“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Yes, I played...
someone (not naming any names) didn't believe I played beach vollyball in LA... so here is a photo to prove it! (sorry there arent more photos but its hard to take pictures whilst playing you know)
I'm in the black shorts, Zach in the yellow...
Friday, July 24, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Slacker
I've been a blogging slackjob lately but here's some photos to tide y'all over.
-- Peace Out From My iPhone
Someone has got to post!
Hello Friends,
I think the last time my witty sister posted was from San Fran, since we've spent 4 nights in LA. I offer no pictures (for now) and my blogging skills are raw, but I really don't want to watch The Bachelor with Emily and Julie.
LA has been pretty wild. Not in the Paris Hilton type wild, rather it is like nothing I've ever seen. We spent 2 total days at Santa Monica and Venice Beaches. I'm pretty sure there were more people than in all of Eagle County (CO home). Crazy hodgepodge of people too! From the Rastafarians, to the barbies, bums, muscle heads, and so on. After riding our rented bikes around, people watched, drank beer, snuck Julie beer, we played beach volleyball. Yes, "we." I asked some random people if they wanted to play but we needed an extra person. Julie was awesome enough to step-up and soon enough Emily was playing too. We all ended up having great fun.
That's all I got for now, tune in next time for San Diego, Grand Canyon, Santa Fe and more.
Zachary
I think the last time my witty sister posted was from San Fran, since we've spent 4 nights in LA. I offer no pictures (for now) and my blogging skills are raw, but I really don't want to watch The Bachelor with Emily and Julie.
LA has been pretty wild. Not in the Paris Hilton type wild, rather it is like nothing I've ever seen. We spent 2 total days at Santa Monica and Venice Beaches. I'm pretty sure there were more people than in all of Eagle County (CO home). Crazy hodgepodge of people too! From the Rastafarians, to the barbies, bums, muscle heads, and so on. After riding our rented bikes around, people watched, drank beer, snuck Julie beer, we played beach volleyball. Yes, "we." I asked some random people if they wanted to play but we needed an extra person. Julie was awesome enough to step-up and soon enough Emily was playing too. We all ended up having great fun.
That's all I got for now, tune in next time for San Diego, Grand Canyon, Santa Fe and more.
Zachary
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Frisco!
Woowee, I dig San Fran! Sea lions and bread bowled chowder by a street jazz musician. Super rad.
-- Peace Out From My iPhone
-- Peace Out From My iPhone
Life on the road
It's been hard to update, even now I'm doubt this on my phone because I have an Internet signal I can't pick up on my actual computer.
We've spent the last 5 days in 4 national parks and innumerable state parks and national forests. We've camped out all the nights but last when we arrived at z's friend's place outside San fran and took our first showers and slept on couches. Indoors. It was refreshing.
I have lots to write about. Of the adventures we've encountered, the twisty switchback mountain roads, the melting canyon sunsets, waterfalls and slick rock. But it's hard to write too much from my iPhone (even if they did finally create the larger landscape keypad, which I can't get used to and still use the small keys... I know this only makes since to other iPhone users).
Anyway, i'll throw up a few photos and resume typing at some point in the bear future when my computer agrees to my prposal of cooperation.
These were the crazy switchbacj roads we drove into canyonlands national park ( which sounds like candyland to me everytime somone speaks the name aloud). We drove 25 miles on little off road paths like this, with the climb up the canyon at the end on the single lane no railing a million foot drop being the single most frightening moment in my life. We survived. It took over two hours.
Outside bryce n.p. was the greatest of all the tourist roadside shops (excluding of course the one which had a wildlife museum of "800 types of animals!" which was really just a room of stuffed animals, and not the plushy kind). Z is doing his best Daniel Boone impersonation. Spot on I think.
Next thing I know I'm back in nyc (or the vegas version of it). We hit the strip in the 110 degree heat. Lost 30 bucks at blackjack, made 15 at the slots. Not too bad for the experience of just playing there at all. Then we snuck into the pool of the monte carlo and spent the most blissful 30 minutes of our lives. After 3 dirty days/ nights of hiking, camping, driving, nothing felt more cleNsing then a chlorine pool in this desert oasis.
