Monthly Archives: June 2008

Couch-surfing

Posted on June 29, 2008 by admin

I may have had a revelation. I recently joined couchsurfing.com (much to Ennie's utter dismay) on a whim. If nothing else it'll give me some impetus to keep the house clean. The point of “couch surfing” is to, essentially, crash … Continue reading →

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Business cards and phone numbers

Posted on June 29, 2008 by admin

I think I have finished the design for some cards I’ll be handing out when we’re on our trip. This is a full-bleed design, so that’s why the margins seem so big. They’ll be cut off. (Yes, our name and … Continue reading →

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This is actually happening

Posted on June 29, 2008 by admin

I’m sitting here at 2 in the morning. I can’t go to sleep. It just dawned on me that this is actually happening. The thing that triggered it is looking at the shipping options for the business cards I’m getting … Continue reading →

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Camping information found

Posted on June 28, 2008 by admin

I was looking around some more for something to load into my Garmin Zumo that’ll help me find camp grounds and I think I might have found it. I was all ready to do something myself (see the previous post), … Continue reading →

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The mother-lode of camping info goodness!

Posted on June 26, 2008 by admin

I think I found what I was looking for. The government database of all of their camping info! Now all I have to do is write something to parse through 24 gig of XML and spit out a GPX of … Continue reading →

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Booked!

Posted on June 25, 2008 by George Burgyan

It’s official folks. I booked my return flight from Anchorage to Cleveland! Sunday, August 3, 2008 Depart Anchorage 1:38 a.m. Arrive Phoenix 8:15 a.m. Depart Phoenix 11:00 a.m. Arrive Cleveland 5:54 p.m. Total travel time 12 hr 16 mn image … Continue reading →

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Route – Part 3

Posted on June 24, 2008 by admin
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WHY AM I DOING THIS ? ? ?

Posted on June 23, 2008 by George Burgyan
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12301 Miles – all set

Posted on June 22, 2008 by admin

Over the past couple days I did the 12000-mile service on my bike. Starting off with the valve adjust on Wednesday night, which went nice and east. The right-side intake was still spot on. The exhaust was a few thousandths … Continue reading →

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Weather last Saturday night

Posted on June 16, 2008 by admin

Here’s what the National Weather Service had to say about the weather when we were camping: We were a bit west from Butler. So we were in the low 50s. The tent was still vented and we weren’t in any … Continue reading →

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