Hi everyone, I'm just ducking into the public library to give you all a shout out from Sarnac Lake Village, NY. The bugs weren't so bad, but there was a tough little portage and up stream paddle along the Raquette River! Some very low class II rapids, mostly a walk and less of a paddle. Brett and I are doing well and actually have seen some sweet wild life. There was a very curious pine martin that decided to pay us a visit at camp last night, we saw a HUGE snapper turtle (I'm talking bite your paddle apart big) that [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, This is just a quick little blurp about how our trip is going so far. Brett and I have had a productive and busy couple of days. We have canoed across ten (and a half -Brett doesn't want to get short changed) lakes and two rivers/streams (the Raquette was WAY low this morning and we had to walk the canoe through most of the knee high rapids). We are currently resuppling in Long Lake before we go into the most remote section of the NFCT in NY (three days; no roads, no people, no worries). The black flies are [View Full Entry]

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So in preparation for the Northern Forest Canoe Trail (which I start on June 1) my friend Tom O'Donnell and I took my uncle John's canoe out for a nice outing along the Sebasticook, we put in a couple of miles after the damn and started our way towards the very lazy, very windy, very wide Sebasticook river. The black fly hatch was pretty bad that day and I actually ended up wearing a head net to keep them from devouring my face. But what can you expect in late May in the middle of bug season. The trip is pretty [View Full Entry]

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Here is a short entry to let you know what I did on my birthday! I attended Montana States American Indian Council (AIC) Pow Wow and had a rip roaring good time. It was nice to get a chance to see a bunch of people one last time before I left the state, eat some delicious fry bread, and see some amazing dancing and drumming. Little did I know that the head advisor of the AIC had something special planned for me on Saturday night. That evening they honored me with a dance, a song, a bunch of gifts (including a [View Full Entry]

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This last weekend a couple of friends and myself went on a nice 30 mile paddle down the Big Hole river in western Montana, just south of Butte. We put in at Brown's Bridge and just rode down the wide bloated Big Hole to the High Road fishing access by Twin Bridges. The weather was beautiful, which was a good change from the weather in Bozeman which seems to have trapped small pockets of winter every week or so that come and dump down onto the Gallatin Valley. If you are into birds, this place is amazing. We saw at least [View Full Entry]

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I had the most amazing week. First and foremost, I used my passport for the first time ever! Pretty spectacular. I had a job interview at the the Island School for the whole week of April 13th to April 19th and it was a very positive experience and I am pretty sure there is no other secondary education institute quite like it (if anyone thinks that there is please let me know). The Location and Getting There The school is located on the lower part of Eleuthera about five miles south of the settlement Deep Creek (Google Earth will show you [View Full Entry]

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Now compared to my last years spring break (see the following entries here, here, here, and [url=http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arizona/Grand-Canyon-National-Park/blog-163731.html]here). This one was fairly mild in terms of mileage, but not in terms of excitement. Before we embark on this tale of misch [View Full Entry]

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One thing that the west has that the east seems to be lacking is these remote mountain forest service cabins you can rent for yourself for a night or two at the cheap cheap price of thirty five dollars a night. I know some of you will argue that the AMC huts fill that purpose, but the NFS cabins are a bit different. For one, they are not manned by anyone and are owned in the public domain, not by an organization (AMC is the Appalachian Money, I mean Mountain Club). Most of these cabins were built in the 1930's by [View Full Entry]

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My friend Michael Sulock and I took a weekend trip out to Seattle to see the sites and go to my friend Mike Daisey's show Monopoly at the Capital Hills Arts Center. This blog entry is more a review of the Hostel we stayed at then a synopsis of events of that weekend, which were a blast at Pike's Market and the Aquarium and the theater. The Green Tortoise Hostel is located on Pike Street between first and second avenue. It's location is optimum for anyone who wants to be near the water and the market as it is a two [View Full Entry]

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It is official. I have passed my Master's Comprehensive Exams and can now be called Master Luke. I took my Topology exam on Monday and my Probability/Mathematical Statistics and Dynamical Systems exams on Friday. I found out today I passed all three! Now all I have to do is finish up some course work and call it good. Many thanks to all the good wishes I received. Now I'm off to Seattle for the weekend to see my friend Mike's monologue "Monopoly" and check out the Seattle Aquarium and the [url=htt [View Full Entry]

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