I spent last weekend catching up with an old friend and making new ones while doing some post-Gauley Festival kayaking in Pennsylvania. I took my boat and gear and planned on doing 1 or 2 quick runs and generally just getting back into the water after a few years of not doing any whitewater. You can imagine what the result was.

Yes, the river ( Read more... )

My weekend was amazing. I had tons of work to do because I'm anticipating not being at work at least one day this week plus I have the MPRE to study for. On Saturday morning I was invited to tag along on an awesome camping trip to the Taku River. This is a pretty big deal since it's not very accessible (you have to take a boat to get there) and ( Read more... )

Thanks in part to queen_e1izabuff and her posts about Vera Bradley over the past few months, I now own two Vera Bradley items. One was a gift from Leigh, a small makeup bag to hold my digital camera, and the recent one was a tote. Now even Leigh, who hates stuff that wreaks of WASPy people, is now asking for a VB bag for her birthday ( Read more... )