As luck would have it I didn’t sleep well on the flat, soft ground. My body must have become accustomed to sleeping in awkward positions on granite. I just can’t win. I slipped out of the tent unnoticed and headed for the Ritz Carlton.  •  Breakfast was yoghurt on cereal. Again, I had been lied to …

The Afternoon  •  Sleeping in a van on the highway is hard. Sleeping in a van that is perfectly square on the highway is next to impossible. I managed to get in about a half hour of sleep during the two hour drive to the ferry. The rest of the time was spent gazing out the window at civilization …

The Morning  •  Beep… ............ beeep…….beep………………. beepbeepbeepbeepbeep…… My two week old beeping Timex Expedition blares in my ear trying to ring in the new day….. Or is it still the same day? It’s too frigging early to tell. I struggle to get my hands out of my cocoon and shut off the alarm …

The Afternoon  •  Lunch usually takes 30 minutes. Not much time to scour a couple of acres for possible routes down. Again, Jacquie and I split up. We make sure to always stay within yelling/hearing distance. The frigging cliffs are everywhere. I’ll make my way down one hundred feet thinking that …

The Morning  •  As I’m starting to get used to sleeping on granite, getting up in the morning is getting harder and harder. For most of my life I’ve had the “I would rather sleep in than escape my burning house” problem. When I have had to get up I’ve always relied on the faithful shower to wake …

Wake, stretch, yawn – I’m finally feeling a bit better. My nose buccaneers have subsided which I thought would be a good thing, but now I am constantly aware of my putrid body odor. Yuck. I’m going to have to do something about that today.  •  From the three inch diameter hole I see and breather …

The dreams….unbearable. So lucid you’d swear they are real. I lay awake in a daze for half an hour wondering what is reality. I gradually crawl out of the tent. Is it just me of do things not smell as bad as they have been? Oh, it’s just me, my nose is constipated from being sick.  •  The good …

3:30 AM – Burning throat and ears. I’m burning up. Fever is so hot. Hallucinating. Should I get up and see Matt and Jasmin? Did I already get up and see them or was that a dream?  •  4:00 AM – I can’t think straight. My fever is hotter. Forgetting where I am. Keep drifting off and waking up within …

The lucid dreams are starting to freak me out. During the night I dreamt that my girlfriends grandfather was driving a bus with her whole family on it. That bus ran a red light and smashed into a minivan carrying my whole immediate family……I woke up not know what was real and what was dream. I …