by Megan Durham | Oct 13, 2011
Due to some monetary issues this month I found myself bike-commuting to work in earnest. I figured that I just hiked the Grand Canyon, biking shouldn’t be any problem at all. Right? Well… it’s a little different. The muscles I...
by Megan Durham | Oct 11, 2011
Sometimes rambling about on the internet can suddenly turn into a trapdoor-like sliding descent into troubling oubliettes, usually involving some sort of conspiracy perpetrated upon the common man by an all-powerful secret cabal. Who the cabal is, precisely, changes...
by Megan Durham | Oct 7, 2011
A lot of time has passed since the birth of photography. After the advent of Kodak’s Brownie camera photography became part of the everyday realm, something that anyone could learn and afford to do. And as technology advanced so too did image...
by Megan Durham | Oct 6, 2011
Beginning Day Four Given our early ending to our hike the day before we got a start even earlier than we had on the other three days. Although maybe that was just because all of us knew the drill by now and could pack up the tents half asleep- or at least I...
by Megan Durham | Oct 5, 2011
To any modern viewer it seems obvious that the majority of these pictures are probably fake. But how do you fake a picture without the help of Photoshop?Well it turns out the equivalent of a tutorial was included in Sir David Brewster’s 1856 book The...
by Megan Durham | Oct 5, 2011
Waking up at Phantom Ranch didn’t bring any surprises of the reptile variety, although we did find that the ring tails were significantly more agile than we gave them credit for. The third day dawned beautiful, as always. Despite the fact that dad’s pack...
by Megan Durham | Oct 1, 2011
Waking up after my first night on a backpacking mattress was a little interesting. I’m not talking about the stiffness in the legs or back, although there was a little of that. Neither am I talking about the beautiful scenery. Although there was a...
by Megan Durham | Sep 29, 2011
Due to the drive on the first day we got started on the trail around 8:00. Little did we know that this would be the latest that we would set out for the rest of the trip. I knelt down so we could see the picture behind us, but it turned out to be harder than I...
by Megan Durham | Sep 29, 2011
Well I’m back in the mist-drenched northlands, giant bag in tow and- as of yet- still unpacked. It was a bit sad to come back to a chill in the air and the morning commute, but at the same time it’s nice to spend the night in a bed again. But how was...
by Megan Durham | Sep 27, 2011
Yesterday while working on my blog I was all set up for an article on theLost Cosmonauts. It’s a pretty interesting story, and one that makesperfect sense given what a counselor told me at the Huntsville Space Center.*The idea is that back when the USand...
by Megan Durham | Sep 19, 2011
No updates this week, although I suggest that you check out mysteryseeker.com or 9gag.com to keep you suitably entertained in the mean time.See you next week… if I live through this!
by Megan Durham | Sep 19, 2011
So no updates this week! If only because it is hard to type and hike at the same time to say nothing of the lack of service. I’ll let you know all about it next week… assuming I live through the experience.
by Megan Durham | Sep 15, 2011
I don’t quite know if I’m ready for the Grand Canyon, but I think I’m as ready as I’m going to be. The weird thing is how my body is reacting to all of the stair climbing, weight carrying, and long distance walking that I’ve been...
by Megan Durham | Sep 14, 2011
How much truth is there to this story? It’s hard to be sure. Most of the documented evidence comes from a diary written by Richard Bell. Richard wrote the diary more than a quarter of a century after the events occurred, and he was only six at...
by Megan Durham | Sep 13, 2011
When you first come across references to the Bell Witch it is easy to confuse it with a certain shaky-cam movie from the nineties. That is, until you look at the details. Here is a legend from the frontier, back when Tennessee was on the edge of the unsettled...
