from rscottjones

I’m currently consolidating some of my blogging platforms, and here’s something that I brought back over to my main site tonight:

Two Men in a McDonald’s in Small Town America

I saw a similar scene last weekend when we gassed up at a truck stop that houses a Subway…

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. –Mary Oliver

Via: Instructions for Living an Adventurous Life, which also offers this insight:

Writing is a tool for noticing. It’s acknowledging that there’s an adventure out there, and you, the writer, are living it.

Jamie Thingelstad on Blogging as a Gift:

Instead, think about the collection of writing, over weeks and years, as a body of work. It is a body of work that you are constantly adding to. Growing and improving. The individual post is but one breath. It comes and goes. But over the course of time this adds up. It is the cumulative action that creates something truly great.

But who is your audience? Who is this for? You. Yourself. Your family. Your friends. Your friend’s friends. Your neighborhood. And they can have it whenever they want. As a gift. A gift from you to them. Not a gift to be measured in engagement, but instead as a body of work. A gift to the web, which is a gift to people.

In an extremely rare event, I managed to post about our weekend adventure, complete with photos. Huzzah!

→ A weekend of questing in Cottonwood

Here’s a simple website that lists places you can find a public place to take a shower—a useful utility for camping road trips.

I’m not a baseball fan, but many of my friends are, so I thought I’d share this simple site that @matt@mattlangford.com built to display the active rosters of each team: baseballrostercheck.com.

#SilentSunday #the100pics

The surprise of a cool and steady breeze emanating from the vault toilet is equal parts refreshing and alarming.

Made it to the campground for sunset (Jen rarely gets to see our campsite before dark!), which is also a new state park for her. And then it’s off for dinner at a brewery that we have both needed to mark off. Looking forward to a couple nights away, especially after today’s union news.

I finally pulled the trigger on Kirby, likely using the Zero One theme to help build.

I think it’ll be a solid replacement for my GoQuesting site (built in Notion, served via Super, but always a bit broken), especially since I can export all 1500+ quest pages in markdown.

#FootPathFriday #the100pics

Has anyone used Routes Car Rental? I’ve never heard of them, but their rates for a rental out of ORD are nearly 1/3 of even companies like Fox. 🧐 I see they have a mileage limit and take a larger than normal deposit, but…hoping someone has some experience to relate before we book.

Helping to rescue two tourists stuck in the mud on the “highway” to the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana. #the100pics

Botswana #the100pics

Rooftop views #the100pics

#TentViewTuesday

#TentViewTuesday

Hmm…I’m inching closer and closer to giving Kirby a shot. Most pressingly, I need a better solution for GoQuesting, my directory of 1500+ travel quests you can adopt. I built it in Notion using database views and serve via Super, but things are broken—again—and I’ve never quite been happy there.

#MountainMonday