Keep going to the gym and using Fitocracy to stay motivated ( Read more... )

This was the best part of Act of Valor (except for the part where the sniper shoots the guy off the dock, and the SEAL in the water catches him so that he doesn't make a splash...)

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect ( Read more... )

These are the SCA and SCA-related events I'm looking at doing in the next few months ( Read more... )

     We've all come out well at the end of the year, God be thanked, but Chloe has been having an especially good time of it!  She had her riding lessons at Free Spirit farms for several months.  She fell in love with a rescued horse named Angel.  Now that the weather has turned cold,  we've moved her over to tap and ballet lessons, which she takes ( Read more... )

Keep going to the gym and using Fitocracy to stay motivated ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I catch a plane.  It's Pamplona by Thursday, and rolling on the Camino by Saturday morning!  I am homesick already, but I have been planning this pilgrimage for seven years, and now it's here!  To the West, ever to the West.

Pilgrimage Itinerary ( Read more... )

On  the Santiago Pilgrimage: We'll be visiting the battlefields of Roncesvalles (Roland), Najera (The Black Prince vs. Bertrand du Guesclin), Clavijo (St. James), Pamplona (St. Ignatius), Viana (Cesare Borgia), the Bridge of the Honorable Passage (Suero), the headquarters of the VIIth Legion and the Knights of Santiago, the Atapuerca Caves, towns ( Read more... )

Chloe and I popped into the Crystal Grottoes Cavern attraction today.  The physical plant is kind of ghetto-tastic, but the tour, although $15 per person and only 30 minutes long, was pleasant and educational.  The formations are really quite pretty, and it was good to be back in a cave again. (It was Chloe's first!)  We only covered about 300 ( Read more... )

Rough draft of the 3-day hike coming April 15-17 ( Read more... )