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Your pictures are fantastic! I love the random details you managed to capture ~ I hope to shoot pictures like that someday.

Hey! I'm actually home in Seattle so if you want to work on a project, or want assistance on anything- let me know.

Hey! I'm actually home in Seattle so if you want to work on a project, or want assistance on anything- let me know.

A Seattle blog sounds like a fantastic idea!!!

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Bah to the blogosphere... I'm simply afraid that there isn't much worth commenting on the times of exam prep. I would probably end up writing down some mush as ill-conceived as Slim Shady's 'Stan'. Naye mind. Thanks very much for the add and the note. I'll consider blogging for the future.

Lots of love.

Joshua,

This 'country that seems boiling over and bursting at the seams with division and vision'-

I felt 'pensive' after reading that. In a good way. Pensive like when the song switches to a minor key. When everything seems more important somehow but not quite as funny. It's hard to be funny in a minor key.

Certain landscapes / terrains have always had that effect on me. The Badlands, for example, or the 4 corners region. The High Desert and mesa-lands that you're passing through right now.

You're in Ed Abbey country, now that I think of it. Ever read any Ed? A deeply neglected literary curmudgeon and hellman of the deep south transplanted to the canyonlands out west. When he was dying he had his friends break him out of the hospital and then, when he finally passed, bury him 'illegally' high up in some hidden canyon. Then they all ate roasted corn and drank beer.

It's early my friend. 6:50 a.m. Still into the first sips of coffee and thoughts not yet clear. Early for this country too, the one you describe as having 'seen civilization gather it wits and then go mad.'

Give it a few more thousand years and we might gather our wits again.

And it occurs to me now that that's part of the minor key thing as well that hits you out in the canyonlands. You can see those layers of rocks and cooled magma like a picture of 60 million years right and how the wind just keeps passing through sound all hollow and dry and serious. Here everything's clouded and filled in. Treed and mossy.

Actually looks like sunshine this morning though in the emerald city.

To your questions (Where are we going?
What do we want?) I'll just add one more as my 'answer'-- where are you going next?

david

I think I may climb Mt. Adams while your road tripping, I was going to to see if Jaymie was game. I think we should do Mt. Baker in May, that way we can visit Bekah while she is still in school. Or Mt. Stuart/Lake Ingels, which Josie and Bridget could come along for part of it.

60 miles, 15 off trail, 6-7 days from North Fork to the hoh trail head... :)

You're welcome! Glad you're back on Matador! Mexico is amazing--just spent this week in Oaxaca, up in the mountains, interviewing indigenous weavers, candle makers, and revolutionaries, eating massive tortillas the size of a trashcan lid, and eating salsa de chorizo in an outdoor hut... the thought of which is making me hungry right now! ;)

Planning to travel to Viet Nam and Cambodia early next year. Really interested in Ha Long Bay and Angor Wat. Hope you don't mind if I pick your brain in the upcoming months.

I'm Vietnamese, born in U.S. and this will be first time visiting, so I'm super excited. Fluent in conversational Vietnamese, so crossing my fingers this will help.

Thanks!

hi josh
nice its very nice keep it up

have a great day!!

much care
jolina

hey girl!

Great pictures of Spain by the way! Do you have any travel plans you are looking forward to? I am summiting Mt. St. Helens at the end of this month. I will have pictures up and a blog to read after that.

Check out my youtube show at www.youtube.com/expeditionlife

have a great day!

is your name even Josh by the way? or just plain old J. Ben?

Josh, you remind me of that Kerouac quote from On the Road, about the people who burn, burn, burn like fabulous Roman candles across the sky until you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Aww..

or however that goes...anyway - where did your crazy feet take you after Viet Nam? Any more articles on the way?

Fantastic blogs. The staff here can't stop reading them. Keep em coming.