Outdoor Travel Geek

Month: June 2011

  • hanging around

    hanging around

    The weekend started out on a down note. I went into San Francisco to attend my friend Brian’s grandmother’s funeral and be a pallbearer. Interestingly enough, I’ve been a pallbearer as many times as I’ve been a groomsman now. To be honest, I’m not a big fan of being either– I’m mostly opposed to wearing…

  • epitome of stupidity

    epitome of stupidity

    Sometimes I get some stupid ideas. This was one of them. Luckily I have friends who can stoop to my level of stupidity. Our original plan was to start at the bike bridge in Winters and float to the graffiti bridge at the end of Davis. But we found that the water was too slow…

  • the list

    Wow can you believe the year is already almost half over? This year is sort of a symbolic year for me in that it’s the last year that I can call myself a twenty something year old. There’s a sort of stigma related with turning thirty– saying you’re in your early thirties for some reason…