Meet Stefanie

I've been friends with Stefanie for about ten years now. We met on the interwebz back in the Myspace days. When we met we both had the same exact kind of car. A Mazda P5. Hers is yellow, and mine was black. We also share the same birthday! 

Stef has the rare fortune to live a few months out of the year in Yellowstone National Park with her fiance', Coty. I really enjoy reading her updates! Her articles are a lot of fun. If you want to know what it's like to live in Yellowstone, check out her HubPages at http://stefa.hubpages.com/, or her blog at http://juststefsluck.blogspot.com/. She hasn't posted on her blog since last November, but there's still some good reading and pictures to check out. You can also follow her on Twitter @GrovesTravels. Enjoy!

Day Three 5-30-12 and Sore Left Foot

Day three was pretty good. Details in the pics. I ended up having to get a ride to my grandparent's house in Reno. I didn't want to cheat on this walk, but my left foot is giving me serious problems due to the road construction surface I had to walk on during the first day. I'm going to hang out here for as long as it takes, hopefully only til early next week. I absolutely do not want to have to go back home for several weeks or whatever to heal this up, and then have to start over again. Luckily my aunts 'n grandparents are gracious hosts, and I'll be able to catch some Giants games! Here's a video and a bunch of pics of Day Three, enjoy!

Day Two 5-29-12

My second day didn't go as planned, but that's alright. I'm sure that's gonna happen more often than not on this trip. Decent hotel room with shitty neighbor...

My room at the Days Inn (that's Daze In, if yer in a fucked off Nic Cage film...

My room if I was having a hooker over for dinner.

Day One 5-28-12

Well here it is folks. My first day walking to Seattle. The pics and video tell the story. Enjoy!

Right before I left. Saying goodbye to my dog Rocky.

Change of Plans

I've decided not to backpack to Seattle. Instead, I'm gonna use a CART! 

This is the Booyah "Swivel" 3in1 Double Baby Bicycle Bike Trailer & Jogger Red. 
I wrote a review on amazon.com if you want more details on the cart. 

Evening Thunderstorm May 15, 2012

Well there was finally something worth taking pictures of yesterday with my DSLR camera. A thunderstorm rolled through early in the evening, just as the sun was setting. I'm glad to see that I'm getting closer to being able to get the color saturation that I like, but I still have A LOT to learn. Especially with focus and composition. Although these are pretty colorful, they still don't "pop" like I would like them to. I could probably fool around with them in Photoshop, but I'm not really sure what to do or how to do it, or know when it's appropriate. Any suggestions, anyone? These were all taken on full manual, at ISO 200 between about f4 and f8, and the shutter speed was set around 1/80. And as usual, I flipped back and forth between various white balance settings and a couple of other things in the camera. I'm sure the lens I have is probably not ideal for landscape pics. It seems best suited for close up portraits and whatnot, but it's all I got for now. Enjoy! 

The American Dream is Dead and We are Attending the Wake

This post is for those of you that don't know me very well, if at all. I'm sure I'll fail miserably at explaining myself, but I think it's important to put my backpacking trip into context by telling you a bit about myself. Listen to the music in the video while you read...