Kim and I just registered for two cars to participate in next summer’s Mongol Rally! Starting around some time late last year we knew that we wanted our next big trip to be Mongolia, but when we started planning we had no idea what we…
no commentWoke up at the crack of dawn this morning and left Salt Lake City, destination: Home (Seattle). Fourteen and a half hours later we pulled into our driveway. About half way through the drive Kim offered to relieve me, and I was still feeling pretty…
no commentBaatar Hero is a team of six intrepid adventurers from Seattle, embarking on the Mongol Rally in July 2010. The Mongol Rally is an annual 10,000 mile drive from London, England to Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia whose participants raise money for charity as they travel unmapped…
no commentWe shouldn’t have expected less than a wedding ceremony on a stage from two entertainers. My cousin, a professional magician, was married at the Wool Warehouse in Albuquerque where we had a great time at the reception afterward. Congrats Danny & Stacey! The following morning…
no commentWe are staying in the Bucky O’Neill cabin on the south rim… Not bad — mobile mail sent via phone http://roam.autarken.net
no commentGallup, NM On our way to Meteor Crater and then the Grand Canyon — mobile mail sent via phone http://roam.autarken.net
no commentI didn’t really need the alarm set for the crack of dawn to wake me up on Thursday morning. The temperature had dropped over night in Yellowstone. The cabin was a sauna when we went to bed, so I had cracked open the window to…
no commentI recently picked up a Visiontac GPS data logger, primarily to geotag my photos. But it came with some cool tools which allow me to create maps of my track in Google Earth. If you have the Google Earth browser plugin, you can see these…
no commentThere was a twilight zone moment early this morning when we stopped at the 3rd identical Montana rest stop after several hundred miles of identical stretches of road, when I wondered if we were actually making progress, or just rolling along a treadmill in the…
no commentOld Faithful Originally uploaded by autarken Perfect timing… We walked up and it started erupting for us like it was waiting. More (better) pics from other camera coming later… — mobile mail sent via phone roam.autarken.net
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