my life from august 5th to present (a.k.a. the out-of-boston experience)
Friday, August 5th, 2005
last nite in bostonia, i go to the Ben Folds concert at the Bank of America Pavillion, which was a kick ass show, im so glad i finally got to see ben folds live. he is very inspirational. to me.
Got home after the show and packed all my shit. not just for my trip-to-come, but packed everything in general, seeing as how the next time i will see that apartment, i will me moving my stuff out of it. so i did that.
Aug. 6
Woke up way to early to gather some last minute things and hopped a bus to Manchester, CT to see nay at CJs sister's going away party in Orange CT. But she picked me up in Hartford and then we went to get Helen at the ferry and went to CJs. This party was spectacular, despite the lack of people of our generation. never before have i partaken with so many adults. cough, cough...no pun intended. fun times it was great
Aug. 7
Drove back to Renees and hung out with Dan and AJ and Bober and sat around and played throw the lighter
Aug. 8
Nay worked and I hiked Mount Frissel, the CT highpoint, and then went to Dans with nay and bober and bryce and greg and crystal and watched dodgeball and played sting-pong which is a neat new game i learned
Aug. 9
Neal picked me up in Granby and we went back to Saratoga to gather and pack all out gear and we watch a documentary on K2. it was ca-razy. seriously crazy. then we slept on the roof because it was hot and watched the bats.
Aug. 10
Uris the Latvian staying at Neal's drove us to the Hartford airport and we flew out at 11:30, through Chicago O'Hare 1:30, into Denver at 4:20 MT and waited an hour and a half for our bags (*notice the forshadowing). Got our white GMC Envoy rental (4900 miles on it to start) and started driving southerly towards our first destination. we drove by Denver, Colorado Springs, past Pikes Peak through Pueblo and to Walsenburg. camped at Lathrop State Park.
Aug. 11
A sunny nice day to hit Great Sand Dunes National Monument and hiked to the top of the tallest sand dune, 700 feet from the base. This was so cool because it was just like the Sahara huge desolate dunes extending over a lot of land. Then we drove south into New Mexico to near Taos and hiked Wheeler peak in 3 hours and 45 minutes (6 mi., 4,000 ft. elev. gain). Then we drove south more to Las Vegas, NM and saw Neal's friend from college that he hasnt seen since 1989 and we just walked in and he was like whats up. camped at some lake on the side of the road.
Friday, August 12
Left Las Vegas at 7am and drove south the White Sand Dunes National Monument. This was as cool as the other sand dunes, except they were smaller and spread over more land, and they were snow white. it was really spectacular. then we drove south more to Carlsbad, NM and saw Carlsbad Caverns National Park which has the largest underground room in the world, you can put like 12 football fields down there. it was shweet. Then we drove more south to Texas, Pine Spring National Park and camped.
Aug. 13
Hiked Guadalupe Peak from 7:45 - 10:45 (8 mi., 4,000 ft. elev. gain) on a nice, cool sunny day. We left the summit just as the clouds were rolling in. This mountain was really cool. Starting to notice how different the terrain is everywhere in comparison to each other. Many cacti. I always loved cacti. Now we started heading north to Oklahoma, through Lubbock and Amarillo and into Boise City, OK. we camped at Black Mesa National Park in a cow pasture and i stepped on a tarantula and we saw a cow skull and tumbleweeds.
Aug. 14
Bushwacked up Black Mesa from 7:15 to 10:15 (8 mi., 5oo ft. elev. gain) in hopes of finding rattlesnakes, which is what this area is famous for, but we found none such serpents. Then we drove up to Kansas through Elkhart, Sharon Springs and Weskan. We drove to the highpoint, Mount Sunflower, on a partly sunny day and took a couple pictures. This one is really pretty, rolling scenery of sunflower and grain fields. The highpoint had a sunflower made out of railroad spikes too, which was awesome. Then we kept driving north through the NE corner of Colorado into Nebraska and found a ghetto place to camp under a huge radio tower because aparently we wanted to microwave our brains while we slept.
