I told Steve I needed beach time, so we went to Barbados. I suppose we could have gone to Florida, or the Georgia coast, but when the time is right, and the funds are available, go big or go home, I guess. I posted and tagged my pictures on flickr. There’s something for everyone! Adventure hikes through the jungle, beaches, colorful homes…
Steve and I were lucky enough to be able to spend a few weeks in Colorado. We had work scheduled in Boulder/Golden, Laramie and Breckenridge, so we took advantage of our time close to home to visit with friends and family, ride in our favorite spots and refuel before taking the Subie out for another long spin. So we’re back on the road again now, in the midst of a five-week work stint prior to our month-long vacation. Last week we were in Santa Fe, NM, this weekend it’s Flagstaff, AZ, then it’s Southwestern Colorado, Park City and finally Driggs, ID (very close to Jackson, WY). It’s a hard life, but someone’s got to do it! We feel at home in the Rocky Mountains, and the Southwest is one of our favorite places to explore. We’re going on as many adventures as possible in our days off and getting a
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I have been using Flickr to post my pictures from our travels. I decided to categorize my pictures into “collections” by state – so far, there’s a category for Utah, Arizona, Texas and Nevada. Each state, as a category, has individual albums for each place visited. For example, the Arizona category has five albums: Black Canyon Trail Riding, Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Sonoran Desert Museum, South Mountain Trail Riding. I don’t take pictures everywhere we go, but I try to at least. I also don’t post ALL of the pictures that I take, as I decided to focus on quality over quantity. I find it overbearing to click through hundreds of pictures, rather than a tightly edited album. I still working on the editing part, but try to keep each album down to 50 or fewer pictures. Below is a gallery of my new album from Alta, featuring
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We’ve been on the road for three weeks now! It feels an eternity in all the good ways. Here are the wonderful corners of our great nation that we’ve set foot in over the past three weeks: View Larger Map Some of the places we expect to find ourselves over the next few months include (in this order): Bentonville, Arkansas Lake Meredith, Texas Kansas City, Missouri Salida, Colorado Omaha, Nebraska Marseilles, Illinois Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Augusta, Georgia New River Gorge, West Virginia Raystown Lake, Pennsylvnia Indianapolis, Indiana Happy travels to us!
Here are pictures of our home sweet home, the IMBAru. Subaru is kind enough to sponsor our education and advocacy work, and supplies the Crews with a brand new Outback wagon. We use every possible nook in there – all 188.2 inches long, 71.7 inches wide and 65.7 inches high!
On Friday January 22, we made our way from Boulder City, NV to Prescott, AZ for meetings and trainings with mountain bike enthusiasts and advocates. We rolled up to Prescott in time for its third worst storm ever, which meant about a foot of slushy snow, icy roads, constant flurries and high winds. We didn’t get to experience any of the weather, save for rain, until about four hours into our trip, as most of the drive took us through the Mojave Desert – a unique ecosystem in the Southwest rich with Joshua Trees, Saguaro Cacti and polished rock formations. However, we hit wintry conditions coming through the Prescott National Forest into Prescott. You can tell in these pictures, though, that the clouds were out in full force throughout the whole trip and headed to higher ground with snow. I experimented with some drive-by photo shooting out of our moving
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In Outside Magazine or National Geographic Traveler, do you ever read about dream jobs? Or the “job of a lifetime?” Welcome to my new world. And welcome Steve, too! The International Mountain Bicycling Organization (IMBA) recently hired us as part of a team: we’re the new IMBA Trail Care Crew. Our duties include promoting mountain biking advocacy, training local mountain bike clubs and volunteers on sustainable trail building and design both in the classroom and in the field, educating bikers on how to establish and operate a club, meeting with land managers and other decision makers to discuss and help solve trail management challenges, and in general, improving mountain biking experiences for all users across North America. It’s the perfect time in our lives to be hitting the road for a good cause, and we couldn’t be more excited. We spent two solid weeks packing up our home, moving furniture
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November 17? It feels like November 30. Never ending month. Might be time to get out of dodge, do something new! Here’s the perfect soundtrack. Ahora: Vampire Weekend, Walcott
If you’d like to know what I was doing between September 13 and September 27, 2009, think sand, scuba and lots of other things that start with ‘s.’ Sun, seashells, soft cover books, etc. We traveled to Fiji for our honeymoon, which went a bit like this: – Arrive at LAX, almost don’t board the plane to Fiji because of passport “complications” – One week on the island of Yaqeta (pronounced Yang-etta) in the Yasawa Group in NW Fiji, scuba, kayaking, lounging, sun, rain, 5-star food & drink, almost capsizing in a minuscule fishing boat during a torrential storm, music, walking around the island, periodic adventures. We stayed at the Navutu Stars Resort Fiji. – One week on the island of Taveuni (also known as the “Garden Island”) in NE Fiji, small aircrafts, hiking, kayaking, more reading, chai, Indo-Fijian cuisine, more scuba, sharks, sea snakes, sunsets, day-long taxi adventures with
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I’m running two marathons this year. I’ve never run a marathon, so I might be getting ahead of myself. At about 5 weeks into my training, I can safely say that I need to start lifting weights and stretching more, in order to keep my knees up to speed with the miles I’m putting in. It’s not only a physical challenge, but a moral, psychological, and social one. We’ll see how this turns out, but all in all, I am enjoying it.
