2008/9 Freighter round the world
2008 Italy, Switzerland, Vatican
2007 Brazil Carnival
2007 Antarctica
2007 Argentina Iguazu Falls
2006 England, Ireland, Scotland
2005 Nepal Everest fly-by
2005 India Taj Mahal
2005 Egypt Pyramids, Sphinx
2004 China Great Wall
2004 Japan 14 trips
1999 Peru Machu Picchu
1998 Australia Ayers Rock
1966 Guam Mt. Lamlam
US adventures:
2009 Boston Lobster trip
2007 Southeast US Road-trip
2006 Trebuchet Events
2005 Idaho High-point
2005 Grand Canyon
2004 Alaska Cruise-tour
2003 California Hikes
2003 Northeast US Road-trip
2002 Southwest US Road-trip
2001 Hawaii tour & high point
2000 Northwest US Road-trip
1997 Freight Train Ride
1996 Grays Peak First 14k mountain
1991 Skydiving
1987 House construction adventure
Skiing
Other Hiking Links
Pages of Friends and Favorites:
Fishin' with Dave
George's Freighter BLOG
Hiker Bill
Bionic Dale
Star Fred Images
Library Thing
Hostelling International
Lenox Speaker Schedule
Dale Stenseth's Adventure Archives
Past Adventures!
2009
12/13/09 11:00 Egypt presentation at LCR.
12/5/09 Book signing, at Dunn Bros in Buffalo.
11/21/09 Cut down another tree for Laura, with only minor injury.
11/7/09 Presented Data and Information Best Practices at MN Futurists.
10/22 Edward Tufte seminar.
10/07 Lake Street walk to State Capitol.
9/24/09 Boston for a lobster weekend.
Summer 2009: Nine freighter presentations, 2 graduations, 3 weddings, & lunches.
My freighter book is in its 2nd printing.
I still have a pass on mowing the lawn.
Spring 2009:
5/12/09 Total hip replacement. Titanium, carbon steel, & cross-linked plastic.
Published my book, Freighter Odyssey.
3/09 Skied 5 times at Buck Hill.
2/21/2009 Finished my freighter trip! - I went around the world in 130 days, as a passenger on a freighter. Also see My Freighter BLOG.
2008
10/16/08 Began a freighter trip around the world.
Summer 2008 Two small consulting projects, Laura's house project, repair hail damage, volunteer work.
7/19/08 45 yr Class reunion!
5/23/2008 Scott's n-gauge train table.
5/18/2008 New York City: Mark graduated from NY Law School, cum laude.
4/20/2008
Italy, Switzerland, & Vatican tour.
4/5/08 Alternative energy and conservation presentation at Minnesota Futurists.
3/10/08 Skied at Buck Hill this morning!
3/4/08 Alternative energy and conservation presentation, Lenox Sr. Center.
2/9/08 Wiki page experiments.
1/24/08 6 week Stanford Arthritis course.
2007
12/16/2007: Antarctica presentation.
12/2007: Home energy experiments: Tested LED lamps. Expensive.
11/28/2007: Skied - Unexpected event.
October 26-28: NOO York City Central Park, MOMA, the Guggenheim, and a show on Broadway.
9/3/07: Renaissance Festival, first visit ever, Labor Day. Developed a web site for a friend. Consulting assignment in Edina, home projects, garden boxes, door refinishing, Laura's basement project. Bought a $68 power washer from Fleet Farm. Washed the truck, washed the car, sprayed soap on the spider mites! Also, developing new economic model. Quantify fund analysis process. Power-washed and painted the bell tower!
It's been awesome not having to contend with the bad airline this summer.
Researched possibility of a home solar power, grid-tied power system.
5/3/2007: Annual 'eating and looking' hike down Lake Street, to the Minnesota state capitol.
4/9-17/2007: Southeast road-trip at cherry blossom time. Final US quadrant. RRHF-Cleveland, Washington DC highpoint, Myrtle Beach, Hilton head, Savannah, Stone Mountain, and other interesting points along the way!
