It's been a hell of a trip, but we're back. I've got 95% of the photos uploaded to Flickr, arranged into bite-sized chunks for each town we were in or adventure we had. There's a some commentary, but we'll be happy to answer any question you have on here or over on Flickr.

Beemer and his co-workers had to attend a conference up in Estes Park at the (in)famous Stanley Hotel. Since I don't often get to tag along on these trips (and will be missing his trip to SF next week for AGU), he wrangled it so that I could tag along and stay at the hotel with him. Sure, the conference was off-limits, but that just meant that I ( Read more... )

With the test come and gone, I had foolishly thought I would have some spare time. Ha, no. Thanksgiving had us take a trip over to Nebraska to visit B's parents for the holiday dinner. They're currently living in a tiny town (population around 150) surrounded by miles of pretty much nothing, and I'm fairly certain I only saw 10 people moving about ( Read more... )

Oops, forgot to toss these up here.

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And now the adventure pauses for... laundry. Yeah. Dangerous, I know. :/

After a lengthy flight, we landed in Anchorage...

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Another set of photos have been dumped into the Flickr account. This time we went down to Homer to see the pre-tourist season sights, saw many bald eagles, and met up with some friends.


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I'm going to toss a handful of photos on here regarding today's adventures. There may or not be commentary as I'm really tired right now.

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We're heading off to Alaska for the week courtesy of a gift from dr_tectonic's mom. (Bob's watching the house while we're gone.) Tonight we're staying in Anchorage, tomorrow heading down the Kenai Peninsula, and stopping for a bit in Soldatna. Looking through some of the touristy materials, I foresee many options to fish, view dangerous animals, go boating, ( Read more... )

Oooh! I did find tickets to PDX for $89 (one way) about two to three weeks from now. I might jump on that chance as I could really use the break. I'll need to find places to crash, but I'm something will come up.

I did grab a copy of Persona 2 for the PSP. I'll do a write up of it soon for you curious gamers.

Hi! Hope you're all doing well.