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You remember when this was number one, 50 years ago! Jump to 1 minute into the video.

Ahh, a reminder of the good old days! Mammoths, giant sloths, ice sheets! And pointy sticks with stone tips. At least we had fire!

Vic you may want to get a copy of this book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598742965/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It is a very readable and comprehensive account of paleoclimates, foods, vegetation, water, animals and peoples.

Fantastic and wonderful trip report -- so far! And more to come! Thanks for sharing your explorations.

Carry on -- tell us more. Sounds like a great adventure with new friends, too!

We have a couple of Rick Bayless cookbooks. We made authentic (according to Rick) Mole five or six times -- it is a lot of work -- kind of a day long effort each time. We look forward to your after action report. Have a great time!

Necessity is indeed the mother of invention.

This is by far my favorite weather web site: https://www.windy.com/-Show---add-more-layers/overlays?temp,42.300,-95.903,5 You can do almost anything on it.

In Portland, today is 2 seconds shorter than yesterday. Tomorrow will be 2 seconds longer than today. Somewhere in between those two digital signals is an analog sweet spot marking the end of shortening days and the beginning of longer days - which should be at 1:48 pm - about 34 minutes from now.

My lovely wife will turn 70 this spring and I will do so in October. You give us hope that 70 is not such a strange and terrifying age. Thanks for sharing your fascinating adventures. Looking forward to the next installment!

I have this same thermostat. Proven on several occasions to be very worthwhile.

Yay for longer days! I guess I am fickle. Right now all I want is more daylight. In late July I can hardly wait for evening!

The die off may have occurred anyway, though at a much slower pace, as a natural warming and drying of climate coming out of the last ice age. Recent accelerated warming is likely to have increased the die offs. I suppose pinyon - juniper forests will replace the dead firs and Douglas firs. It...

Steve proves the old saying: "What is the best camera? The one you have with you." At least if it is in the right hands.

I do wonder how many of those brand new 4X4s never again venture off the paved roads after their first experience with getting stuck? In the 70's I worked for a federal agency (which will go unnamed) doing fieldwork in the southern Idaho boonies. One summer they hired a bunch of college...

We here in the city know how to do it right...

Very nice slot canyon shot!

Steve, yes that is at Ridgefield. My lovely wife is suggesting Vancouver Island, such as Barkley Sound. I am more of an inland lake kind of guy, so we will see how it works out. Thanks for the tip on the Oregon paddlers group. Tony

The lure of 60 degrees F and open, green country to wander in is hard to resist. I have a sister in Tucson -- with a new pool and hot tub in her backyard -- seems like a visit may be in order. It is incredibly liberating to escape the dark, wet, dreary days and hang out among the cacti, spikey...

Well, this weather has now pushed me into serious planning mode for the next two trips. Thinking of heading to the southern AZ border area first and then drifting north to return home. Second trip will be hauling our two wooden kayaks to some nice water in Washington and Idaho. We built them...

Steve, you live in a wildlife paradise. You and Mrs Steve made a great decision to move.

Has anyone ever finished filling their tank and then felt compelled to go into the store to buy something crappy to drink or eat? Or worse run in and applied for a credit card or some such thing after seeing the AD on the gas pump? Don't see how these TV pumps could be effective.

Nice shot Steve! Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

OK that got me laughing!

Ah yes. Don't know why but those 16 days seem interminable and then suddenly, the days are getting longer!