Holy crap! We are back in good ole ‘MERRrrrica… specifically the New River Gorge.  AHhhhhhh.  It smells better here ,I think. At least, 15 meters from the wall it certainly does.  So, I wanted to write for a minute about our last days in Kalymnos. Unfortunately, weather.com didn’t get the memo that we had routes to climb, and projjys…

During the first few weeks of our trip we considered the weather to be adequate, but with room for improvement.  Well, we were wrong.  The past week has been wet, wet, wet.  For the past 6 days, we’ve experienced daily heavy rain and WV-esque humidity.  Plus, limestone gets SLICK.  Think of cleaning your porcelain sink…

So, today marks yet another Kalymnos rest day for Eddie and I…. which this time meant exploring, scooting, and learning about Kalymnian history. Coooooooooool. We ventured via scooter into  Pothia this morning to visit two museums: a cultural museum, and an archeological museum.  At the cultural museum (the only museum that you can take pictures…

Two days ago we awoke to a pitter-patter of a light rainstorm.  Considering we took a rest day on the previous day, there was no way I was not going rock climbing.  At first I thought we should abandon ship and go to the Grande Grotto, a gigantic cave instead of returning to Odyssey for…

So, back in May when Eddie was making the plane tickets he insisted that we were going to fly Luftansa and not Delta… the slightly cheaper ticket.  At the time, i didn’t understand what the big deal was…   Here is just a few reasons why Luftansa pretty much rocked our monkey faces off. Numero…

Well now, here we are leaving for our first climbing trip to Europe. Destination: Kalymnos, Greece Objective: Tufa-wrangle up on monster 40+ meter pitches. While I could sit here and explain to you how SYKED we are on our trip and how sicky we plan to climb on perfect pitches–I feel it may be more…