After heading east and being nonplussed with the climbing and wilderness opportunities, we decided to take things as face value and appreciate the various aspects of each locale we visited. We appreciated basically everything east of South Dakota as quickly as possible, taking pictures from the car, not stopping to see much other than a few stops at various relatives of ours along the way.

I would like to share with you all the account of my recent trip, so I will be blogging and posting pictures from the excursion which went from late June 08-November 08. I will be doing this in several installments--hopefully it will entertain and amuse.
Pre Departure Meditations

I have been Type one since 1998, when I was 16 years old. I had no idea how I was going to re-learn how to eat and behave, let alone where I would be ten years down the road. Now I am 26, married and I climb (up to 5.11) boulder to v4 and have spent months at a clip, hiking and climbing in various mountain ranges in North America.