Podcast: First Solo Hike in California
Last Saturday, I went out for my first solo hike since I arrived here in South Lake Tahoe. Destination: Lake Margaret. Trail length: 5 miles. Difficulty: moderate. Elevation: 7735 feet. Temperature: 65-70 degrees. While teaching is my life, outdoor activity is one of the personal reasons why I sought to relocate to this part of […]
Goodbye H-Town
“I’m not walking away from here with a bunch of things I still need to declare…” -Bane On Saturday, I will depart Houston to pursue a new teaching position in South Lake Tahoe, California. Yes, I’m moving to the Sierra Nevada Mountains! While I lived in between three mountain ranges during my stint in Arizona, […]
Whenever possible, try repairing instead of replacement
There’s a good chance that a lot of what we own will one day end up in a landfill somewhere and take years to degrade (click here and here for tables on the amount of time). I’ve often wondered about all of the e-waste that we produce on an annual basis. What happens to the […]
