This year is about travel, at least for the first half of the year.
The Grand Canyon
We went to the Grand Canyon again a couple weeks ago.
There wasn't as much snow as we were hoping for, but there was some, and there was a whole herd of elk. Shal took some video of it.
The next morning when we left, we stopped by Bearizona, a sort of zoo/wild animal park. In one part of the park, there was a pack of wolves that were really curious about our car (we're pretty sure they smelled our dogs).
They also had a really awesome birds of prey show, with hawks and owls and a falcon. They had one of the hawks fly very close to the audience, and on one pass, he flew between me and Shal and his wing clipped my head. This is right before that happened:
Mexico
We'll be heading down to Mexico in a couple of months to see GarageDelFuego and his girl get married. That will be awesome.
This Summer
Nothing's final, yet, but the tentative plan is to take a week-long road trip during the first week of July, roughly following this route:
The highlights of that route:
the 395 along the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains
Camping on the western shore of Lake Tahoe
Mount Lassen and Lassen Volcanic National Park
Visiting my Mom
the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier National Park
the Beartooth highway
Yellowstone National Park
Grand Teton National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park
about a dozen national forests
It should be pretty amazing.
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Do you have any travel plans coming up?
bean!
The Grand Canyon
We went to the Grand Canyon again a couple weeks ago.
There wasn't as much snow as we were hoping for, but there was some, and there was a whole herd of elk. Shal took some video of it.
The next morning when we left, we stopped by Bearizona, a sort of zoo/wild animal park. In one part of the park, there was a pack of wolves that were really curious about our car (we're pretty sure they smelled our dogs).
They also had a really awesome birds of prey show, with hawks and owls and a falcon. They had one of the hawks fly very close to the audience, and on one pass, he flew between me and Shal and his wing clipped my head. This is right before that happened:
Mexico
We'll be heading down to Mexico in a couple of months to see GarageDelFuego and his girl get married. That will be awesome.
This Summer
Nothing's final, yet, but the tentative plan is to take a week-long road trip during the first week of July, roughly following this route:
The highlights of that route:
It should be pretty amazing.
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Do you have any travel plans coming up?
bean!The other day, I bought Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo on DVD, because why the fuck not? Actually, I tried to buy it, for $14 even, but Amazon.com was like, "So, I know we said that was $14, but just between the two of us, we like you, so we're going to apply this mystery $14 credit, making your total purchase.... $0!" Sometimes having Amazon Prime feels like I've got a rapport with them, like they're the bartender I've been tipping really well and gotten familiar with.
Last weekend, Shal and I went camping with GarageDelFuego and his wonderful fiancee, and, as Shal so eloquently put it, we stood on top of a mountain and watched rain fall on the fog-shrouded Channel Islands. We also saw some shooting stars (which was the impetus for the trip, it being a perfect viewing night for a double meteor shower). It was pretty awesome.
A week from now, I'll be getting ready to go to San Francisco for a Wordpress conference, and it'll be good to see some of my favorite bay area residents.
It's worth noting that the lack of blogs between this one and the last is partly due to feeling like I should write an entry about our honeymoon transcontinental road trip of awesomeness, and never quite getting around to it. I may still do that, chronological order be damned!
bean!
Last weekend, Shal and I went camping with GarageDelFuego and his wonderful fiancee, and, as Shal so eloquently put it, we stood on top of a mountain and watched rain fall on the fog-shrouded Channel Islands. We also saw some shooting stars (which was the impetus for the trip, it being a perfect viewing night for a double meteor shower). It was pretty awesome.
A week from now, I'll be getting ready to go to San Francisco for a Wordpress conference, and it'll be good to see some of my favorite bay area residents.
It's worth noting that the lack of blogs between this one and the last is partly due to feeling like I should write an entry about our honeymoon transcontinental road trip of awesomeness, and never quite getting around to it. I may still do that, chronological order be damned!
bean!
I like trance.
There, I said it. I feel better now.
Seriously, I've always liked trance, as long as it's been called trance, and as much as it's changed over the years, I still like it. And I find it odd that even at this stage in my life I'm apprehensive about people trying to define me by the music I listen to. So I'm done turning off last.fm when I listen to trance.
It's not the only thing I listen to (hell, it's not even the only electronic music I listen to), but nothing makes me feel like dancing as much as trance does, and even though I don't dance anywhere near as much as I used to, I still enjoy feeling like dancing sometimes. It's just that electronic music snobs are some of the most aggressively elitist assholes in the music world, and the disdain for trance is unbelievable.
That's not to say there isn't a wide range of good and bad trance out there. But hating on trance as a genre is like hating on hip hop as a genre. It just doesn't make any goddamn sense unless you're unreasonably generalizing.
bean!
There, I said it. I feel better now.
Seriously, I've always liked trance, as long as it's been called trance, and as much as it's changed over the years, I still like it. And I find it odd that even at this stage in my life I'm apprehensive about people trying to define me by the music I listen to. So I'm done turning off last.fm when I listen to trance.
It's not the only thing I listen to (hell, it's not even the only electronic music I listen to), but nothing makes me feel like dancing as much as trance does, and even though I don't dance anywhere near as much as I used to, I still enjoy feeling like dancing sometimes. It's just that electronic music snobs are some of the most aggressively elitist assholes in the music world, and the disdain for trance is unbelievable.
That's not to say there isn't a wide range of good and bad trance out there. But hating on trance as a genre is like hating on hip hop as a genre. It just doesn't make any goddamn sense unless you're unreasonably generalizing.
bean!
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