Aug. 15
Drove to Panorama Point, Nebraska's disa-high-point-ment, on a foggy morning. Then we drove over to Cheyenne, Wyoming and straight down to Fort Collins, CO and stopped at Colorado State Univ., Neal's old school, and pooped in the nice bathrooms and used the internet and charged camera and cell phone batteries. Then we drove East through Rocky Mountain National Park to waste time and catch some scenery before we drove back to Denver to pick up the 3rd and last member of our party flyin in. We saw elk and stuff. then we drove through Granby, CO on the way back to Denver. we got there an hour early so we drove to a house farm (of which there are plenty popping up all over the greater Denver area, to our demise) and cooked on our stove some rice-a-roni in the yard until the sprinklers turned on under our asses. Got to the airport and Mike got in, but his bags didnt (*recall the forshadowing. it is now understood) so we waited in the horrible-looking ciricus tent Denver airport for 4 more hours for his bags until midnight, putting us behind a day. fuck airlines. drove to the Wyoming border and camped at a rest stop.
Aug. 16
Continued west through Laramie, WY to Rock Springs and up to Pinedale. Cloudy and rainy so we got to the head of our trek at 4pm and just camped. I finished reading Hard Times at this juncture, which was very prudent.
Aug. 17
Weather kept blowing loads on us and more thunderstorms were predicted for the next 3 days, and considering this hike was 32 miles and 2 1/2 days long, we didnt want to be soaked and tent-ridden and chance not summiting bc of too much snow up high, after lots of work getting there, so we decided to ditch the Wyoming highpoint and go to Idaho instead. what the hell, its only 10 hours away anyway, why not eh? So we left early and got to the Idaho highpoint trailhead at 2:30pm and decided to hike it anyway, despite the fact that youre not supposed to hike anywhere in the rockies after 12 noon because of thunderstorms. we were anxious and took our chances and set off at 3, summited Borah Peak at 6:45 after a short hailstorm, and were back down at 8:45 (3.5 mi., 4,000 ft. elev gain). This mountain was my favorite of the whole trip, it had fuckign incredible ledges and nice scenery, and we saw the sunset when we reached treeline over the far-off mountain range and over the valley that had 5 or 6 huge green crop circles on the way back down. Drove back east into the nearest town and ate at a diner called Pickles at 11pm and just crashed asleep off on some dirt road. We camped right in the middle of the road, but it looked like it wasnt used much and we were dead so we threw up the tent and hoped that thunderstorms wouldnt come and wash us away.
Aug. 18
From our campspot in Arco, ID, we drove through Rexburg and into Yellowstone National Park in NW Wyoming. Spent the whole day in the park seeing geysers, buffalo, elk, waterfalls, canyons, and bubbling poop pits that smelled like shit and were all brown adn yellow bc of so much sulfer. Then we drove north into Red Lodge, Montana and stayed at a hotel for the first time on the whole trip (that mike payed for) so we could organize our packs for the long montana hike and so i could get a freakin shower.
Friday, August 19
Left red lodge at 6 in the morning and drove to Custer national Park to the parking area of the montana adventure. Hike in to Mystic Lake, then a constant up past Huckleberry Lake to Princess Lake, and then up past 4 Snowball Lakes to Avalanche Lake. The lakes were so blue and clear in the sun, and the pine trees and boulder-ridden valley was so amazing, it was really peaceful, and i was glad to finally be on our first overnight trip and away from the car and immersed in the montana backcountry. we camped at Avalance lake at the only possible campsite among the huge boulder fields, in this little sheltered nook of feeble pine shrubs and rocks. 8.5 mi, 3400 ft. elev gain.
Aug. 20th
Summit Day.
