May 11, 2017
Month 1 on the river. Lake itasca to Minneapolis
seen from China
seen from Türkiye
seen from Syria
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Philippines
seen from Pakistan
seen from Türkiye
seen from Bulgaria
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Greece
seen from Türkiye
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
Month 1 on the river. Lake itasca to Minneapolis
Pain
Pain is a weird thing with such a great deal of variations. As I write this my feet hurt so bad I haven't slept in 3 days. Now the pain I am feeling has nothing to do with my Fabry (which is a burning in the toes and fingers, the only way I have ever been able to explain it is that it's like my blood is having trouble moving through my extremities and those lacking the blood are on fire waiting to be cooled off by the blood flow.) The pain I feel right now I can only assume is from basically giving myself a mild case of frostbite by paddling through multiple days of snow and then building a fire and thawing them out after hours of not being able to feel my feet. The joints feel like they are grinding together and the pads of each of my toes is somewhat numb to the touch with the feeling of pins and needles anytime they brush against anything like when I put them into a sock. For most of my life I have ignored pain. Anytime I felt like shit or was having problems due to Fabry I would drink some water, try and cool my body temperature and keep on going with my task at hand. I always felt like pain was a mental setback. When people say that some people have worse pain than others such as one person saying they have a headache and another person calling it a migraine, to me it has always been a matter of opinion. Everyone handles pain differently. I have been unlucky enough to know pain on a huge scale, from broken bones to my Fabry which has left me bed ridden at times. One thing I do know about pain though is that it is a temporary road block. I don't believe in taking pain killers even though with my condition I have had prescriptions to oxy codeine, because I know that at some point or another this will pass. That may just be me being hard headed but I grit my teeth and push past what I am feeling. The pain I have in my feet right is immense and I don't even want to walk but have to portage my canoe multiple times a day sometimes and I just do it slowly. I do what I can do and when I can't take it anymore I take a break. Next week I will hopefully be sleeping great and looking back at how dumb I was for letting my feet freeze up in the first place, and paddling in snow when I could have just been relaxing. I pushed the pace and now I'm paying the price. Live to fight another day.
just got a finger cramp working on "No Sweat". A finger cramp! Pathetic
Goodwin Project photo show. I want to do something like this with all the pictures I have. Handmade frames.
Every video so far!
http://vimeo.com/62051131 http://vimeo.com/63122730 http://vimeo.com/65121947 http://vimeo.com/67930875 http://vimeo.com/70466736
I love @thenorthface and my pack and sleeping bag both come from them, but it's wild that I can walk into one of their stores and have the sales people walk circles around me and ask all the other people in the store how they can help them and what are they looking for. But they still have the coolest stuff.
New Video!!
http://vimeo.com/67930875 Be the first to watch it. Repost!
Good Morning Texas
Had the opportunity to do an interview for an early morning abc TV show here in Dallas. While I was waiting in the studio I got to meet Graham Rahal and Justin Wilson! Awesome to meet some Indy car racers, wish I could take a few laps around the track in one. They are racing here in Dallas Saturday and I am going to go see it hopefully. Thanks to Carla and everyone else at Good Morning Texas for having me and giving me the chance to get my message out there.