Travel
A Wet Prairie
This year’s trip to Lost Prairie was the wettest I can remember – by a long shot. I think maybe one year in the five previous years, I remember a little bit of drizzle …. but nothing like the storms Mother Nature unleashed this boogie.
I Should Probably Write More
It’s been way too long since I’ve written – another Blue Ice camp has come and gone, along with lots of other stuff. Summer is, as always, wonderfully busy. In early June, my parents came out to visit – we kept busy with a trip to the DeYoung Museum, exploring and wine tasting in Sonoma, … Continue reading
It’s a Good Tired
Seems like a lot of what I do lately on this blog is bitch about being tired, usually from too much work or too much travel or too much stress or too little sleep. So this time I’ll say I’m glad to be tired because it means I really pushed myself in a good way … Continue reading
This one time… at tunnel camp …
… I worked my ass off, learned a lot, and ended the weekend exhausted, sore, and happy. This weekend was the first training weekend for my 8-way team – Perris Blue Ice. I’m one of four new members this year, who joined with the four returning members (including our player-coach). Our first weekend was in … Continue reading
So… very … tired
I write this when I really should be crawling into bed … a bed that is not my own, the second bed not my own that I am sleeping in this week. I have, since Sunday night, gone to sleep, woken back up at 130 Monday morning to pick up Sean from a delayed flight, … Continue reading
In the back of your mind …
This morning, thanks to a rare weekday morning (other than Fridays) at home, I had a great workout with Noah. I was updating him on the visit I had with my new doctor last week, and let him know that I was feeling pretty good this week, knowing that I was working with her to … Continue reading
Beyond Belize
The rest of the trip was relatively uneventful – I did wind up getting three more jumps in on Sunday, culminating in a sunset load that turned out (with clouds and wind rolling in on Monday) to be the last load of the boogie. The Otter did a spectacular fly-by of the landing area, and … Continue reading
Belize So Far
I feel the need to start to write about Belize lest I forget it. The sights, the sounds, the flavors! Our trip started off well enough, but quickly turned into a bit of a travel hassle. On Friday we flew from SFO to Miami, hopped a shuttle bus to our airport hotel, and had a … Continue reading
Holy Busy-ness, Batman!
Between already feeling like I need to clone myself to get all my work done, and getting set for vacation (Belize in just over a week!) and making sure I have coverage, and having a lot of cool new things brewing in life … it feels BUSY. Some good busy, some just busy busy, but … Continue reading
Our Friend the Sun
… is back in town this weekend. Despite an iffy forecast, yesterday’s weather turned out to be pretty good, so I headed up to Skydance. I got 4 jumps in fairly quickly, and spent the last couple hours just hanging out and chatting in the (not-too-cold) sun, drinking a tasty adult beverage (Captain Morgan Silver … Continue reading