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Gadget bag

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It is fun to plan such a trip and it is fun to play with thing you can use for such a trip – so we naturally have a number of gadgets with us for good use and for fun. First of all I wanted a good computer, with a fairly large screen for picture viewing and editing with us. It needed a big screen, so a 17” would be a natural choice, but we also wanted something reasonably handy around the bus and other places. Since I had a Lenovo T60p at work, with a 15” wide screen, I ended up with the same one (well, a T61p), with the extra large battery, for the trip. We did also consider getting an extra large, external, hard disk for picture backup, but ended up with just using DVDs to have a copy of the images.

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Bryce Canyon Half Marathon

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The other day we started to look for races (runs) at the places we expect to be on our trip – thinking maybe we can find a 10k somewhere we could run while on the road. The first major city we are at is Denver .. nothing was found there, but just for fun we searched for all the smaller places as well and we found, to our suprise, a half marathon in Bryce Canyon. Now I’m the one who always says that you can always run a half marathon, but over the last 8-9 months I’ve run no more than once a week and I do not think I’ve run more than 7 miles (11km) - so no more than half the distance – and this one startes up in 7652ft (2332m)! Ok, granted it does drop with 1852ft (564m).

I’ve just registered us for the race – Sabine does not know yet, but I’m sure she will be very happy. They do not say anything about strollers, so we’ll just assume what is not forbitten directly is allowed and expect to be able to run with Felix. Training you would ask? I do not think we’ll be able to train, but we will have two really hard hikes in the weeks before, so let us hope this will prepare us for the run 🙂

Introducing roadtrip

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Some of you already know that we’ll be doing a roadtrip through the US this summer. Starting this July we’ll be traveling in our ’95 Roadtrek between many national parks, cities and other more or less random points of interest which we have selected over the last year. We have planned to travel for “about four months” with some fixed points and a lot of flexibility in our plans, but we do expect the trip to be about 13,000 miles / 21.000 km (or maybe 1000 gallons or 3800 liter of gas – you can pick your fuel price, but currently the US average price for a gallon of regular is $4.07).

 

We selected the point of interest by taking out a map of the US and started to make red crosses where we wanted to see things. This was interesting, and while we sure can see a lot in four months, it was still a too much to just go and see!! Most notable [for Martin] we dropped Alaska and Glaciers National Park as that would have been a lot more driving and even in four months you cannot see it all.

 We narrowed down the list to:

 

Supai · Grand Canyon · Zion · Bryce · Capitol Reef · Mesa Verde · Black Canyon · Great Sand Dunes · Pike’s Peek · Denver · Rocky Mountain · Grand Teaton · Yellowstone · Mt. Rushmore · Des Moins · Chicago · Cleveland · Niagara Falls · Boston ·Cape Cod · New York · Washington DC · Blue Ridge Parkway · Charleston · Savannah · Miami · Key West · Biscayne · Everglades · Disney World · Panama City · New Orleans · Austin · Big Bend · White Sands · Saguaro

 

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