ku # 474 ~ things with hooves and thinking out loud
Friday, June 8, 2007 at 09:26AM 
Elk and Scottish Highland cattle • click to embiggenNo luck yesterday finding any referents for pigs - plenty of elk, Scottish Highland cattle, alpacas and assorted other animal oddities (including my favorite - exotic chickens), but no pigs.
re: thinking - I am re-reading An Adirondack Passage, The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp by Christine Jerome. The book is about a modern-day (1990) redo by Ms. Jerome of the 1883 trans-Adirondack solo canoe trip of Nessmuk, aka George Washington Sears. She follows a 180 mile route that very closely approximates that traveled by Nessmuk. In the book, Ms. Jerome quotes many passages from Nessmuk's writings about his voyage as she seeks out the same locations and places that he visited in 1883.
I am re-reading this book because I am seriously considering the same trip this summer. The fact that Nessmuk did it at the same age as I am now (forever younger than springtime) is an interesting incentive. The trip has been under consideration by me and the wife for a couple of years, but we never seem to be able to find the time to do it together, but the more I think about it, the more I think that I, like Nessmuk, should go it alone. Maybe the wife can join me for a few legs of the trip, which would be very nice.
The trip is really an interesting one because it slices diagonally, lower SW to upper NE, across the heart of the park. The route traverses stretches of wilderness and human habitation, which affords the opportunity to spend nights out under the stars together with nights on a featherbed in a 4-star lodge. Likewise with dining - cooking on the lightweight camp stove or dining at a lakeside eatery (4-star to diner).
I think that this something I just have to do, and my goal is to produce a lavishly illustrated book (and maybe a documentary film [video]).
BTW, since the route touches civilization nearly everyday (if I want it to), I can take my laptop along for the ride and use it to post almost daily updates - pix and text - along the way.
Reader Comments (1)
When are you going? How long does it take?
Anything I should worry about work-wise?
Oh, and have fun.