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

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By Soarpheat
November 27th 2008

Paying rent? I think I'll try that... North America » United States » Virginia » Leesburg

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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. -Tom Robbins Well, faithful readers, I'm back. As always, I sincerely apologize for the long delay, but I assure you that this entry will be worth the wait. You see, as my constant companions through my trials, tribulations, and totally awesome experiences (alliteration notwithstanding), I feel as though I have come to know you nearly as well as I hope that you know me. As such, my next announcement may come as somewhat of [View Full Entry]

By Soarpheat
September 10th 2008

one more time! North America » Mexico » Baja California » Ensenada

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Ahh... it seems that the illusive blogger Soarpheat is poised and ready to once again enlighten the universe with the goings ons and comings arounds of the tiny but insightfully unique world that is my crazy life. Whew! That sentence took some force to put out, but now that it is there, there it will stay. Thanks to the wonder that is the internet of course. So, where did I leave off ages ago? I believe that I was writing from Whitehorse, Yukon, having just finished my last NOLS course. Right now, I am at the NOLS twig in Ensenada, [View Full Entry]

By Soarpheat
July 7th 2008

Unemployed Once Again... North America » Canada » Yukon » Whitehorse

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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 will in all liklihood be [View Full Entry]

By Soarpheat
June 11th 2008

Who needs headlamps? North America » Canada » Yukon » Whitehorse

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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]

By Soarpheat
April 21st 2008

Don't Quit Your Day Job North America » United States » Kentucky » Frankfort

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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]

By Soarpheat
February 26th 2008

Back in Baja North America » Mexico » Baja California Sur » Loreto

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]

By Soarpheat
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]

By Soarpheat
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]

By Soarpheat
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]

By Soarpheat
August 14th 2007

But Not Much North America » United States » Wyoming

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]

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