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I have been doing a lot of traveling lately. There was Washington which you read a little about already. Then Oceanside where I took a dip with my camera while trying to fish dead beaver out of the water. Then I was without a camera for few weeks when I decided to go to Ohio. But then I needed a camera because I decided to go to the other Washington in the District of Columbia. Now I am in New York staying with a friend from Lincoln and eating excellent pizza by the slice.





I'll share some pictures and maybe go into more depth later when I get back to California.

Trip to Portland

Hello people,

Ceri has started her own blog and has been doing a lot better job than me. I added a link to her page on the right there so you can see it.

I'm going to start with some pictures from my most recent trip. First I had to get Bradley and Sunny from the airport. It was a six hours to get from Loma Linda to LAX and back. That includes waiting for two hours for Bradley and Sunny to come out of the airport.

So I guess this is what happens to you when you live in Spain for 9 months.

Bradley and Sunny flew to LAX and I was to take them to Vancouver, WA. In addition to Bradley and Sunny I took all of my stuff because I moved out of my apartment. They were good and helped me pack and clean.
It took us about 25 hours to drive from Loma Linda to Vancouver. This was because the trailer would sway back and forth if we drove faster than 50mph.

On the drive I finished my assignments for class and emailed them when I got to Vancouver. I spent a couple hours with my mom and then drove to Walla Walla to see Ceri.

Ceri and Deanna

It was April's graduation and there were a lot of Ceri's family and friends there. You can see a picture of that on Ceri's blog.
On Monday we met Bradley and Ma at Multnoma Falls. Later that day we got some ice cream with Ceri's friend Deanna. It was some good ice cream too.

Ma got a lot of ice cream for just herself but Bradley helped her finish it	Bradley and Sunny still looking goofy

On Tuesday we went to Smith Rock State Park in central Oregon. We should have gotten up earlier because we didn't start climbing until about 2:30pm. I definately want to go back sometime to finish Wherever I May Roam. It's 5 pitches and we only made it to the top of the second pitch before evening.

Bradley is on the second pitch here. It's a 5.10

Ceri at Smith Rock

Smith Rock is a really cool place to climb. There are a lot of bolted routes for those who are to poor to buy trad. They paths are very well maintained with stairs to the routes and leveled off areas for the belayers. Fences keep people away from the vegetation and on the path. I would recomend the park to climbers of any level.

Ceri's parents were staying at a resort near sisters and they came out to see the park while we were climbing. Unfortunately, Asterisk Pass to the other side were we were climbing when they arrived was more difficult than I had anticipated and they weren't able to see any of us climbing. I was impressed with my Ma for going over the pass which I would call a 5.2 or 5.3. Bradley set a an anchor and top roped her.

That evening we ate spaghetti which the Myer's were generous to offer. We camped at on a lake near Big Lake Youth Camp where Ceri worked for two summers.

Big Lake	This was Ceri's cabin

On Wednesday morning we visited Big Lake.

Then we went to the coast south of Lincoln City. We met my Aunt Lettie at the aquarium in Newport.

Ceri's grandmother has a trailer close to the beach in close to Lincoln City and we were able to stay there for a night.

