Blogs from North America - page 30

We continued our journey east from John Day to Wallowa mountains known as Little Switzerland 160 miles away. From John Day to Baker City 80 miles then La Grande 44 miles heading to Wallowa 36 miles. We set off at 10.00 arrived 4pm with a stop at Baker City for lunch. There is lots of history along this route connected with the great gold rush, the timber industry and the immigrants that helped shape this areas history. At John Day we visited Kam Wah Chung state museum and amazing historic time capsule capturing the lives of the Chinese community and their input into the gold rush. Two Chinese men unrelated became the main stays of the Chinese community. One was a Chinese doctor practising Chinese medicine the other an entrepreneur. Together they set up a community ... read more

Me & The iF3 I first found out about the International Functional Fitness Federation (iF3) in 2017 when they launched their organization dedicated to bringing the sport of Functional Fitness to the Olympic level, and held their first World Championships. There was a fundraiser and I pitched in. I didn't win the fan-wheel bike, but I was happy to help spread the word, and a seed was planted. In 2018, I decided to approach them about making a documentary. My friend James Fitzgerald at OPEX Fitness connected me to Gretchen Kittelberger, founder of the iF3, and we started talking. In 2019, the USA team brought me to Malmo, Sweden as their videographer and my documentary work for the iF3 began. I turned the footage from that trip into Reach For The Rings, my feature documentary about ... read more

We're playing catch up here. We are busy travelling or just having fun during the day to blog, sorry, and our night stops are in the middle of nowhere with no signal. Where have we been? All the fun outdoor places of course. If there's a hill we'll climb it of there's a trail we'll walk it. Oregon is an adults playground. We left Bend after a saunter along the Deschutes river walk, and a visit to Pilot Butte, 380 feet volcanic cone down town 1 mile hike up and down with 360 views across the Cascade mountains. Bend is very progressive, kinda hipster place with lots of micro breweries and independent coffee shops. Apparently its full of Californians who live here and work remotely. It is beautiful. Bend was originally a timber milling town with ... read more

Die schlechte Nachricht zuerst: wir haben keine Wölfe gesehen ;-) Und das war es auch schon mit den "schlechten" Nachrichten. Zunächst einmal haben wir sehr viel Sonnenschein, und mit Sonne sieht alles einfach viel schöner aus. Die Teton Range ist eine sehr schöne Bergkette mit immerhin 2 Viertausendern und einigen sehenswerten Canyons, in denen man prima wandern kann, außerdem ein paar hübschen Flüssen und Bächen sowie einigen Seen im Tal und weiter oben in den Bergen. Und dann die Tierwelt: das ist einfach phänomenal! Die Tiere scheinen diese Gegend genauso attraktiv zu finden wie wir. Gleich beim Reinfahren in den Park sind wir im ersten Stau durch kriminell parkende Autos - ein untrügliches Zeichen für Tiersichtungen. Und tatsächlich grast in großer Entfernung ein Grizzly auf einer Wiese vor einem Wäldchen, mit Fernglas gut zu beobachten. Juchhu, ... read more

We enjoyed out time in Hudson! We "moochdocked" on Family's driveway; thank you Adam & Jessica! May be one of the quietest places we have stayed and beautiful with lots of trees and privacy. Mike's sister Tamara was visiting them part of the time we were there. She was our tour guide to explore Stillwater, MN a charming river town across the St. Croix River from Hudson. We strolled the main street checking out the gift shops, bookstore, antique shops, and samples some ice cream. While visiting we had a driving tour of the twin cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Jessica was great to show us the sights. We stopped in to see Adam at work and had lunch from a food cart in the skyway. So awesome to have the elevated walkway to connect buildings ... read more