I’ve found a system that works well to keep me going 110 miles an hour. (should that be 110%? - either way I guess it means going and going all out)

I take at least one, sometimes two, 4-6 day long trips a year. I’ve negotiated with my wife and family so that I can make these trips work. I look forward to these trips as a way to recharge and regroup very much. I purposefully plan trips that long so that I can disconnect from the world, from Doba, from everything really.

One way I make sure that I can really disconnect is that I head out into the middle of nowhere. Places where cell phones don’t work. Dark Spots on the Map.

Over the years, I have gone on some amazing trips with a really good group of guys. I decided to chronicle our travels (or travails as they may be) on a website. So I jumped onto Wordpress.com, setup a blog, picked a template, used Picnik (one of the greatest services I’ve ever used) to edit some pics, and about 5-6 hours later, www.jercore.com was up and running:

For this trip that we leave on tomorrow, I rented a satellite phone and we’re going to try and do daily dispatches from the backcountry in the Wind River mountains. So if you want to follow along, subscribe to the RSS feed from www.jercore.com.

I’ll be back and posting again here the end of next week. Don’t worry about me though. I’m not afraid of the dark.