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[threemeninaboat]

randomdreams mom often relays stories of her crying because RandomDad, in the time before cell phones, was often back late returning from a trip and she figured he was dead in a ditch.

skazat left on a 2-3 day bike ride last Monday. Due to weather he's still out there. And back in the day you'd go hunt someone down if they had not returned on time.
I don't have to wonder where he is. I know exactly where he is. He has a Spot. A little GPS that sends out his location every 10 minutes. Every few hours it emails me saying, "I'm okay." (I suppose there's also a "come get me" button).

Tomorrow morning he will summit Mt Evans on a bike. Go skazat!
And I'll know when to get the corned bison going in the crock pot.

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[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

There he goes!
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0mYatYYJLCHPjG7OrxrpfHuvbl4aix5eG

Oh, he's doing Pikes Peak and Mt. Evans back to back. He's an animal.

They are totally worth it in lowering stress levels alone.

[basefinder.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's very cool! I showed it to Debbie when she came over -- she wants me to have one of those. :-)

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

They are that cool.

On his first Tour Divide the batteries had died for a few days and I freaked out. He called in saying they were expensive (he was running them for a month) and he didn't feel they were worth replacing. I said, "I will always pay for more spot batteries." He's kept them up ever since.