I travel for a lot of reasons. I love older places rich in history, but every time I get my fill of museums, castles, old pubs etc, it always comes down to what the people who live there are like which sparks my memories of the trip itself.
I applied for a visa and traveled to China to see if the Cormorant fishermen were still out there doing what they had always done historically now that newer technologies were available.

They were very old, but top my delight were still there.That was AMAZING..but I came home with an unexpected favorite memory.. It was there vitality of the older generation and their appoach to life, fitness, health and community..This short little video can help explain bette,. I hope.

There is a lot of junk at Harbor Freight, but are some things at that are too good to pass up. The 100 watt panels range from @$100 - 140 depending of sales, deals promos etc..but a 100 watt panel pulling 97 watts is worth mentioning.
Along with the class of Predator generators, this to me at least is a great buy

Anomalies of nature~I was luck enough to look out my kitchen window at the right time

Nature delivers truth, beauty, pain and ultimately the best medicine personally i can find..
i would not suggest immersing yourself into it if you are used to getting what your way and the echo chamber around you is afraid to be real with you. Nature is the last place to go to if you are used to dictating the outcome to just about anything..You work with her or suffer big time. it's as honest as it gets today in 2022
So it was a no brainer to build an off grid cabin outside west Yellowstone, to give myself breaks from the tangled mess the rest of life delivers and a reasonable chance to make sense of it all

A long time a go, someone I had deeply connected with sent me this poem.
She lived on the other side of the World and was sort of a mystery but we found common ground with the some of the work I did with wolves and nature in general.
I opened this letter many years later an re-read it and it suddenly had more meaning to me and the idea popped into my head to produce a short video commemorating the words, our virtual friendship (even though I have lost touch a while back) and to those people in my life who have impacted me deeply, even though our paths may have only crossed in a blink of an eye
All photos, vids and even the artwork in authored by me. The voices are of those I have meet all over the World and their names and faces will not be shown..

pretty much each starts and ends the same way each day up here and Idaho. A time to look forward and remember all the things that I am so blessed to have. Coffee in the morning up here with the animals Is a ritual I always look forward to and appreciate.