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New Mississippi River photos

Man, you never know what you’ll find when cleaning out old files. I ran across these photos and scanned them yesterday. Took them on a disposable camera in the first few days. Man, we had NO idea what we were getting into!

Roanoke River Kayaking Photos

Here’s the photo set from our Roanoke River paddling trip over New Year’s. It was a wee bit brisk! Podcast coming up shortly.

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Neuse River Expedition Photos

Here’s a sample of some of the 700 photos I took while paddling down the Neuse River. With everything being digital these days, it’s waaaaaaaay too easy to get photo-happy, but it beats running out of film. I remember allocating myself one roll a week when I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2000.

More Pictures from the Neuse River Expedition

Made it to Kinston about 1pm today (Wednesday, Sept 2.) My 7:1 days to shower ratio was getting the best of me, but I'm squeaky-clean now that I've had a shower at the Neuseway Campground right on the river. Staying there tonight, then pushing off first thing in the morning for the final 50 miles [...]

Sunrise on the Neuse River

Mornin’ folks. It’s a beautiful day today.

-John

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Quick Photos From the Neuse River Expedition

Just a few real quick photos while I have a little cell phone signal. I’ll be doing the real updates on Monday from Goldsboro. This river is incredible!

–John

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A few quick Neuse River Pictures

I’ve barely got a cell signal, but hopefully these will make it out. I’ll post a proper podcast when I get Goldsboro on Monday.

 Man, this river is just incredible.

 Take care,

 -John http://www.sourcetosea.net

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Intermittent Updates until Goldsboro

I hope everyone is doing well. The Neuse had been great so far and I’m finally getting into the groove of the trip. Had a big ole’ thunderstorm yesterday, so things are pretty juicy for now.

I’m currently playing this silly game called “Trying to Dry Stuff on the Deck of the Kayak while Paddling.” Yeah, [...]

Appalachian Trail Photo of the Month Great Smoky Mountains

 

This was taken about halfway into the Great Smoky Mountains, around December 15, 2005.  From reading my journal, I was at least a month behind schedule at this point, and was just looking forward to finishing up at Springer Mountain in Georgia. The weather had other ideas. It had been cold and rainy for the [...]

Mississippi River Photo of the Month

This is one of my favorite photos of the trip. It was taken 60 days into the journey, somewhere in between Memphis and Vicksburg, on July 14, 2005. The weather was scorching, we were getting worn down, and we’d just taken a few days off to dodge Hurricane Dennis. By this point, we still had [...]

New Pictures from the Applachian Trail and Mississippi River

OK, so I’m kind of a slacker when it comes to getting disposable cameras back to the photo lab. Finally took a handful of these things in and man, there were some cool photos on them!

Trail Days, 2003

Trail Days, 2003, Ox and Johnny Swank (John- younger and no beard)

Getting Soaked Outside of Minneapolis

Floodgates Opening

St. Anthony’s [...]

Picasa vs. Flickr for Adventure Travel

I’m in a quandry, and I’d love some advice concerning photo hosting. Right now I’m using a Flickr Pro account ($25/yr) to host our photos, but I’m not crazy about it to be honest. It plays OK with Wordpress, but I hate the album plugin I’m using and have no time to sett up another [...]

Straw bale Yurt photos

I’ve already had a few folks emailing for more photos. Here’s what I had already scanned, and I’ll try to dig a few more up to post later.

By the way, you can go straight to this Picasa Album Page if you’d like.

Biking from Greensboro to Raleigh with an Amtrak Twist

Just wanted to post a couple of quick pictures from last weekend. Jess and I rode our bikes down to the train station, took the Amtrak from Raleigh, then meandered about 100 miles back to our front door. Got to visit with family and friends, saw a great little  parade in Millsboro, took in [...]

Appalachain Trail Thru-hike Photos

Here’s a set of photo’s from my southbound thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail (AT) in 2000. This hike totalled about 2,165 miles from July 1, 2000 through January 11, 2001.