I was completely turned around. The last (and final) time I hiked without a trail map was a few years ago on the Cross Timbers Trail on the Texas/Oklahoma border. The Cross Timbers Trail is a 14 mile long backpack-able trail along the shore of the (regionally) famous Lake Texoma. It’s a beautiful hike any…
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It’s cold out there… (“Okay campers, rise, and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cold out there…” “it’s cold out there every day.” “Of course it’s cold out there, what is this Miami Beach?” Ok – enough Bill Murray humor, back to the regular scheduled programming) And now that it’s colder, it’s time to…
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Before YouTube became a household name it was a video dating site. Yep, 👉️ that kind of video dating. The awkward, amateur, man-on-a-stool, cheesy backdrop, talking at the camera as though she were the woman of your dreams, trying to convince the world that you are attractive, video dating. YouTube was that. People who were looking to get…
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Do you know what it takes to be a hiker? All you have to do is start hiking! If you are hiking a flat, half-mile trail around a pond, you are a hiker. If you are climbing Mount Everest, you are a hiker. (And when your hike is finished, aren’t you always glad you did…
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1990’s Mel Gibson was hard to beat. As a middle-aged man, I can tell you this because I lived it. He was absolutely at the top of his game. We were still in the power band of the Lethal Weapon franchise, along with other thrillers like Ransom, the hilarious and epic western Maverick, and of…
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“Jenny has dysentery.” Oof. Sucks for Jenny. On the Oregon Trail (the actual trail, not the amazing two-tone computer game that consumed untold hours of my youth giving my classmates rural diseases), it was easy to follow the road. Particularly because it was several feet deep. So many thousands of wagons had traveled across the…
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Have you ever had “that one friend”? The one who can pick up a new hobby in about 5 minutes, and be better than you after a year of trying really hard? Sometimes it feels like the game of life comes easier to some than others. But that’s a lie. The truth is, nobody is…
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“She’s just not into you, dude.” It was right in front of my face the whole time, but my starry-eyed, rose-glassed self just couldn’t see it. Probably… because I didn’t want to. Sometimes we’re really good at seeing what we want to, and not seeing what we don’t want to see. Ever felt that way…
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The $4.99 rotisserie chicken at Costco is legendary. It is a wildly popular dinner-in-a-box that makes for a quick, hot meal. The chicken had been a loss leader for years, meaning that Costco lost money on that sale for the opportunity to get a customer in the door. They were fine losing 50 cents a…
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If you’ve ever flown in a commercial airliner, you are familiar with the pre-flight safety instructions. They’re the same for each of the more than 45,000 passenger flights per day in America. Seatbelts, no smoking, floatation devices, exit doorways – you know the drill. What always stands out to me in the routine is the…
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