August 31st, 2009 — National Parks, Travel
Despite living in Seattle for a summer and traveling all around Washington state over the years, I had never visited Mount Rainier National Park — until yesterday. The drive through the park was surprisingly pleasant though longer than expected. A day trip from Seattle really isn’t enough time to do justice to this park. During a short hike in the Paradise area of the park (all a friend and I could manage after the brunch buffet at the Paradise Inn) I took a few photos including this one:
August 27th, 2009 — Mountain Biking, Vancouver
It was an absolutely beautiful day here in Vancouver — the perfect summer day that Vancouverites dream out during the long gray winter.
I couldn’t resist the call of the mountains, so I headed up to Mount Seymour to visit an old friend, the CBC trail. This trail, probably the most popular on the North Shore, not only winds through a beautiful forest but is itself a work of art of dirt, wood, and stone. It is also a lot fun to ride.
So fun that I didn’t take any photos or video. I’ll have to wear my helmet camera next time.
Edit: next time
August 12th, 2009 — Travel
For years and years a friend of mine and I have been saying we should go to a Star Trek convention someday. We finally did, and it was surprisingly fun. It was also a good excuse to hang out in Las Vegas where the convention was held.
Together we took over 2000 photos, so it will take a while to sort through them. Here’s a few I like:
August 5th, 2009 — Family
My brother sent me these photos of a quilt that was made when he was born. All the neighborhood kids drew pictures which were converted into tiles of this quilt:
My sister drew this happy picture:
Mine is harder to describe:
