The Unofficial Tech of the 2012 Graduation Road Trip
As with my kayak trips, we’ll be tracking hikes and walking with the Garmin eTrex 20. The Garmin Basecamp software will handle editing the GPS track to remove the crap that shows up because I forget to turn it off or reset the track before starting. Basecamp will...
Amazon.com–The Unofficial Place to Buy Stuff of the 2012 Graduation Road Trip
Amazon could almost be an official sponsor. As an Amazon Affiliate, Amazon gives us a percentage of anything purchased through links from this site. We’re purchasing most of the new items for this trip from Amazon and are using CamelCamelCamel.com to watch Amazon’s...
Toyota Prius–The Unofficial Car of the 2012 Graduation Road Trip
http://www.toyota.com/prius-hybrid/trims-prices.html Obviously the car that started this insanity is the most important piece of equipment. Toyota should definitely get on-board with sponsoring this trip. MapQuest is currently estimating the fuel costs at around...
Corporate Sponsors
Being an inveterate capitalist, I’ve decided to open the Jackson 2012 Graduation Road Trip up to corporate sponsors. Sadly, I don’t have any actual connections to get the sponsorships up front, so this’ll be on spec. Over the course of the next twenty or so days...
This may be a bit insane
In April I bought a Prius. This, in and of itself, likely isn’t cause to question my mental health, but what it’s led to this summer may indicate that I have, indeed, gone batcrap-crazy. See, for several years, I’ve been driving a V8 Mountaineer that averages 16...
Afternoon on the Wekiva
An afternoon paddle on the Wekiva today, but no pictures or GPS due to battery issues. Those should be resolved before my next paddle, though. I started at Wekiva Springs State Park and turned onto Rock Springs Run to paddle upstream until the water became to...
Florida Keys
With a new car that gets much better mileage than my V8 Mountainer (even if a 16’ boat on 14’ Prius does look a bit silly), I can now worry more about where I want to paddle than how much it will cost me to get there and back. Since Orlando to Key Largo costs about...
Sunday Clinic
I made it through about half of today’s clinic before leaving the ice with an equipment problem. First we started off skating the face-off dots forward – two reps of that, then another two reps carrying a puck. With the puck, I concentrated on either keeping my...
Sunday Clinic
Today’s clinic started with a High-Low drill: Two skaters from the goal-line along either side. Take the puck around cones set on the face-off dots – either far or near, depending on which side you’re starting from – then into the zone for a shot. We ran this...
Game 2
So game number two for me, after skipping last week due to taking an ass to the groin. Even strength teams tonight and we lost 3-4 in overtime. I wasn’t on the ice for any goals against and was out there for one of our goals, so I feel better about my...