The JimAnna Chronicles

As you can tell from this post, I have come home from Iraq. It was a great (albeit challenging) experience. If you’re interested, the previous three posts have a few details. However, one of the first orders of business was to go out into the incredibly green forest (especially to color deprived eyes). The first [...]

After our adventures in the Interlaken Valley, we moved our base camp further up the mountain to the village of Mürren. This magnificent little village is only accessible by hiking trail and train. Since we had a bit of luggage (including the computer I’m typing on), we opted for the easier, but still picturesque train. [...]

Well, we just got back from one of the best trips we’ve taken. The French Alps are truly spectacular. We went to Chamonix Mont Blanc to spend the weekend skiing and playing in the snow. We went skiing the first day. Unfortunately the weather across Europe has been very warm, so the snow wasn’t the [...]

This afternoon, we had the pleasure of joining Dennis and Amanda for her first “real” hike on Guam. Amanda said she wanted to go on a hard hike. So … we decided on Pagat Cave and Cliff (which you may recall from a post last year). In fact here she is now (she did really [...]

Today, Anna and I hiked out to two different destinations. The first, we had visited earlier this year with my parents and the second was a brand new hike (for us at least). The impetus for the hikes today is that there is another group of six cadets from the Air Force Academy. They’re again [...]

Today, we took our largest group on the hiking trails of Guam. There were 23 people who came with us to Tarzan Swim Hole. We wanted to go somewhere easy to get to and had water to cool off in. Here’s the group by the water. As you can see, the main attraction was the [...]

Yesterday, we went back to one of our favorite beaches on Guam, Haputo Beach. It’s on one of the Navy bases on the island, so that limits who has access. That also means that there’s often little or no crowd. Yesterday, we were fortunate and had it to ourselves most of the time. It’s a [...]

Well, this afternoon, in a matter of three hours, Anna and I conquered the tallest mountain in the world at a staggering height of just over 37,000 feet. Do you know what its name is?? No, it’s not Mt Everest, nor Mt Kilimanjaro. It’s called Mt Lam Lam. OK, so only 1,331 feet are above [...]

Hi, well this weekend, we braved the jungle of Guam again. We went again with a group of CGOs. This time there were 12 in our party. I offered to take the group on another hike, this time in search of one of the pretty waterfalls around the interior of Guam. However, my caveat was [...]

Well, we decided to go for another hike this past weekend. So, we offered to all the Company Grade Officers (CGOs … this is what the Air Force calls its junior officers in the ranks of lieutenant and captain) that we would take everyone down to the Double Reef Beach. So, our weekend started out [...]