*a little preface of the journey on which we were about to embark. Granite Peak, Montana is considered the most technically-difficult mountain of all 50 state high points, even over Denali in Alaska. The last 600 feet elev. are near vertical, and require ropes to descend, and sometimes to ascend. only 250 people summit each year*
Left camp at 6:15 am, crossed the famous boulderfield, some the size of 2-story houses, by 7:15. Mike turned around at about 8 because he was sick with something and didnt have any energy, so it was just me and Neal. We got to the snowfield and put our krampons on and were at the ridge by 9:15. We followed the ridge up to the snowbridge, and it is here, at 10am, when the fun began. from here on there were so many steep routes and sketchy chutes that you had to be real careful and it just took forever. We got to the main Notch (12,500 ft) at noon and headed up the toughest part towards the Keyhole (12,750). me and Neal finally summitted at 1:30, or somewhere around then, just realizing that we free-climbed the entire damn thing. but there were good handholds the whole time, and there was a good route, once you found it. Then we repelled down at 7 different spots of approx. 500 ft. all in all. back across the snowbridge and to the snowfield and we self-arrested down the whole thing and were at the bottom in 10 minutes, which took us over and hour to climb up earlier in the morning. that was wicked fun. we got back into camp at 7:15 so dead tired and thirsty, we were way too dehydrated all day. It was a hot sunny day and we had amazing views of the other mountains and lakes. 4 mi, approx. 3,000 ft. elev gain, 13 hours. definitely the hardest mountain ive done, and it would probably be my favorite if it wasnt so sketchy on top, which i guess in a way is fun. It was Neal's second time back here, he turned around the first time he came. So its really awesome that we got this one and nothing went wrong.
Aug. 21
packed up camp and left at 8am and hiked down and out, getting to the car at 12:50pm. another hot, nice day, which made us really thirsty and we were filtering water at every damn brook. Drove east through Abserokee, Billings and Miles City and into North Dakota to Bowman, where we drove in and camped at the base of the ND highpoint.
Aug. 22
Hiked the easy north dakota highpoint, White Butte, from 5:30 am - 6am and watched the red sun rise over the plains. 1 mi., 400 ft. elev gain woooo hoo. headed south (of course we filled up for gas at the Kum & Go gas station) and into south dakota. it was windy and sunny, and we stopped at the Geographical Center of the US, which was rather interesting. Went through Newell to Rapid City and saw Mount Rushmore. Then we hiked Harney Peak in 2 hours (from 230-430 i think, i didnt write it down) and went swimming in Sylvan Lake and washed off a bit, and it was really refreshing and in an awesome spot. There were these huge rocks in the middle of the lake, only they werent sharp and jagged but, like folded lava blobs...more round and really cool looking. Then we drove south to Newcastle Wyoming, stopping in for a glimpse of Jewel Caves National Park just because it was there and its awesome. Drove all the way to Denver and returned our now-9,900-mile rental car and flew home.
This trip was really crazy, and I am really glad I did it. I got 9 more highpoints, and i saw 9 National Parks. Hopefully there will be many more to come, seeing how i only have 15 highpoints total now. The best part of highpointing is definitely seeing the country as you pass between peaks, it really opens your mind as to how much is out there even within our own country. It makes me not hate the US so much.
I threw in some random pictures below of each of the highpoints. I should have all 300+ of the pictures I took up on a webshots account, once i finally buy one and set it up. I will probably post a link to those at some point, hopoefully soon.
new mex - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=44787&object_id=287&type=mountain&mountain_id=287&route_id=
tex-ass - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl/photo_id/62958/mountain_id/2350/object_id/2350/type/mountain
oklahomo - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=57576&object_id=2310&type=mountain&mountain_id=2310&route_id=
kans-ass - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=142599&object_id=2798&type=mountain&mountain_id=2798&route_id=
nebrasska - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=76619&object_id=2309&type=mountain&mountain_id=2309&route_id=
udaho - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=85068&object_id=4&type=mountain&mountain_id=4&route_id=
montanus - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=2583&object_id=57&type=mountain&mountain_id=57&route_id=
north dakotee - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=57461&object_id=2301&type=mountain&mountain_id=2301&route_id=
south dakoter - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=6898&object_id=378&type=mountain&mountain_id=378&route_id=
when i got home i went to my dads for a couple days, and then i came back up to the lake to relax for a couple days, and now I am at home because i packed all my crap in the horse trailer once again. leaving for boston in 2 days, hopefully going back up to the lake tomorrow one last time before we leave. got to go waterskiing, and my mom has been cooking me everything bc she is sad bc emmy just went to college and now she's alone with mike. we just watched iron chef and the mtv awards together. i hope nobody read that whole thing. im glad i have an account of it now, though. possible upcoming trips for the year: Minnesota in Oct, Lousiana, Missouri, Arkansas and Alabama in Jan/Feb/March, Hawaii in April, Denali in May (slight chance), World Cup in Germania and Italy in June. would be nice to have people to go with....
hasta luego
last nite in bostonia, i go to the Ben Folds concert at the Bank of America Pavillion, which was a kick ass show, im so glad i finally got to see ben folds live. he is very inspirational. to me.
