http://blog.johnmizell.com Devouring Global Resources? Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:28:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 John (& friends) have put together a collection of random media focusing on the ubiquitousness of simple good fun. Through music and video, interviews, and ambience, this podcast hopes to entertain you, just a bit. From around the world, johnmizell.com 帅巴 J no 帅巴 J john.patrick.mizell@gmail.com john.patrick.mizell@gmail.com (帅巴 J) John Patrick Mizell simple good fun Mizell, 帅巴J, California, Travel, http://blog.johnmizell.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://blog.johnmizell.com http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/09/03/england-2010 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/09/03/england-2010#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:31:47 +0000 john http://blog.johnmizell.com/?p=1995 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/09/03/england-2010/feed 0 Two and a half weeks on the English island has created quite the impression on me. Somewhat purposefully, we avoided the hub of this country, London, and pursued adventures in the South West and as far North as Edinburgh, Scotland, truly appreciating the significant cultural differences in the land of our national heritage. Starting out [...] http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/07/19/nappa-calistoga-ride http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/07/19/nappa-calistoga-ride#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:56:09 +0000 john http://blog.johnmizell.com/?p=1819 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/07/19/nappa-calistoga-ride/feed 0 The Nappa to Calistoga ride route as noted by my Garmin GPS: Note the location of our turn around is at a delicious restaurant in Calistoga called Sarafornia.  It’s on the main drag and hard to miss.  They’ll serve you a great deal of water for filling your bottles to get back on the road along with [...] http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/06/15/free-gps-maps http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/06/15/free-gps-maps#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:47:54 +0000 john http://blog.johnmizell.com/?p=1765 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/06/15/free-gps-maps/feed 0 Found a FREE GPS Map site – good for getting topos of any state in the US – perhaps the world?  didn’t look.  Also has roads, state and national parks, etc.  Cool, user supported site.  Hope it grows. Visit Today! http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/ http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/02/03/our-geocachings-own-new-corner http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/02/03/our-geocachings-own-new-corner#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:22:19 +0000 john http://blog.johnmizell.com/?p=1485 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/02/03/our-geocachings-own-new-corner/feed 2 Have a look at our new JohnMizell.com GeoCaching Site to follow our finds and try to seek our our hides. It’s not much, but it’s there. However, I like commentary, so I may continue to post here as well.. Enjoy! http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/01/12/geocaching-day-2-fer-reals http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/01/12/geocaching-day-2-fer-reals#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:30:04 +0000 john http://blog.johnmizell.com/?p=1463 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/01/12/geocaching-day-2-fer-reals/feed 0 Geocaching! After some exploration yesterday we really took hold of this new game/hobby.  So today we got serious, loaded up the GPS with new locations, and not only found eight more easy caches (because we’re still learning) but planted our very own here in town!  We put together a cool looking, twine wrapped, film-canister with [...] http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/01/11/geocaching-first-attempts http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/01/11/geocaching-first-attempts#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:20:22 +0000 john http://blog.johnmizell.com/?p=1461 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2010/01/11/geocaching-first-attempts/feed 1 GC1jnam – FOUND IT! Our first geocaching experience goes, well, well! I visited www.geocaching.com, downloaded some spots (little treasure chests on my garmin) and jumped into the car. I don’t have any street maps on my machine so it was all by cardinal directions, yeah, bad ass. But once we were out of the car [...] http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/11/05/november-ride-exhaustion http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/11/05/november-ride-exhaustion#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:38:08 +0000 john http://blog.johnmizell.com/?p=1267 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/11/05/november-ride-exhaustion/feed 1 Today I finally ventured out into the cold of Colorado for my first bike ride since driving my little road racer 1,200 miles from California on the back of the Volvo. Dawning my Chinese riding pants and socks, I also made sure to put on my sleeved Mizell Racing jersey because of weather. I packed [...] http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/08/23/the-route http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/08/23/the-route#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:42:51 +0000 john http://www.thecalifornias.org/?p=1078 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/08/23/the-route/feed 0 I finally got the route off the gps and online!! Cycling China For the full GPS file, us this URL: http://blog.johnmizell.com/man-uploads/gpslog/2009-08-23-china.kml More so, each post now has the daily GPS route accompanying it’s text.  Soon I hope to have routes on MapMyRide too. http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/07/12/chinese-cycling-information http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/07/12/chinese-cycling-information#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:01:50 +0000 john http://www.thecalifornias.org/?p=830 http://blog.johnmizell.com/2009/07/12/chinese-cycling-information/feed 1 Chinese Cycling Information Plans, Links, Pictures, Updates.  A living document if you will, living vicariously through both this site and other sites which we update. The Plans Notes: This plan is being continually updated and contains our comprehensive travel plan including map links, points of interest, routes, alternate routes, contacts and hosts, and any other information [...]