About

This blog is the online diary of the travels and trips of Emily Fousek and Jeff Frank. Assumably, if you are reading this, it is because you are one of our family or friends curious about the adventures on which we have embarked. We regret not having started this blog long ago, when we could have blogged about our previous trips to Monterey, Death Valley, Cabrillo National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns or one of our many trips to Arizona. However this blog was created for the initial purpose of logging our big trip to Couere d'Alene, Idaho, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park and Zion National Park. Hopefully it will also serve to keep record of future unseeable trips to who knows where and God knows why.

We were also inspired to start this blog by both of our parents. We have both suffered a childhood of outdoor adventure and looking past the bad attitudes of childhood and short attention spans, its actually pretty darn cool. One of the things that seemed stupid at the time was when our parents would make us write a travel journal about our trip. How boring is that? Funny thing as you get older, you forget things. Thumbing through journals of trips form the Fousek clan or the scrapbooks of Frank Vacations past, the conjouring of memories, stories and good times is like warm chowder for the soul; creamy and tingly. However since we are such rebels and deviants of the system, we will not trap ourselves to notebooks, pencils, film and prints; oh no. We are taking this thing to the interwebs.

From the posting of this entry we are exactly 39 days to debarkation. Already we have been psyching ourselves up as we get reservations, read guide books and plan each day of the trip. We have also been getting ourselves ready. We have been using the internet to help watch our caloric intake and even as I am writing this we just got back from a 5 mile walk around lake Miramar. Hopefully by the time we leave we will be completely ready for any trail in our way.
As you follow us on our preparation and eventual trip you can expect updates on what we are doing to get ready, pictures and entries from along the road and (hopefully) daily updates from out in the wilderness.

Thanks for following us,

--Em & Jeff