Got home after the show and packed all my shit. not just for my trip-to-come, but packed everything in general, seeing as how the next time i will see that apartment, i will me moving my stuff out of it. so i did that.
Aug. 6
Woke up way to early to gather some last minute things and hopped a bus to Manchester, CT to see nay at CJs sister's going away party in Orange CT. But she picked me up in Hartford and then we went to get Helen at the ferry and went to CJs. This party was spectacular, despite the lack of people of our generation. never before have i partaken with so many adults. cough, cough...no pun intended. fun times it was great
Aug. 7
Drove back to Renees and hung out with Dan and AJ and Bober and sat around and played throw the lighter
Aug. 8
Nay worked and I hiked Mount Frissel, the CT highpoint, and then went to Dans with nay and bober and bryce and greg and crystal and watched dodgeball and played sting-pong which is a neat new game i learned
Aug. 9
Neal picked me up in Granby and we went back to Saratoga to gather and pack all out gear and we watch a documentary on K2. it was ca-razy. seriously crazy. then we slept on the roof because it was hot and watched the bats.
Aug. 10
Uris the Latvian staying at Neal's drove us to the Hartford airport and we flew out at 11:30, through Chicago O'Hare 1:30, into Denver at 4:20 MT and waited an hour and a half for our bags (*notice the forshadowing). Got our white GMC Envoy rental (4900 miles on it to start) and started driving southerly towards our first destination. we drove by Denver, Colorado Springs, past Pikes Peak through Pueblo and to Walsenburg. camped at Lathrop State Park.
Aug. 11
A sunny nice day to hit Great Sand Dunes National Monument and hiked to the top of the tallest sand dune, 700 feet from the base. This was so cool because it was just like the Sahara huge desolate dunes extending over a lot of land. Then we drove south into New Mexico to near Taos and hiked Wheeler peak in 3 hours and 45 minutes (6 mi., 4,000 ft. elev. gain). Then we drove south more to Las Vegas, NM and saw Neal's friend from college that he hasnt seen since 1989 and we just walked in and he was like whats up. camped at some lake on the side of the road.
Friday, August 12
Left Las Vegas at 7am and drove south the White Sand Dunes National Monument. This was as cool as the other sand dunes, except they were smaller and spread over more land, and they were snow white. it was really spectacular. then we drove south more to Carlsbad, NM and saw Carlsbad Caverns National Park which has the largest underground room in the world, you can put like 12 football fields down there. it was shweet. Then we drove more south to Texas, Pine Spring National Park and camped.
Aug. 13
Hiked Guadalupe Peak from 7:45 - 10:45 (8 mi., 4,000 ft. elev. gain) on a nice, cool sunny day. We left the summit just as the clouds were rolling in. This mountain was really cool. Starting to notice how different the terrain is everywhere in comparison to each other. Many cacti. I always loved cacti. Now we started heading north to Oklahoma, through Lubbock and Amarillo and into Boise City, OK. we camped at Black Mesa National Park in a cow pasture and i stepped on a tarantula and we saw a cow skull and tumbleweeds.
Aug. 14
Bushwacked up Black Mesa from 7:15 to 10:15 (8 mi., 5oo ft. elev. gain) in hopes of finding rattlesnakes, which is what this area is famous for, but we found none such serpents. Then we drove up to Kansas through Elkhart, Sharon Springs and Weskan. We drove to the highpoint, Mount Sunflower, on a partly sunny day and took a couple pictures. This one is really pretty, rolling scenery of sunflower and grain fields. The highpoint had a sunflower made out of railroad spikes too, which was awesome. Then we kept driving north through the NE corner of Colorado into Nebraska and found a ghetto place to camp under a huge radio tower because aparently we wanted to microwave our brains while we slept.
