really like blackberries. I can bench press 2000 pounds, but only if i do 100 pounds 20 times. And finally, I believe that body and facial hair on a man is a sign of masculinity and that it looks good. I frequently lie to myself and say that women think so too.This TravelBlog will contain accounts of my adventures, expeditions, and mishaps as I travel around the globe guiding. Read on, and enjoy.
-Chris
Joined on: April 18th 2007
Last Login: July 25th 2008
Blog Entries: 18
Photos: 343
Last Login: July 25th 2008
Blog Entries: 18
Photos: 343
Status: BLOGGER
Blogs & Travel Journals
by Soarpheat, order by Date newest first.
There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back — and I will. -Robert Service, from Spell of the Yukon Well Faithful Reader, I have returned from yet another excursion into the great wild yonder, and while my written recounting of the events that have unfolded wi [View Full Entry]
No more of parental rules! We're heading for the snow! Good riddance to those grown up ghouls! We're leaving! Yukon Ho! - Bill Watterson Hello everybody, Soarpheat here and once again, I've decided that the goings-ons of my life were interesting enough that someone other than me might be interested in them. As in like times past, that means that I am continuing in my trend of proudly putting many details of my life in a public forum and thinking that somebody somewhere might find them. I kind of sound like a weirdo when I put it that way. As is [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 4 Comment(s) | 30 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=286239] | 2008-06-11 20:00:51
By Soarpheat
April 21st 2008
April 21st 2008
Don't Quit Your Day Job
North America » United States » Kentucky » Frankfort
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. -Francoise de Motteville Well, believe it or not faithful readers, Soarpheat, AKA Chris McEachron for the first time ever has a full time 9 to 5 job. Pretty crazy huh? Anywho, I'll get to that shortly. When I last left you, I believe I was about to head off into the wild blue (hot) yonder back in Baja. It was a really cool course actually. My students were a hoot, a lot of fun and a pretty highly functioning group. My co-instructors were [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 5 Comment(s) | 9 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=268732] | 2008-04-22 01:13:24
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train. -Marcel Proust Wow, quite a bit of time has passed since I last posted a blog. For all of you who read it regularly and keep up to date, I apologize, and while I’d like to promise all of you persistant readers that such a horrendous lapse will never again occur, the best I can do is to tell you that I will [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 5 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=250358] | 2008-02-26 17:38:16
By Soarpheat
November 15th 2007
November 15th 2007
Smoke on the Water
North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur » Loreto
What, pray tell, would I buy? There is nothing out here that is not free for the asking. Can you buy a sunrise? Is there a price to the exhilaration we feel from the thunderstorm that rages outside? Nature is the truest democracy, and not the richest man in the world is served a grander sunset than the beggar. Michael Furtman Buenas dias todos! As some of you might now, I'm still in Baja. It's a tough life. My seminar went great. I learned quite a bit. I am now a very comfortable kayaker in 90% of doable conditions, and [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=219903] | 2007-11-15 15:39:12
By Soarpheat
October 14th 2007
October 14th 2007
One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila, Floor
North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur » Loreto
The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up. -Campbell Scott So the first thing that I must clarify is that I am not actually in Loreto. Loreto is about 100 km south. I am on La Playa de Coyote off of La Bahia de Conception. It's a pretty neat place. But first, lets recap a bit: After spending some quality time in Portland, I found that I had developed quite a liking for the tiny city that everybody thinks is so large (it only has 500,000 people). However, the time had [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=211285] | 2007-10-14 22:45:27
By Soarpheat
August 24th 2007
August 24th 2007
The Boy is Back In Town!
North America » United States » Washington » Issaquah
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place. -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ok, I know that may sound a bit arrogant, but Mozart definately was. So anyway, when we last tuned in, Soarpheat was getting ready to go on a sea kayaking trip with Chris's girlfriend Ashley and her family. Having never gone on a trip like that, none of the participants knew what was going to happen, [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 4 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=195725] | 2007-08-24 21:16:34
there is some shit i will not eat. -e. e. cummings I know that I told many of you that I would try to write earlier this summer. I feel as though some of you may have interpreted that to mean that i would write. Unfortunately, between my two courses, I became intensely preoccupied with vegetables and television. Imagine that. Anyway, as can hopefully be ascertained from this very blog, I am in fact still alive. After two back-to-back courses and several immediate personal trips, I am 20 pounds lighter, have about as many new scars, I've spent all of my [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 2 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=192255] | 2007-08-14 06:48:35
I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security. - William Orville Douglas 5/19/07 Start - 10:00 AM Pacific Time - Las Vegas, NV - 1600 ft above sea level Finish - 10:00 PM Mountain Time - Dixie National Forest, UT - 7652 ft above sea level Distance Traveled ~ 400 miles States - NV, AZ, and UT Zion National Park After my wild night in Vegas last night, I decided it would behoove me to sleep in a [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 6 Comment(s) | 52 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=162767] | 2007-05-27 00:00:00
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain 5/16/07 Start - 11:00 AM Mountain Time, Durango Co, 6463 ft above sea level Finish - 9:30 PM Pacific Time, Navajo National Monument AZ, 7423 ft above sea level Distance Traveled ~ 300 miles States - CO and AZ Mesa Verde National Park I definately got a late start this morning, but believe me [View Full Entry]
Soarpheat - Chris McEachron | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 7 Comment(s) | 134 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | [diary=159851] | 2007-05-18 00:00:00