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April in Loma Linda

So I read my site meter report today and discovered that some people really are visiting my site. Although not leaving any comments and probably not people that I actually know. So I’ve decided to update it for those random people and the occasional non-random person. Past I’ll start with telling you what I’ve been up to since spring break, because when I’ve tried to tell you what I will be up to soon, well it just wasn’t true. I guess I have no idea what I will be doing even a day or two in advance. My mom came to visit me for a week at the beginning of April. She brought Victor with her and he fixed the brakes and steering knuckle on the Jeep while I was at school. That was pretty nice of him. Then for the weekend we drove to Anza Barrego State Park and drove up Coyote Canyon on a rough road with my mom’s CR-V. She started to worry when it got sandy so we turned around and played in the creek for a while. We drove around the Salton Sea, saw some cool burrowing owls, and camped on the northern shore of the sea. The sea smells bad but the view is nice. The next day we drove through Joshua Tree National Park. People always say, “Now that it is a national park” but its was established in 1994, over 10 years ago, so I think we should accept it as a national park and move on. We saw a desert tortoise, a red racer snake, and a lot of cholla and Joshua trees.
Then there was some school and some wondering about my thesis project. Then I went to Camp Pendleton for a week and helped Ecorp with a project there removing exotic species of fish from the margarita estuary. I am now a te 0 comments: Post a Comment 04 April 2005 Spring Break So, I’m back for spring break and I should update my blog to let you know how it went. It was a good spring break. I went Ohio to visit Ceri. I’m glad I bought my ticket back in January because I am super poor now. Actually, I was poor then as well but now my credit card is maxed out making it difficult for me to buy anything. (Sorry about the spaceing. I can't figure it out) Here are a bunch of photos I took with some captions. After my finals on the 16th, my professor gave me a ride to the train station in San Bernardino. I was worried about missing my flight because I had to get all the way to LAX and I don't trust interstates in LA at all. People drive like their suicidal here. Everyone complains about the traffic and now believes it's their fault. I am convinced that trains and subways are the only way to get to the airport. For $6.50 I took the 1 o'clock MetroLink train from San Bernardino to downtown LA. This took about 1.5 hours. Then I took the subway from downtown to the airport. My metrolink ticket worked for the subways so I didn't have to pay anything more. Trains are so efficient I don't know why I was worried about making my flight. Then I took the free shuttle to the terminal I needed and made it all the way from San Berdo to the airport in about 2.5 hours. Ceri, picked me up in Detroit around 12:30am on the 17th and we finally made it back to her apartment around 2 in the morning. The spotted one and the striped one are brown eggs, cage free vegetarian. These are some of Ceri's friends in Bowling Green, Matt and Michelle. They wanted to paint eggs for Easter so we brought over some brown eggs. I think they turned out pretty well. Oops! They didn't all make it to the end of the night. I made sure to bring my climbing shoes with me and we went to Ceri's climbing wall twice while I was there. She was really excited to show me all the routes she does and wore me out getting me to climb one after the other. (This is Ceri's collage) I was impressed by how well Ceri was climbing, unfortunately she needs to work on her falling. She fell from the over hang onto the edge of the crash pad. Look at how happy she looks with her twisted ankle. Her bruises make a smiley face, too. 1 comments: Post a Comment Spring Break (St Olaf, IA & Minneapolis, MN) On the 25th we started towards North Dakota for Amy Tanner's (formerly known as Amy Barber) wedding. We stopped in St Olaf, IA to see my Gramma and Granddaddy Hoover. Here is the cabin where they live. There was an eagle sitting above their creek when we left on Saturday morning. We also spent a couple hours in Minneapolis on Saturday afternoon. We met up with some friends and went to some art museums. The Walker was closed for expansion so we went to the Weisman (a Frank Gehry building) and to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. After the museums we went to a Tibetan/Nepali restaurant called Everest on Grand. It's on Grand St in St. Paul. They have tasty yak dumplings. The yak are free range and grass fed of course. Another cool place in Minneapolis is Bob's Java Hut. It is a biker coffee shop. The whole front of the store opens to the outside and motorcycles are often parked out front. It also has free wireless internet. We drove around for awhile because I couldn't remember where it was. So I took a picture. 0 comments: Post a Comment Spring Break (Amy's wedding) Amy's wedding was really nice. It made me cry a little. Daniel and Scott make me feel really short, so I have to stand next to Ceri more often. On the way back we got to eat breakfast with my dad at the casino in Bettendorf. And now I'm back in Loma Linda. My apartment is down there somewhere to the left of the hospital. 0 comments: Post a Comment 13 March 2005 One week later (?) Did I say a week? How long is a week? I make promises like this because I think it will force me to actually do it, like a deadline. I guess I sort of lost track of time with finals coming up, accept in relation to spring break which is when I will see Ceri. Oh yeah! I’m going to Ohio on Wednesday. I guess that was the main point of my blog, to tell you all where I’m at and where I’m going. To tell the truth I don’t know where I’m going. I still haven’t found a project and it makes me wonder why I’m borrowing so much money and feeling so poor. I have a final proposal due for a class tomorrow which is supposed to be something I would present to my committee. Loma Linda is a good school I think. The Department of Earth and Biological Sciences is quite small and comes with the usual advantages and disadvantages. Advantages are; Fellow students are friendly and supportive. Professors are understanding and willing to help when asked. Classes are in depth, interesting and small, about 6 per class. Small classes are really nice for discussions (actually four is optimum, that’s what I learned in sociobiology.) Loma Linda requires a lot of class hours to graduate compared to other schools. Which brings us to disadvantages; Resources are limited. They don’t offer very many classes. I have basically three to choose from for next quarter. Being a medical school, of course they subscribe to a lot of medical type journals, not nearly as many ecology and biology journals. I’ll probably have to find at least some of my own funding through grant proposals. The city or Loma Linda isn’t very nice. It’s hardly a city really, pretty much a lot of houses and a hospital/school. I would like to fix my car so I can go see some other parts of California. I went bouldering at Joshua Tree yesterday with some friends. That was fun. The air was a lot cleaner. Ethan did a V8 on the ceiling of cave that was flippin’ cool. I forgot my camera but I’m sure I’ll go back and take pictures later. I haven’t climbed seriously for 10 months or so and have gotten somewhat out of shape since I ran the Lincoln Marathon. I could tell extra weight, less endurance and conditioning was effecting me. Ceri is going to pass me up since she has been climbing twice a week and I climb about, oh, once every 3-4 months. I better be careful or she is going to beat me up, she’s all buff now. I’ll be spending the majority of my spring break in Ohio but me and Ceri will take a trip to Jamestown, North Dakota for Amy Barbers wedding on the 27th. We are going to stop at my Grandparents on Friday night, then spend some time in Minneapolis on Saturday afternoon/evening. Then I’m flying back to LAX from Detroit on Tuesday the 29th. That’s all I can share for now. Keep bugging me and I’ll try to post more often. I’ll probably have time over spring break to post some pictures and offer more thought provoking opinions. 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