2/15/2007: Carnival in Rio de Janeiro! Since the Brazil visa for the Antarctica/Iguazu Falls trip was expensive, I decided to make more use of it.
1/21/2007: Antarctica, my 7th continent! - Antarctica, with an extension trip to Iguazu Falls in the jungle between Argentina and Brazil. A physical was required for Antarctica and malaria pills for Iguazu Falls and a visa for Brazil.
2006 November: The fall small-game relocation program. A neighbor was having problems with critters under her house. I'm not sure if a permit is required, so, hypothetically, the score was: Dale 6, Rabbits -2, Squirrels -4.
11/3/2006: First skiing of the season at Wild Mountain. Last skiing was 2/26/07 at Buck Hill.
10/30/2006: Tree trimming event and subsequent electrical service event.
2006 Summer & Fall: The Trebuchet events proved to be very entertaining in some unexpected ways.
7/24/2006: The cell phone was decommissioned!
2006 Spring: Finished writing an adventure-romance novel, that I had promised for Ann. Novella is probably a better word. Must have been ok. She read it start-to-finish without stopping.
6/1/2006: Annual pilgrimage and eating trek down Lake Street to the Minnesota State Capitol.
5/15/2006: Had planned a wine run to Trader Joe's in Illinois to replenish the '2 buck chuck', but that is no longer necessary, since they opened a store in St. Louis Park, MN!
5/11 to 5/26/2006: Toured England, Ireland, and Scotland.
2005-2006 SKI season!
8/2005 to 3/2006: Another
consulting assignment took me to Japan three more times, Massachusetts several times, and California twice!
8/24/2005: Hiked
Idaho high-point. It was another awesome adventure! Spent an unplanned night on the mountain and met another sheriff.
5/20/2005, departed on southwest roadtrip. Itinerary. Hiked the Grand Canyon down and back in one day. Had planned to hike Half-Dome at Yosemite, but installation of the safety cables was furthur postponed until mid-June, because of remaining snow. Brought back a few cases of red wine from Trader Joe's in Sacramento, and checked the route to the trailhead for the Utah highpoint.
4/19 to 5/1/2005: Taj Mahal in Agra, India and Kathmandu, Nepal!
4/9/2005: Annual pilgrimage and eating trek down Lake Street to the Minnesota State Capitol.
2/8/2005: Snow board lesson at Buck Hill!
January 2005: Egypt was totally awesome! This remains my all-time favorite tour.
2004 October 21st: Completed Humphreys Peak in Arizona in the blizzard and cold. Had visions of Shackleton at the South Pole. This was a close call, with whiteout conditions and 100 mph gusts at the summit!
10/6/2004: Completed Wheeler Peak in New Mexico, in the snow and wind.
10/3/2004: Completed Guadalupe Peak in Texas.
9/12/2004: Completed Boundary Peak in Nevada. Made one wrong turn on the way down and spend the night on the mountain. When I got back to the motel in Hawthorne, I had an unexpected visit from the sheriff, who told me he had been 5 minutes away from declaring a 3 county search and rescue event, on my behalf.
August 11-21, 2004:
Alaska Cruise-tour Trip report and pictures.
2003-2004: Japan adventure. And again 2005-2006.
2002-2003: California hikes and skiing during a consulting assignment, including El Capitan.
Other Adventures
Ok, there was the 1964 billboard adventure, the water tower adventures in Buffalo and Rockford, the motor cycle adventure through the steam tunnels at the University of Minnesota, the getting shot at on Guam's Mount Lamlam adventure, the scuba diving in the Navy adventures, the midnight runs to TiJuana, the sky diving adventure, the glider adventure, the Gilroy shopping cart caper, the fencing lessons, the boundary waters canoe trips ... I don't have pictures of many of these for some pretty good reasons.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
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