Finally forcing myself to catch up with my LJ since I’ve spent the day being lazy-productive by getting all my pictures from all my trips finally organized and edited. I cannot believe September is almost over. Where the hell does time go? Continue Reading
No summer is complete without a Thelma and Louise-style road trip. From SF, we flew to Vegas. Rented a car (a fiasco, but we ended up with a PT Cruiser with a sunroof instead of our original ghetto ride), drove to the Grand Canyon, hiked around, camped (we had about 2 hrs of sleep at this point), woke up to watch the sunrise, bypassed the North Rim (forest fire) and then camped at Zion National Park in Utah. Then it was back to Vegas. Some of these pictures made it into the photo album, some didn’t. So I’m posting the extras here.
Watching the sunset (or what sun we could see, anyway) in the Grand Canyon
I have been putting off writing about this entry for a long time because there are some parts of this day that I don’t exactly want to recall in detail. It’s the yin and the yang, I suppose, and while I didn’t expect the “perfect” trip, I didn’t expect this either… Costa Rican roads are shit. At one of the tours I overheard 2 old ladies talking about how they spent over 5 hours on the road from Monteverde to La Fortuna by jeep. Hell if I was going to take a bus. Fortunately, there are other options. 1 is jeep – boat – jeep. The other is horse – boat – jeep. Guess which one I did? Continue Reading
Me and C do Yosemite
Memorial Day weekend Yosemite = more pictures soon to come.
(This is from our hike to Upper Yosemite Falls)