Aug. 15
Drove to Panorama Point, Nebraska's disa-high-point-ment, on a foggy morning. Then we drove over to Cheyenne, Wyoming and straight down to Fort Collins, CO and stopped at Colorado State Univ., Neal's old school, and pooped in the nice bathrooms and used the internet and charged camera and cell phone batteries. Then we drove East through Rocky Mountain National Park to waste time and catch some scenery before we drove back to Denver to pick up the 3rd and last member of our party flyin in. We saw elk and stuff. then we drove through Granby, CO on the way back to Denver. we got there an hour early so we drove to a house farm (of which there are plenty popping up all over the greater Denver area, to our demise) and cooked on our stove some rice-a-roni in the yard until the sprinklers turned on under our asses. Got to the airport and Mike got in, but his bags didnt (*recall the forshadowing. it is now understood) so we waited in the horrible-looking ciricus tent Denver airport for 4 more hours for his bags until midnight, putting us behind a day. fuck airlines. drove to the Wyoming border and camped at a rest stop.
Aug. 16
Continued west through Laramie, WY to Rock Springs and up to Pinedale. Cloudy and rainy so we got to the head of our trek at 4pm and just camped. I finished reading Hard Times at this juncture, which was very prudent.
Aug. 17
Weather kept blowing loads on us and more thunderstorms were predicted for the next 3 days, and considering this hike was 32 miles and 2 1/2 days long, we didnt want to be soaked and tent-ridden and chance not summiting bc of too much snow up high, after lots of work getting there, so we decided to ditch the Wyoming highpoint and go to Idaho instead. what the hell, its only 10 hours away anyway, why not eh? So we left early and got to the Idaho highpoint trailhead at 2:30pm and decided to hike it anyway, despite the fact that youre not supposed to hike anywhere in the rockies after 12 noon because of thunderstorms. we were anxious and took our chances and set off at 3, summited Borah Peak at 6:45 after a short hailstorm, and were back down at 8:45 (3.5 mi., 4,000 ft. elev gain). This mountain was my favorite of the whole trip, it had fuckign incredible ledges and nice scenery, and we saw the sunset when we reached treeline over the far-off mountain range and over the valley that had 5 or 6 huge green crop circles on the way back down. Drove back east into the nearest town and ate at a diner called Pickles at 11pm and just crashed asleep off on some dirt road. We camped right in the middle of the road, but it looked like it wasnt used much and we were dead so we threw up the tent and hoped that thunderstorms wouldnt come and wash us away.
Aug. 18
From our campspot in Arco, ID, we drove through Rexburg and into Yellowstone National Park in NW Wyoming. Spent the whole day in the park seeing geysers, buffalo, elk, waterfalls, canyons, and bubbling poop pits that smelled like shit and were all brown adn yellow bc of so much sulfer. Then we drove north into Red Lodge, Montana and stayed at a hotel for the first time on the whole trip (that mike payed for) so we could organize our packs for the long montana hike and so i could get a freakin shower.
Friday, August 19
Left red lodge at 6 in the morning and drove to Custer national Park to the parking area of the montana adventure. Hike in to Mystic Lake, then a constant up past Huckleberry Lake to Princess Lake, and then up past 4 Snowball Lakes to Avalanche Lake. The lakes were so blue and clear in the sun, and the pine trees and boulder-ridden valley was so amazing, it was really peaceful, and i was glad to finally be on our first overnight trip and away from the car and immersed in the montana backcountry. we camped at Avalance lake at the only possible campsite among the huge boulder fields, in this little sheltered nook of feeble pine shrubs and rocks. 8.5 mi, 3400 ft. elev gain.
Aug. 20th
Summit Day.
*a little preface of the journey on which we were about to embark. Granite Peak, Montana is considered the most technically-difficult mountain of all 50 state high points, even over Denali in Alaska. The last 600 feet elev. are near vertical, and require ropes to descend, and sometimes to ascend. only 250 people summit each year*
Left camp at 6:15 am, crossed the famous boulderfield, some the size of 2-story houses, by 7:15. Mike turned around at about 8 because he was sick with something and didnt have any energy, so it was just me and Neal. We got to the snowfield and put our krampons on and were at the ridge by 9:15. We followed the ridge up to the snowbridge, and it is here, at 10am, when the fun began. from here on there were so many steep routes and sketchy chutes that you had to be real careful and it just took forever. We got to the main Notch (12,500 ft) at noon and headed up the toughest part towards the Keyhole (12,750). me and Neal finally summitted at 1:30, or somewhere around then, just realizing that we free-climbed the entire damn thing. but there were good handholds the whole time, and there was a good route, once you found it. Then we repelled down at 7 different spots of approx. 500 ft. all in all. back across the snowbridge and to the snowfield and we self-arrested down the whole thing and were at the bottom in 10 minutes, which took us over and hour to climb up earlier in the morning. that was wicked fun. we got back into camp at 7:15 so dead tired and thirsty, we were way too dehydrated all day. It was a hot sunny day and we had amazing views of the other mountains and lakes. 4 mi, approx. 3,000 ft. elev gain, 13 hours. definitely the hardest mountain ive done, and it would probably be my favorite if it wasnt so sketchy on top, which i guess in a way is fun. It was Neal's second time back here, he turned around the first time he came. So its really awesome that we got this one and nothing went wrong.
