Actually recorded on 3/22/6
I am at my best and worst. I have the tent set up magazine perfect. I have the proper fire going. I'm pretty sure (except maybe my feet) that I'm layered properly for the temp to drop in the 20's. I also have the best secluded campsite in this Tennessee State Park (Panther Creek in the Morristown, TN area). I have plenty of wood. I'm smokin' Greek cigarettes, not bad, especially for $1.21 a pack. Greek tobacco? Used to when I opened a pack of cigs I would pull out the first one with my teeth. Can't do that anymore. 723 pm.

In May, 1971 at the age of 26, forsaking career and marriage, left Charlotte, NC determined to drive to San Francisco, CA to seek new horizons, with a stopoff in Colorado to see an old friend in the Colorado Springs area and some relatives in the Ft. Collins area.

"Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.
I would look for hours at South America, or Africa
or Australia and lose myself in the glories of exploration.
At the time there were many blank spaces on the earth,
and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting
(but they all look that) I would put my finger on it
and say, When I grow up I will go there."

---Marlow In Heart of Darkness,
by Joseph Conrad

Books read since the creation of this Blog:
1) Blood Memory, Greg Iles, finished 2/26/6
2) Sharpe's Eagle, Bernard Cornwell, finished 3/2/6
3) The Broker, John Grisham, finished 3/6/6
4) Honeymoon with My Brother, a memoir, Franz Wisner, finished 3/12/6
5) Sharpe's Gold, Bernard Cornwell, finished 3/19/6
6) Angels & Demons, Dan Brown, finished 4/18/6
7) Frankenstein, Book One, Prodigal Son, Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson, finished 4/28/6
8) Gone For Good, Harlan Coben, finished 5/3/6
9) From The Corner Of His Eye, Dean Koontz, finished 5/16/6
10) The Key To Midnight, Dean Koontz, finished 6/1/6
11) The Door To December, Dean Koontz, finished 6/24/6
12) Dark Rivers of the Heart, Dean Koontz, finished 7/30/6
13) Icebound, Dean Koontz, finished 8/26/6
14) Shattered, Dean R. Koontz, finished 9/10/6
15) Cold Fire, Dean R. Koontz, finished 9/29/6
16) Velocity, Dean Koontz, finished 10/16/6
17) Night Chills, Dean R. Koontz, finished 11/19/6
18) The Husband, Dean Koontz, finished 12/24/6
19) Union Pacific, Winning the West Book III, Donald Clayton Porter, finished 12/26/6
20) Valley of Vanishing Men, Max Brand, finished 1/21/7

Finally!!!! Broke out of my physical rut. The wife and I and River, a dog, went for a walk on the Greenbelt. 2 miles with hill work. Now to get the daily habit back?