Outdoor Travel Geek

Month: May 2011

  • random memorial weekend

    At the beginning of the week I had no clue what I would be doing for Memorial Day weekend. The Memorial Day holiday falls on a Monday this year, and since I am off on Fridays I had a four day weekend but no plans whatsoever for it. And then, randomly, the weekend sort of…

  • expensive rides

    expensive rides

    Today was an expensive day. It started off with a trip to the car dealer. My car was due for its 60k service. Sixty thousand miles. Gosh that’s a lot of miles for a three year old car. But I knew when I bought the car that I would be using it a lot. I…

  • strawberry fields forever

    For the past few years I’ve made it my goal to try to bike at least three century rides per year. In addition to that goal, my overarching goal for my century rides this year is to complete the 100 mile courses for all the rides that I have done the shorter courses for in…

  • trail daze

    On Saturday I went to a workday at Christian Encounter Ministries with a few people from DCCC. According to their website, CEM is a ministry for youth who are dealing with anger, depression, abandonment and youth. It’s located on a large ranch in the Sierra foothills. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of work…

  • big lens, small zoo

    I was pretty bummed out that I didn’t get to experience the shuttle launch. I had even rented a humongous lens so that I could take pictures of the launch. Since I didn’t get to use the lens for the launch, I decided to go to the Sacramento zoo and take pictures of animals there.…