Enjoy your time off work, and more importantly get out there and hop some fences. We sure as hell will be.
The ChaseThe decision had been made earlier in the week. We were picking up stakes and moving west. The journey would take an arduous 5 days and we hoped we wouldn’t have to ford any rivers or die of dysentery. The vast distance which loomed meant [...] |
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Gargoyles!Every time the elevator winch motor kicked on below me I thought the door from the top floor was being opened and I’d soon be busted in the office building after hours by a cleaning lady. It had been 3 hours since the place closed [...] |
CircumventedI stood at the end of a short, dead-end alley just off Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Well dressed locals and tacky tourists alike passed as they plodded along the many high end stores that line North Michigan Avenue. As the flow of pedestrian traffic thinned momentarily [...] |
We’re not dead...not for lack of trying, though.We’ve just been keeping our heads down, working 9 to 5′s, and being boring. Until now… “Strong storm.” The words spelled out in white on a red band wrapped around the little date box on the weather forecast website, made [...] |
Forbidden FruitYou can not legislate or regulate morality. In most cases in fact banning an activity is likely to make people want to do it more. Remember when you started smoking? That shit tasted horrible and made you cough your lungs out. You kept doing it [...] |
Mr. Strauss’ MasterpieceThe gate clicked open to the sound of an electronic buzzer and we were moving. We had to get to the cable as quickly as possible. This morning was a long time coming. The bridge had been at the tippy top of my to-do list [...] |
Canis AdventurousIts not easy. Bringing a dog along on a cross-country adventure handicaps one’s climbing abilities and makes the pro-hobo lifestyle a bit more challenging. But we had an experimental solution in mind to help correct the former. A piece of equipment whose development had been [...] |