Robert Francisco

Friday, April 21, 2006

This Journal would not be possible without the help of those who have graciously agreed to transcribe my chicken scratch. Many hikers the last few years have taken to carrying a small device called “pocket mail”. This piece of technological marvel allows you to type into a small PDA like device and then send your text to an email address over any phone line. Once in an email it is pretty simply to cut and paste into trailjournals. Not for me however. With the exception of my digital watch/compass/altimeter and my digital camera I have decided to do this hike unplugged and will attempt to write my journal by hand. I think this is going to be much harder than it sounds as I do all my writing on the computer and have for a few decades now. After I write it, I will then send them to the transcribers via snail mail and hopefully they will be able to figure out what the heck I meant as I misspelled every other word.

So thank you in advance to Teresa and Liz who have agreed to transcribe for me. Teresa will be on duty for the first month and then Liz will take over after she returns from Aqua Dulce. Now Teresa says she is going to take full liberty on embellishing my journal if it is boring, so if you read anything totally outrageous it likely never happened. Rather, Teresa simply made it up. Friday, April 21, 2006

This Journal would not be possible without the help of those who have graciously agreed to transcribe my chicken scratch. Many hikers the last few years have taken to carrying a small device called “pocket mail”. This piece of technological marvel allows you to type into a small PDA like device and then send your text to an email address over any phone line. Once in an email it is pretty simply to cut and paste into trailjournals. Not for me however. With the exception of my digital watch/compass/altimeter and my digital camera I have decided to do this hike unplugged and will attempt to write my journal by hand. I think this is going to be much harder than it sounds as I do all my writing on the computer and have for a few decades now. After I write it, I will then send them to the transcribers via snail mail and hopefully they will be able to figure out what the heck I meant as I misspelled every other word.

So thank you in advance to Teresa and Liz who have agreed to transcribe for me. Teresa will be on duty for the first month and then Liz will take over after she returns from Aqua Dulce. Now Teresa says she is going to take full liberty on embellishing my journal if it is boring, so if you read anything totally outrageous it likely never happened. Rather, Teresa simply made it up.

This Journal would not be possible without the help of those who have graciously agreed to transcribe my chicken scratch. Many hikers the last few years have taken to carrying a small device called “pocket mail”. This piece of technological marvel allows you to type into a small PDA like device and then send your text to an email address over any phone line. Once in an email it is pretty simply to cut and paste into trailjournals. Not for me however. With the exception of my digital watch/compass/altimeter and my digital camera I have decided to do this hike unplugged and will attempt to write my journal by hand. I think this is going to be much harder than it sounds as I do all my writing on the computer and have for a few decades now. After I write it, I will then send them to the transcribers via snail mail and hopefully they will be able to figure out what the heck I meant as I misspelled every other word.

So thank you in advance to Teresa and Liz who have agreed to transcribe for me. Teresa will be on duty for the first month and then Liz will take over after she returns from Aqua Dulce. Now Teresa says she is going to take full liberty on embellishing my journal if it is boring, so if you read anything totally outrageous it likely never happened. Rather, Teresa simply made it up.