May 20, 2003
Oro Valley, Arizona, USA4:39pm. I'm on the web page for Turtle Island Preserve, an environmental education center and 1000 acre wildlife preserve near Boone, North Carolina, directed by Eustace Conway. The following is a little intro to Eustace taken from the web site:
He loves his mountain heritage, the ideals of self-sufficiency and thoughts such as, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." Collecting information for a book on the Appalachian Mountain culture, Eustace is as one would imagine, living it! He has built a complete historically accurate farmstead with 9 hand crafted log buildings using only materials harvested right there on site. He trained his own mules, horses, and bulls to pull logs, sleds, wagons and to plow the garden. He set the world record for coast to coast horse travel from the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean in 103 days! He went 800 miles across the Carolinas in 21 days. He loves using horse power saying, "horses can have babies, cars can't."
These funny characters are my sister Ivy's kids. The red line is a four pitch 5.9 called "Dos Hermanos" that I want to climb, but the sun is baking by 9am, heating up to 100 degrees everyday this week, so I don't think it is going to happen. I've hooked up with a cat named Zak who is taking me climbing Sunday high up on Mt. Lemmon where it is cooler.
Places to go...
The Internation Outdoor festival,
June 7-8, 2003, Busse Woods, Schaumburg, ILHope In Action-- HOPE Magazine's Premiere Conference
June 13-15, 2003, Babson College, Boston, MABurdock 2003 - A gathering for a free and sustainable future
July 22 to 29th, Starks, Maine.
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