Only The Wild Ones
A minor packing disaster and our first Kimpton stop of RTXXI!
Read More Only The Wild OnesAuthor: Zak
RTXXI Is Coming!
The Untangling Knotts blog is back!!! Like the rest of the world we’re itching to get back to something reseambling normality after largely spending the past 15 months cooped up at home in Illinois. We are now now just FIVE days away from the start of RTXXI! We’ll be hitting many of our old favorite […]
Read More RTXXI Is Coming!Stay Home Lego Stop Motion
This year for Global Day of Design Ellie and Molly’s district encouraged students and parents to choose a project from a plethora of options that had been assembled for us to pick from. Of course, we quickly decided that we would each choose a project to complete. For some reason stop motion animation caught my […]
Read More Stay Home Lego Stop MotionSTAY HOME
The spread of COVID-19 in the United States is threatening to overwhelm our medical system. We can all act now to prevent this outcome by simply staying home. In this video I explain the exponential function, how it relates to COVID-19, and how we can act to slow it down.Please stay home and encourage others […]
Read More STAY HOMEReader Question – Energy
How do you have energy to do everything you do without getting exhausted? We do get exhausted! Some days we collapse into our hotel with little will to do anything at all. Even taking a shower seems like a chore. Running a load of laundry or repacking gear seem like insurmountable challenges. Some days we […]
Read More Reader Question – EnergyReader Questions – Overcoming Fear
Some of these epic adventures seem really scary to me. I get that you prepare ahead of time and evaluate as you go, but honestly the things I dream of doing seem beyond my safety level. I’ve seen your family conquer big mountains, and overcome lots of fears. How do you deal with fears wisely? […]
Read More Reader Questions – Overcoming FearReader Question – Reservations
Sometimes as I’m trying to locate camping or lodging reservations it feels opaque and tricky to find prices and options. What is your process for determining where to stay and when to book? Our first step to planning our trips is to decide which hikes we’d like to do. This gives us a rough framework […]
Read More Reader Question – ReservationsTraining Hike – Matthiessen State Park
With Spring Break now only 26 days away the need to get in as much training as possible has become urgent. Fortunately the weather cooperated today and Zoe and I were able to head to Matthiessen State Park to take the hike she planned for my Christmas present together. That’s right, I got a hike […]
Read More Training Hike – Matthiessen State ParkReader Question – Hike Selection
How do you know ahead of time which hikes you will enjoy? Particularly whether the hike is the right difficulty, too crowded, or boring. If folks have different comfort levels I remember sometimes you split up such as when some like caves and some don’t. Is that something you do often? Do you prepare tons […]
Read More Reader Question – Hike SelectionReader Question – Planning vs. Flexibility
How do you balance planning so far in advance to arrange permits and reservations with handling changing plans on the fly? On one hand I know you need to arrange permits and reservations, but on the other you also allow for things like illness, weather, or just having such a great time that you want […]
Read More Reader Question – Planning vs. Flexibility