http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Soarpheat/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Soarpheat en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:34:49 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:34:49 +0000 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 RobbinsWell 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 tribulatio http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Virginia/Leesburg/blog-349118.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California/Ensenada/blog-321813.html Therersquos a land where the mountains are namelessAnd the rivers all run God knows whereThere are lives that are erring and aimlessAnd deaths that just hang by a hairThere are hardships that nobody reckonsThere are valleys unpeopled and stillTherersquos a land mdash oh it beckons and beckonsAnd I want to go back mdash and I will.Robert Service from Spell of the YukonWell Faithfu http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Yukon/Whitehorse/blog-296615.html No more of parental rulesWe're heading for the snowGood riddance to those grown up ghoulsWe're leaving Yukon Ho Bill WattersonHello everybody Soarpheat here and once again I've decided that the goingsons 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 deta http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Yukon/Whitehorse/blog-286239.html The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.Francoise de MottevilleWell 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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Frankfort/blog-268732.html 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 Irsquod like to promise all of you per http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California-Sur/Loreto/blog-250358.html 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 FurtmanBuenas dias todosAs some of you might now I'm still in Baja. It's a tou http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California-Sur/Loreto/blog-219903.html The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.Campbell ScottSo 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 bitAfter spending some quality time in Portland I found that I had developed quite http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California-Sur/Loreto/blog-211285.html 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 MozartOk 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 kayaki http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Issaquah/blog-195725.html there is some shit i will not eat.e. e. cummingsI 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 f http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wyoming/blog-192255.html I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops selfreliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security. William Orville Douglas 51907 Start 1000 AM Pacific Time Las Vegas NV 1600 ft above sea level Finish 1000 PM Mountain Time Dixie National Forest UT 7652 ft above sea level Distance Traveled 40 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Wyoming/blog-162767.html 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 51607 Start 1100 AM Mountain Time Durango Co 6463 ft above sea level Finish 930 PM Pacific Time Navajo National Monument AZ 7423 ft ab http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-159851.html A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything. Laurence Sterne 51307 Start 500 AM Eastern time Louisville KY 642 ft above sea level Finish 1000 PM Mountain time Des Moines NM 6452 ft above sea level Distance traveled 1200 miles States Kentucky Indiana Illinois Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and New http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Colorado/Durango/blog-158894.html Hey everybody I just wanted you all to know that I stayed a little later in Durango to post all of my pictures so far. Well I'm off to Mesa VerdeSoarpheat http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Colorado/Durango/blog-159095.html Until further notification my address will beChris McEachronPO Box 333Lander Wy82520 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-159175.html Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo EmersonWell everybody I guess that technically today is the big day. Today is the day that I leave the protectionconfines of home and head out looking for the dangeradventure of the great Out There. My truck is packed and there's really no reason for me to be awake right now 5 short hours befo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Louisville/blog-157825.html I'm an outdoor man and I don't do any work unless I want to.Johnny WeissmullerHey everybody Ideally if you are getting an email saying that I wrote this I'm awesome. If not I'm pretty cool but not quite at awesome status. I wanted to give everybody a head's up as far as where I'm going to be and what I'm going to be doing roughly. On Tuesday May 8th I'm going to pack up all of my stuff http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Murray/blog-151909.html So this entry really only serves one main purpose. I just added to the subscribe list all of the people that I met during my NOLS IC last summer in Lander so now all of you can decide whether or not you wanted to stay subcribed or not. Easy to change if we need to. However for all of you who helped take this nonNOLSie and make him an instructor way to be Basically I'm sending out this ent http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Murray/blog-151918.html Howdy everybodyLet me explain what's going to be happening on this action packed site. Starting in May and for the next God knows how long I will be for the most part incommunicado. My address will be my folk's house 10922 Hobbs Station Rd Louisville KY 40223 and they will alert me if something comes that needs my attention. My phone will be my cell phone although a majority of the time http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Murray/blog-150015.html In order to see much one must learn to look away from oneself every mountain climber needs this hardness. You must climb above yourself up and beyond until you have even your stars under you. Yes To look down upon myself and even upon my stars that alone would I call my summit that has remained for me my ultimate summit. Friedrich Neitzsche There are times when I donrsquot have to b http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Kentucky/Land-Between-The-Lakes-National-Recreation-Area/blog-150020.html