First off, I want to thank everyone for stopping by, and reading my posts. It means a lot to me, when I hear good things.
Well alot of you are probably wondering how or why I named by blog, “Mountain Dog Chronicles”. The name Mountain Dog, I kinda of thought of when I was thinking of a trail name. When I was going to school to be a chef in Pittsburgh, Pa., the people I hung out with called me Nate-dog. When I moved Kansas, they also called me Nate-dog. But they dropped the name Nate and called me Dog. So I sat back one day and thought about making a really cool trail name for myself. I can see you all now scratching your head and asking whats a trail name? A trail name is a name you or someone else gives you when you are out hiking or backpacking. It is the time you need to your self and God. You almost act like someone else. There are tons of different names, you even see them in books, movies, and see them on the Internet about hiking and backpacking. You could be doing a long distance hike with a stranger and you could never know what their real name is.
So anyway, I named myself Mountain Dog. Meaning, that I love to look at mountains, climb a mountain, or even be on a mountain. Mountains are amazing all natural structures. The dog part come from everyone calling me by my nick name. I also, thought of calling myself “Question Mark”, but my sister didn’t like that. But I thought it had a good ring to it.
So any ways, I wanted everyone to see what I was all about and naming my blog chronicles and not journal. Well thats easy. A journal is a book you carry around, write your thoughts and what you did that day, draw pictures, and write poems and stuff in. Well I wanted to record all my thoughts and hiking/backpacking experiences so everyone can read them. Besides, I like to see my self as a different person then everyone else. I don’t like that fact that everyone does everything the same way, or does it because everyone else, like buying that game system, or dressing the same clothes, same sunglasses, shoes, jeans, just because that famous person has that style, etc.
I am, someone who likes to think stuff threw. Plays it safe and carefully, looks out for other people, then thinks of myself last. I am, not a selfish person. I am, happy for what I have and the friends I got. I am, a single, I go to church , and I enjoys the pastors message every time.
I am, a backpacker, a hiker, a bicyclist, a granola eating, earth stomping, nature loving, big hearted, relaxing, nose stuck in a book or a magazine, who follows a personal trail of life, who has a volleyball room mate named Wilson, who likes to use rechargeable batteries, while using backpacking equipment in a everyday life, and being Eco-green as possible kinda of guy.
And thats who I am.
