Three nights camped in a bed of thorns. The first night you could hear the insects, which crickets deemed to be audible I recalled there is a trick to use there noise to calculate temperature supposedly,”In 1897, a scientist named Amos Dolbear published an article titled “The Cricket as a Thermometer” that noted the correlation between the ambient temperature and the rate at which crickets chirp.”
The insects’ muscles contract to produce chirping based on chemical reactions. The warmer the temperature, the easier the cricket’s muscles activate, so the chirps increase. The cooler the temperature, the slower the reaction rate, and the less frequent the chirps are, the lower the chirp rate.
Count the number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get the temperature.
Example: 48 chirps /(divided by) 3 + 4 = 20°C
I feel stuff like this I should know. The second day I didnt hear the birds much, but the third day they were very loud and audible. By the end of the day they were pretty much within arms distance. I thought about catching some. Also thought about leaving a bird feeder for my flying companions. The fourth day I heard many birds including what must have been a duck or something of that size. Often times when I was on my 7 month hiking trip hiking the entire Appalachian Trail I tried interacting with wildlife. I pet a bear once in the smokey’s TN. Came within arms reach of deer. A few’s days into this hike I learned how to make a barn owl come to me by mimicking there noise. A son and father hiking the trail told me about this trick. There names are Bill and Bill. I saw them for the first weeks of the trail and remember telling them they might pass me now but right at the end of the 2185 mile trek to Katahdin. Funny thing I was behind them after that chat and passed them the day before the hike was finished. I saw them on my way back down from Katahdin. That is the final point of the North end of the Appalachian Trail. If you continued after that you would go on a trail called knifes edge which totally looked like a blades sharp end hiking with both sides of you a steep drop off.
Turns out a majority of smaller male birds like to sing in the dawn of the day. They do this to try and find a mate. The female will supposedly go to the male with the most beautiful rhythm. They are make noises out of rythmn which is suppose to me they are being territorial. Makes me wonder when i whispered to the birds and interact with my harmonica were they thinking I was there soulmate. I felt like the harmony was intriguing. Guess ill never know all the trail of bird hearts I broke… haha 😦
The 4 days and three nights on this last test run really showed me what the power of isolating can do. I was fabricating idea after idea. Some seem quite outstanding. Becoming a professional travel journalist at the level I would like occurred to me that the process is not a sprint it is a marathon. or at least it is a long duration. So many new notes and reinforcements that this is what I should do with my life. I hope my business partner know there is a rhythm and reason for this expedition. Other than my creativity seemingly seeing huge spikes along with the engineering perspective addressing this type of travel. I have to admit icing on the cake is how much you learn by traveling. I told one guy I was interviewing in bend about 2 weeks ago that I can have a 100 perspectives doing this documenting and questioning. Like a fly with 100’s of eyes.
I dug deep this time in the woods and focused on how to go pro. Usually I just focused on the expedition completion. Hiking a trail for 7 months every mile down was less stresses on the heart of doubt. I did not focus during this trip to become a outdoor legend.The canoe trip down the mississippi for four months had its own deterrence. Such as all my sponsored gear was giving to me the day of the trip with exception to a few miscellaneous things. This gave me no time to get use the equipment. There was a since of urgency as well. Taking a four month vacation can make for pressure and uncertainty. These two expeditions I did not focus enough on how to improve as a traveler with precision. Now I am focusing on it and I see so many errors in my ways and upgrades. Trying to get a sponsor pitch together soon. I’m coming up with ideas that i dont even see on the market. Also having ideas of taking two different sporting companies and having them collaborate with me for a joint product. As a note being educated in mechanical engineering, manufacturing and trades man I do believe I can take pretty much any product if not all and come up with an economical upgrade.
