The Chronicles of John Trammell

Last weekend, I have decided to begin geocaching again, as a stress releaver from homework, school, and work; and that every Sunday I would go geocaching unless I have an event or meeting or weather didn't premit it.  Today, Rebekah was bored, and wanted to chill, so I took her on her first geocaching adventure with me throughout highland.  We found our first geocache no problem.  Our second cache of the day, we weren't so lucky.      I thought the cache was hidden at the AAA in Redlands, so I parked my car over there.  The coordinates kepts us going to the hotel parking lot next door.  We ended up finding the cache in the base of a light pole ( a typical location for a cache to be hidden) I took the log out of the cache, and placed the cache and the log on the wall near the dumpster.  The good thing was noone was around so we where safe to grab the cache, except there where video cameras.  As I was about to sign my username on the log,...

Since high school, I have been focused on aiming for a degree in Environmental Science, and have a career within the environmental field.  For this spring semester, I started thinking that getting a degree in environmental science isn't the path for me, and I should keep the love I have for the natural environment more of a hobby then a career.        By the time the semester was over, I was very unsure what I should get a degree in, and I spent the entire summer thinking of different things that I am really good and enjoy.  Near the end of the summer, when i was in northern California for a work trip, I reliezed that everything that I do so well is things i do for work and the 4-H Youth Development Program.  I decided I would want a degree that would allow me to do the same type of things I do for work and 4-H, but make a living off of it.        After talking to many people, I narrowed down what degree I wanted to get to a B.A. i...

The 2009 CA 4-H State Leadership Conference was held at UC Merced from August 6th-9th this summer, and this year's theme was It's A BIG Deal.  With my 7th time at SLC, this year was different then any other year, for I was there for the CA 4-H Computer Corps (as always) and also for my work the 4-H Military Partnership/Operation: Military Kids at the State 4-H Office.  This year was one crazy year, but everything went real smoothly and was a great success.      My sister and I drove up to Merced on Wednsday, the day before the conference, because I didn't want to wake up super early to get up to SLC, and be all stressed out about everything.  We left the Inland Empire at noon and got to Merced at 4:30.  We stayed in the same hotel that I stayed when I took Emily and Scotty to Yosemite in July.  After getting settled into the hotel, we went to eat at applebees, then chilled the rest of the night in the hotel room watching Viva La Bam and surfing t...

I flew from Ontario, CA to Phoenix, and then headed from there right off to Indianapolis. When I got into Indianapolis, Emily picked me up and we took the hour drive north east to her home town of West Lafayette. It was amazing to see how green the state is, with tons of grass, farms, and forests as far as the eye can see. It was defiantly a different change of pace compared to suburbia of Southern California. The houses out there are so different then ours. Lots of them acturally give a more lived in feeling rather then our structured almost the same looking homes. Emily's house is huge, and has an good amount of land. Lets just say if her house was in LA, it would be worth a million and a half dollars. The first day was basic, met her parents, chilled, showed me around her town alittle bit, then went to see Hangover with her and a friend of her's named James.       One of the best things about traveling is trying new food places, and I have to say, Indiana h...

For the third year in a row, I went camping to Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with my aunt (Maria), uncle (Darrell), cousin (Krystal), and John (Krystal’s future husband).  I treated this trip a little bit differently than the past two trips, for one of my cousins, Amanda (Krystal’s older sister), was unable to make it this year, due to enlisting in the National Guard, and she normally is the person I was able to do many things with during the trip since she didn’t have other things she had to do.  Every night I stayed up past everyone else and wrote down what happened that day and things I was feeling.  I have decided to type these journals’s out and post them for my blog of this year’s trip.  This trip is the only week in the entire year I mostly disconnect from the outside world, which included internet, using the phone, news, work, 4-H, and other day to day responsibilities.    Day 1: May 31 st , 2009      ...

My cousing, Amanda, who graduated from Army Boot Camp in Missouri last month and is now at Ft. Huchuca, Arizona, came out to visit the family for Memorial Day Weekend.  She arrived in Ontario in the early afternoon, while I was still in the Imperial Valley for Matthew's Graduation.  I decided that I would leave Imperial Valley at 4:30PM to get to Yucaipa around 7:00 PM.  When I got to Mecca (Town on the north west shores of the Salton Sea), I got a call asking if I could pick things yup to have smores.  I got into Yucaipa at 7:00, stopped off at Vons, then headed to the farm.           We all chilled and had a great BBQ dinner in the patio.  After dinner, and clean up the table a bit, we chilled in the nice June evening, and prepared the fire pit to light a fire.  It took us forever to get the fire going, but I was successful  .  We let the fire burn for a little bit, then broke out the stuff for smores....

On Thursday, I took the 150 mile drive south to the Imperial Valley (The Salton Sea Area and south to Mexico) for one of my best friends, Matthew Smith, college graduation.         I left the house at 8:30 am with the goal of arriving at 11:00, meeting Matthew at the county airport.  As I was driving down, I had to be apart of a work conference call about having military youth at different 4-H summer camps.  I arrived at the Imperial County Airport 20 mins before 11:00, earlier then what the directions claimed it would take me.  I figure it was due to the fact i cruised at 80 MPH when i got on the 86 South, for there where no cars on the road for miles, so it was nice to go a speed I wanted to go.  As my conference call ended, Matthew arrived.  I have to say it was a little strange to see Matthew drive up in an Oldsmobile Achieva, which just happens to be the same car I had as my first.  Luckily for him, he had one of the las...