The drive btw vegas and yosemite went from the ugliest boring desert stretches to the most beautiful scene once we hit the sierra nevada mountains. I with I had stopped to take photos on that drive but I was too busy enjoying it. Seriously, the most magical scene.
We set up camp that night 5 moles outside yosemite, right beside the rushing waterfall and stream. I fell asleep that night to the kind of sounds I tend to play on sleep application, running water, sounds of nature, beautiful.
Yesterday was spent on a beach in lake tahoe. On the way we stopped for breakfast in one of those 5 building little towns (it was the first restaurant food we'd eaten and we were starving for it). Our waitress in middle of nowhere California town, populatin 200 was from Waterford, Michigan. Imagine the odds. Her husband was in the army and they were stationed nearby. She hated it there and desperately missed the Midwest. "Midwest folks?" said the other customer in the place. ""I'm out here from Wisconsin." I love Midwest people. Friendliest in the world.
Anyway, lake tahoe was beautiful. It took a while to find a public beach, stopping first at one full of rocks before moving on a number of miles around the shore to a nice sandy spot. We spent only a couple hours (I get bored on the beach) but it was long enough to head into the bay area burnt to a crisp.
And now it's today. And the adventure is still only beginning.
-- Peace Out From My iPhone
We've spent the last 5 days in 4 national parks and innumerable state parks and national forests. We've camped out all the nights but last when we arrived at z's friend's place outside San fran and took our first showers and slept on couches. Indoors. It was refreshing.
I have lots to write about. Of the adventures we've encountered, the twisty switchback mountain roads, the melting canyon sunsets, waterfalls and slick rock. But it's hard to write too much from my iPhone (even if they did finally create the larger landscape keypad, which I can't get used to and still use the small keys... I know this only makes since to other iPhone users).
Anyway, i'll throw up a few photos and resume typing at some point in the bear future when my computer agrees to my prposal of cooperation.
These were the crazy switchbacj roads we drove into canyonlands national park ( which sounds like candyland to me everytime somone speaks the name aloud). We drove 25 miles on little off road paths like this, with the climb up the canyon at the end on the single lane no railing a million foot drop being the single most frightening moment in my life. We survived. It took over two hours.
Outside bryce n.p. was the greatest of all the tourist roadside shops (excluding of course the one which had a wildlife museum of "800 types of animals!" which was really just a room of stuffed animals, and not the plushy kind). Z is doing his best Daniel Boone impersonation. Spot on I think.
Next thing I know I'm back in nyc (or the vegas version of it). We hit the strip in the 110 degree heat. Lost 30 bucks at blackjack, made 15 at the slots. Not too bad for the experience of just playing there at all. Then we snuck into the pool of the monte carlo and spent the most blissful 30 minutes of our lives. After 3 dirty days/ nights of hiking, camping, driving, nothing felt more cleNsing then a chlorine pool in this desert oasis.
The drive btw vegas and yosemite went from the ugliest boring desert stretches to the most beautiful scene once we hit the sierra nevada mountains. I with I had stopped to take photos on that drive but I was too busy enjoying it. Seriously, the most magical scene.
We set up camp that night 5 moles outside yosemite, right beside the rushing waterfall and stream. I fell asleep that night to the kind of sounds I tend to play on sleep application, running water, sounds of nature, beautiful.
Yesterday was spent on a beach in lake tahoe. On the way we stopped for breakfast in one of those 5 building little towns (it was the first restaurant food we'd eaten and we were starving for it). Our waitress in middle of nowhere California town, populatin 200 was from Waterford, Michigan. Imagine the odds. Her husband was in the army and they were stationed nearby. She hated it there and desperately missed the Midwest. "Midwest folks?" said the other customer in the place. ""I'm out here from Wisconsin." I love Midwest people. Friendliest in the world.
Anyway, lake tahoe was beautiful. It took a while to find a public beach, stopping first at one full of rocks before moving on a number of miles around the shore to a nice sandy spot. We spent only a couple hours (I get bored on the beach) but it was long enough to head into the bay area burnt to a crisp.
And now it's today. And the adventure is still only beginning.
-- Peace Out From My iPhone
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