Plague!

The ARMY Rangers were famous for something called a “Ranger pause”. When they entered the woods or jungle on a mission, rather than just blundering forward, they would sit for 15 minutes or as long as it took for everyone to get their “pause”. No talking, moving, or messing with gear was allowed until everyone [...]

Back in the lower 48

After an exhausting 16 hour travel day, I arrived back in Kentucky with my father…both of us still in one piece. Mostly. Kentucky welcomed me with 100F weather and a humidity heat index of 104F. (40C for my metric friends). Quite a difference over the cool Alaskan 50F’s I left. When I stepped off the [...]