skp and I walked up mt. wittenberg at point reyes this weekend. It's the highest point there, and we got a few great views of the area. I wish we would have been a little closer to the water, though, it was hot.
I took a few pictures.
If you couldn't guess, I'm a big fan of REI stores. They sell outdoor related gear like backpacks, camping stuff, shoes, etc. They opened up a new store a little closer to me this weekend (in corte madera), so I had to check it out. I uttered the famous last words before we left, "I don't really need anything." I ended up buying a bike. doh! Evil credit cards.
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With gas prices as high as they are (and my car needing as much work as it needs), the bike should pay for itself by the end of the summer. (how's that for rationalization?)
shew! Here are some pictures from our trip. Yosemite is an amazing spectacle. You could spend months hiking there without walking on the same trail. I hiked about 30 miles in the three days we were there. The elevation changes are a bit more extreme than I'm used to, but managed them better than I expected. I'm already planning a trip back! :)
skp on the mist trail
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You can track all of the flights going to and from San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose in real time at this site. As you mouse over each plane it gives the altitude. Clicking on a plane will let you "track" it; giving continuous altitude readings until it's out of the area. There's a ten minute lag on the data for security reasons.
skp and I just got back from Yosemite. I have about a million pictures to be developed, organize, and get online. I took a few digital pictures the first day, here's one:
Someday we will all be wireless. And the future may be soon here in Sebastopol.
It's very quiet. A little too quiet.
I saw the movie and I read the book
But when it happened to me
I sure was glad I had what it took
To get away.
But when it happened to me
I sure was glad I had what it took
To get away.
- Neil Young, Sedan Delivery
this last weekend I finally climbed that mountain. It wasn't so much a climb as a vigorous (and hot!) walk up 2,400 feet. We bumped into some hangliders on one hill, and learned a little bit about thermals and how long it takes to hit the L-Z.
hang gliders perched on st. helena
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Nobel lectures: Japan, the Beautiful and Myself: "Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the 'clear heart' of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light."
"Bright, bright, and bright, bright, bright, and bright, bright. Bright and bright, bright, and bright, bright moon."
- Myoe
- Myoe