Me with swamped canoe, being saved and photographed by Kate. Kate on the Cache Wetlands, helping with fieldwork. Last Sunday my wife, Kate, helped me with fieldwork on the Cache River Wetlands in southern Illinois. I swamped my canoe in two feet of water over...
After something like 17 hours of solo big truck driving, I made it home today. (Lily, next time I will take you up on your offer to go along!) I’m beyond exhausted, but it was an incredibly satisfying trip. I picked up aluminum parts for a few more of the new...
A day I’ll always remember. Kate, Lily, and I worked very hard this morning to get everything in its final place, and a year’s worth of planning came to fruition. We welcomed hundreds of delighted visitors from many countries tonight–here are a few...
Kate and I are just a few hours from Denver now. Today we passed Konza Prairie and the Flint Hills. We shared driving this big truck with beautiful skies but a 20mph+ crosswind all day, pretty exhausting. (Here’s Kate with our little travel companion,...
We’ve been busy at LRRD the past few weeks, planning consulting jobs (we’re mapping the Cache River this fall), conference travel, and finalizing the complete redesign of our Em2 model. It seems every day brings an important decision (Do we spent ~$10K, at...