Aug. 21
packed up camp and left at 8am and hiked down and out, getting to the car at 12:50pm. another hot, nice day, which made us really thirsty and we were filtering water at every damn brook. Drove east through Abserokee, Billings and Miles City and into North Dakota to Bowman, where we drove in and camped at the base of the ND highpoint.
Aug. 22
Hiked the easy north dakota highpoint, White Butte, from 5:30 am - 6am and watched the red sun rise over the plains. 1 mi., 400 ft. elev gain woooo hoo. headed south (of course we filled up for gas at the Kum & Go gas station) and into south dakota. it was windy and sunny, and we stopped at the Geographical Center of the US, which was rather interesting. Went through Newell to Rapid City and saw Mount Rushmore. Then we hiked Harney Peak in 2 hours (from 230-430 i think, i didnt write it down) and went swimming in Sylvan Lake and washed off a bit, and it was really refreshing and in an awesome spot. There were these huge rocks in the middle of the lake, only they werent sharp and jagged but, like folded lava blobs...more round and really cool looking. Then we drove south to Newcastle Wyoming, stopping in for a glimpse of Jewel Caves National Park just because it was there and its awesome. Drove all the way to Denver and returned our now-9,900-mile rental car and flew home.
This trip was really crazy, and I am really glad I did it. I got 9 more highpoints, and i saw 9 National Parks. Hopefully there will be many more to come, seeing how i only have 15 highpoints total now. The best part of highpointing is definitely seeing the country as you pass between peaks, it really opens your mind as to how much is out there even within our own country. It makes me not hate the US so much.
I threw in some random pictures below of each of the highpoints. I should have all 300+ of the pictures I took up on a webshots account, once i finally buy one and set it up. I will probably post a link to those at some point, hopoefully soon.
new mex - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=44787&object_id=287&type=mountain&mountain_id=287&route_id=
tex-ass - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl/photo_id/62958/mountain_id/2350/object_id/2350/type/mountain
oklahomo - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=57576&object_id=2310&type=mountain&mountain_id=2310&route_id=
kans-ass - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=142599&object_id=2798&type=mountain&mountain_id=2798&route_id=
nebrasska - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=76619&object_id=2309&type=mountain&mountain_id=2309&route_id=
udaho - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=85068&object_id=4&type=mountain&mountain_id=4&route_id=
montanus - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=2583&object_id=57&type=mountain&mountain_id=57&route_id=
north dakotee - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=57461&object_id=2301&type=mountain&mountain_id=2301&route_id=
south dakoter - http://www.summitpost.org/mountains/photo_link.pl?photo_id=6898&object_id=378&type=mountain&mountain_id=378&route_id=
when i got home i went to my dads for a couple days, and then i came back up to the lake to relax for a couple days, and now I am at home because i packed all my crap in the horse trailer once again. leaving for boston in 2 days, hopefully going back up to the lake tomorrow one last time before we leave. got to go waterskiing, and my mom has been cooking me everything bc she is sad bc emmy just went to college and now she's alone with mike. we just watched iron chef and the mtv awards together. i hope nobody read that whole thing. im glad i have an account of it now, though. possible upcoming trips for the year: Minnesota in Oct, Lousiana, Missouri, Arkansas and Alabama in Jan/Feb/March, Hawaii in April, Denali in May (slight chance), World Cup in Germania and Italy in June. would be nice to have people to go with....
hasta luego