Morning Guy Blog

For Early Risers Who Wish That It Could Be Morning All Day

For Early Risers Who Wish It Could Be Morning All Day

Welcome to Morning Guy Blog—a hodgepodge of photos/videos and sometimes profound (but usually inane) thoughts on sunrises, Montana life, hiking, sailing, kayaking, fishing, campfires, family, watercolor painting, beach walking/biking, and favorite movie/music/TV clips.

All the good stuff in life.

Red, Red Rocks

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We completed the final days of our stay in SW Utah with a visit from our daughter and grandchildren. I week of fun hiking and rock scrambling ensued!

Bold Move

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Our son, who in recent years has acquired the “mariner bug,” has left a perfectly good engineering job and a beautiful Afton, Minnesota house, to pursue his dream of working in a mariner-orientated job near the sea. He and his family have purchased a house on shore of Chesapeake Bay. And, in a week, he will begin a new engineering job, leading a team, designing the propulsion system for the next class of US Navy submarines.

This is quite a leap for our “march-to-his-own-drummer” Renaissance Man who, in his many varied occupations, has driven 18-wheelers, hand delivered impossibly heavy commercial sheet-rock, worked a forklift for a brewer, managed the assembly floor for a furnace manufacturer, overseen the installation of overhead power transmission lines on the outskirts of Kathmandu, achieved patents for large-volume transportation refrigeration systems, become an accomplished sailor and licensed skipper, and has self-learned numerous trades in his personal endeavors.

And all of this as a pup, with the best yet to come.

We wish he and his family the best in this bold, new adventure. And we look forward to visiting their new abode.

We’re Better On Our Days With The Horses

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Okay, the song has nothing to do with the video other than we call our ebikes our horses. And our days are pretty good on them.

This is a recent bike ride on Zion National Park’s famous Scenic Drive.

The music is written and performed by Alberta cowboy-musician Stewart MacDougall. Interestingly, the backup vocals are performed by Billy Cowsill, former teen idol of the 1960s family band, The Cowsills. Billy was a lifelong musician and, sadly, this was his final performance.

Back To Snow Canyon

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Snow Canyon State Park (Utah) is such a beautiful place, we had to go back for another morning.

Red rocks. White rocks. Red and white striped rocks. It is such an alien environment to us. Photos just do not capture the magnificence of the rock formations.

Snow Canyon Downhill

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Perhaps one of the most beautiful and enjoyable bike trails we have ever come across. Snow Canyon State Park’s (Utah) Whiptail Trail.

Above is the downhill video (4-min). If you would like to see it both uphill and downhill, click the video below (10-min). Remember to enlarge either to full-screen and up the resolution.

Music: Society by Eddie Vedder

Music: That Next Place by Thomas Newman (from the motion picture, Meet Joe Black — a decent, thought-provoking movie with, easily, my favorite movie soundtrack)

Red Reef Hike

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A short morning hike into the first two waterfalls along the nearby Red Reef hiking trail.