Man, what a road trip. I think I drove 5000 kms (not exaggerating) in the last 8 days. Man oh man is that tiring. Worse than tiring though, is it's very lonely work. By myself 24 hours a day for over a week... it really started to get to me. It's a little too much time to think for my liking. I did have some adventures though. Namely getting the truck stuck with 3 wheels off the ground in a big snow drift. Thank God for the friendly farmer a mile away who came and helped pull me out.
Anyway, I'm super glad to be home for a few days. Looks like back at it on monday, but I have a set of points around Calgary to collect, so I'm hoping I can stay around town for a couple of days before I'm back out.
K, that's it.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
How can I stay mad at you?
Home sweet home...
It was a REALLY tough transition home. The weather was kinda dreary (coulda been worse, at least it was warm). Work came on fast (then got delayed, but that's a different story), some changes in life sorta stuff. Coupled with the emotional comedown of just off an adventure and being sick for the first time in I can't remember how long. It was tough for sure. Things are smoothing out though. Getting the time to spend with Karen definitely helped out, and I've had lots of alone time to process stuff. But the kicker was definitely the skiing yesterday. It was just so great to get to the mountains, and the snow was awesome. So far it's been pretty sparse, and there were lots of rocks (I'm sorry skis!) but there was also lots of fresh snow on most of the mountain. Karen and I had a riot on Goat's Eye in the morning. I had the comedy bail in the powder in the first 5 minutes, and Karen got to know a clump of trees REALLY well. It was awesome to have someone on the same kinda level as me too. As a side note, I love watching Karen let herself be challenged on stuff that makes me think, hmm, this is tough, but still have the brains to pass off something that's a little more than she can deal with.
Anyway, all said and done it's good to be home.
It was a REALLY tough transition home. The weather was kinda dreary (coulda been worse, at least it was warm). Work came on fast (then got delayed, but that's a different story), some changes in life sorta stuff. Coupled with the emotional comedown of just off an adventure and being sick for the first time in I can't remember how long. It was tough for sure. Things are smoothing out though. Getting the time to spend with Karen definitely helped out, and I've had lots of alone time to process stuff. But the kicker was definitely the skiing yesterday. It was just so great to get to the mountains, and the snow was awesome. So far it's been pretty sparse, and there were lots of rocks (I'm sorry skis!) but there was also lots of fresh snow on most of the mountain. Karen and I had a riot on Goat's Eye in the morning. I had the comedy bail in the powder in the first 5 minutes, and Karen got to know a clump of trees REALLY well. It was awesome to have someone on the same kinda level as me too. As a side note, I love watching Karen let herself be challenged on stuff that makes me think, hmm, this is tough, but still have the brains to pass off something that's a little more than she can deal with.
Anyway, all said and done it's good to be home.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Home, bitter home
Yeah, I'm finally back. It was overall a good trip. It most certainly was not the way I would travel, but Karen said something that made a lot of sense... the trip wasn't so much for me and J as it was for mom and dad, and that's cool, I kinda wish I'd understood that a little better before we went so I coulda done more to make it extra special for them, but it was still really good. I have a feeling this will have been the last 'forced' family vacation. I'd really like to go somewhere for me soon, and with all the airmiles I have banked up, I should be able to go almost anywhere in the world at this point. Heck, I did 9 flights in 2 weeks just on this holiday alone, plus, we got stuck in tokyo (our flight was cancelled at the last minute due to a severe hydraulic leak) so we had to spend the night there, and to make up for it, Air Canada is giving everyone on the plane a bonus 20,000 aeroplan points. I'm thinking maybe Ireland, especially if Liza ends up getting married soonish, or perhaps somewhere warm and windy for a kitesurfing vacation. Or heck, back to Thailand would be alright... it's warm, it's dirt cheap if you know how to travel, and there is a tonne of cool stuff to do, like class 5 whitewater, kitesurfing and windsurfing, diving, climbing, kayaking... who knows, it's a ways off anyway.
So no rest for the wicked... on friday I'm off to work again. Now it's a fairly big project, and I will see a lot of countryside on it. I'm hoping there are enough breaks in Calgary because I think it'll take upwards of a month.
Anyway, that's it, I'm out
So no rest for the wicked... on friday I'm off to work again. Now it's a fairly big project, and I will see a lot of countryside on it. I'm hoping there are enough breaks in Calgary because I think it'll take upwards of a month.
Anyway, that's it, I'm out
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