I'm working my way through them and adding descriptions... again... because I did a whole page worth of like 600 photos and Flickr lost my edits. *head desk* I even identified flowers and that grouse we saw on the trail. *sigh* Once I get all the descriptions up, I'll pick some of my favorites and do a quick write up ( Read more... )

I am alive and... I'm not sure if I'm exactly up to well, but I'm okay, surviving, living, learning, doing...

( Let me tell you about ALL THE THINGS! )

We leave on Thursday on our first trip out West since 2005. I've gotten over my trip anxiety by immersing myself in reading and research and planning and stuff. It's been oddly romantic, the two of us on the couch every night with our laptops open, sharing links and building our trip itinerary and checklists on shared notebooks on Evernote. We make ( Read more... )

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So, I finally got around to getting all the pics off our collective cameras and all in one place and uploaded online so that I can now link to them. Half of them are of food. That should say something about how we vacation. More on that later.

If you just want to see the pics, they're all here. I tried to be somewhat narrative about the ( Read more... )

I do have this hugely long document that is about two thirds of the trip, but I'm kind of sick of trying to get that thing wrapped up for now and I just want to put something up, because it was a good time! I'm honestly curious how you get writer's block on recounting a vacation, but whatever. That document doesn't want to be finished right now and ( Read more... )

Last weekend we drove out to Fall Creek Falls State Park for Doug and Abby's wedding. For all the time we've lived and hiked and camped in Tennessee, we've never been to this particular park for some reason. Doug said that's likely because the golf course probably put us off (we tend to look for wilderness and less population). But the place is ( Read more... )

We had an amazingly wonderful weekend in Asheville, NC a couple of weeks ago about a month ago (9/17-9/20). We went for the Brewgrass festival, but since it was a three night rental for weekends on the cabin, we made it a long weekend. As soon as we arrived at the cabin on Friday evening, I kind of didn't care if we went into Asheville at all. I ( Read more... )

I have not been able to keep up with all the Dragon*Con posts, but I went back and caught up just now, finally. Life keeps moving on whether I'm with it or not, so I'm going to try to put down a quick... something and move on with it. I don't think I have a full recap in me, but I'll try to say something about it ( Read more... )