About me

My name is Jorge Camacho and for over 10 years I have been teaching high school chemistry students in South Florida.  Born and raised in the (305), I attended the University of Miami where I quickly learned that spending all day in a lab with limited to no human contact was absolute drugery.  So I chose to warp the minds of blossoming adolescents and years later I still love what I do, the warping part, and take absolute delight in teaching as well.  I figure as long as I have more days where I leave work whistling, that is better than what most people do on a regular basis!

I think that growing up in a state as vertically challenged as Florida, I quickly developed an appreciation for mountains.  Well let me rephrase this, when you live on the highest point in Miami, 26 feet above sea level, what most people consider hills, I see as HUGE!!!  Therefore, having traveled up the east coast of the US several times I always admired waterfalls, curving roads, and plunging hills.  (I will try not to raise my hands in the air this trip, but I make no promises of screaming out WHEE!!).  Therefore, I love hiking along “mountain” trails, paddling a rushing river, and in general any winding or curving road.

Now I have to confess that I have pitched a tent about 6 times in my life, (the ones with poles…that go into the ground)…so while I have enjoyed a lot of America’s outdoors…there is a lot of outdoors that I have never seen.  So lets just say that during this expedition, I am counting on some nice campgrounds to make my adventure a little bit easier.  While I know that these shots having me look like a rugged outdoorsman, at least in my head it works, I would say that I am more of a campy/weekend trekker.  What can I say a couple of days hiking and my peppers are killing me…nothing like a nice relaxing massage to unwind after seeing all that nature!! 

 

I like to think that this was my first taste of the wind in my hair!!

  

 

So this was my ATV on Santorini, we called it “Rusty”, for obvious reasons.