Reposts from my Hey World blog
I reposted several posts from Hey World to my personal website.
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How to make driving across Texas more fun - a quick discussion of how a somewhat ridiculous new travel quest is making the boring parts of travel more fun.
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Friends for the sake of memories - re-examining some online friendships and choosing a path forward.
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I paid $100 for the privilege of travel today - taxing your own privilege.
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The last years of your life suck - a reminder of what your final years might look like.
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The only possible way to drive directly from Missouri to Kentucky - weird geography meets a weird quest.
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How can a digital camera from 1999 change your life? - purchases that change how you live.
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How many countries are there? - it’s more complicated than you might think.
Day 27: Surprise for challenges.micro.blog
This is Surprise Lake in Aniakchak National Monument, a collapsed caldera in remote Alaska that’s the least visited park unit in the country. I spent 5 days waiting for a short window to fly here via bush plane in 2019, so it’s a surprise that you made it!
Day 21 Mountains for challenges.micro.blog: “The Great One”
Day 18: Mood for challenges.micro.blog
Day 17: Transcendence for challenge.micro.blog.
This is the spot where the mutilated body of a young black boy, Emmett Till—whose crime was being black in rural Mississippi during Jim Crow—was dumped, an event that transcended a “simple” race murder and helped to launch the Civil Rights Movement.
I’m considering abandoning my general Mastodon account (I have another one that solely dedicated to travel/outdoor adventures) and moving everything to Micro.blog, where I’d also pull in my other fedi-posts and my blog posts from my primary website.
What drawbacks will I encounter?
Shot this from inside my tent in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in February.
Day 13: Cactus for challenges.micro.blog.
Day 13: Page (Arizona 😜), for challenges.micro.blog
Day 11: Sky for challenges.micro.blog
Day 10: Train for challenges.micro.blog - The most unique train car I’ve seen was this cut-out display at Steamtown NHS in Scranton, PA.
Question, friends: if you happen across a misplaced slice of crispy bacon on a random sidewalk in your town, does the 5 second apply to the moment it was originally dropped, or does the clock start when you first see it? Day 9 Crispy of challenges.micro.blog
Day 8: Prevention for challenges.micro.blog
Day 7: “wellbeing” of challenges.micro.blog
Day 6: “Windy” of challenges.micro.blog
When I think windy, I think of the summit of Mt Washington, where they chain down the roofs of buildings and the site of the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth: 231 mph.
Day 5: Serene of challenges.micro.blog
Here’s what it looks like, @amerpie.
Downright absurd: I still haven’t posted about it on my website!
There’s a multi-layered backstory to all of this. One part of it is that my wife had secretly organized several friends to fly to Alaska for my last park, and our Aniakchak visit nearly ruined it.
This is really going to add a wrinkle into those Visit Every Timezone quests! White House directs NASA to develop lunar time standard
