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BLOGGERID: 3313088703277413081 -------- TITLE: Summiting Mt. Shasta AUTHOR: david DATE: 6/26/2007 05:38:00 PM ----- BODY: Last weekend, my friend Paul, most of his family, and myself went on a trek to climb Mt. Shasta. After living in Redding and seeing the mountain every day for about 16 years, I've been itching to climb it - and jumped at the chance!
The chance finally came, and we wound up making the trip. I have plenty of stories to share - too much to write right now, but in the meantime check out my flickr set of the trip. All I can say is that it was very very cold! The route up was under 20 degrees Fahrenheit, before you calculate the wind chill of the 35-40mph wind! That's cold!
We departed at 3am for the climb starting from our camp at Helen Lake (about 10,000 ft.) and summited around 8:30am. Ice axes and crampons and Clif bars, oh my!Labels: travel
BLOGGERID: 4159644323535431064 -------- TITLE: viva las vegas AUTHOR: david DATE: 6/10/2007 08:13:00 AM ----- BODY: After a successful beta launch of Movable Type 4 (which garnered 16,000 downloads in its first 24 hours), I hopped on a plane on last Friday with a final destination of Las Vegas. I came out here for the weekend to help celebrate Stassia's 21'st birthday because if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right! The first thing I noticed about Las Vegas was that there's neon bling everywhere. Just getting off the plane at McCarran International, travelers are instantly bombarded with a plethora of advertisements in the form of billboards, jumbo-trons, and flashing signs with half-naked women (and men) on them. The space between the luggage return carousels is lined with nickel and quarter slot machines. All this is a bit overwhelming after a day of work, missing a flight, waiting on standby, and being in s state of semi-conciousness at 2am. The bling escalated all the way down the strip, until I had just about enough. I think it is meant to keep you at a sanity level just above legally insane, but low enough to where you are just a money-spending zombie who needs no sleep. It's no wonder kids are having such problems with ADHD these days, it's hard not to have it! Anyway, I stayed with Jessica, Stass and her family in the Luxor - the one that looks like a pyramid. We had a blast gambling our monies away, riding 1,000 feet up into the stratoshpere, staying up all night drinking (because we can) and general debauchery in Sin City. Anyway, I'm in the airport on my way back to SF now, and dead tired. I think it's a given that if you are in Las Vegas, especially for just one weekend, there isn't much sleep to be had. 3 cheers for free WiFi at LAS. BLOGGERID: 5043856387584793949 -------- TITLE: Arkansas AUTHOR: david DATE: 1/05/2007 06:47:00 PM ----- BODY: Yup. Arkansas. Many people have called me crazy, few have doubted it, but here I find myself in the nice town of Fayetteville, Arkansas for the next 5 days. I'm visiting a friend of mine I met a few years back online who I've always wanted to meet in person. So I had some time off in January, and enough cash for a plane ticket, so I asked myself "why not?" I didn't think of any reason not to, so I did. And here I am. So incredibly random, but so incredibly cool at the same time. I flew in this morning, through Salt Lake City, Utah of all places. It was a gorgeous 19 degrees Fahrenheit outside while we were waiting to board our plane.
Anyway, just an update to let everyone know I'm alive and well in AR.
Peace.
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