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| Mon, 05-03-2004 - 1:48am |
I live in Western Washington State and I was driving to my sister's house the other day and saw Mt Rainier in all its glory and do you know what I thought?? I thought, "I should climb that" !!!!
What?? I have NEVER had any desire to climb a mountain...but for some reason, I do now. maybe because I feel like I could do anything right now?? I don't know. But it really seems like something I could do one day in the not so distant future. In fact, I am looking in to what I need to do to train for a climb like that...and there's a 50 mile hike I'd like to do around the base of another local mountain. One day, one day...lol
I just feel really empowered lately and climbing a 14,000+ foot peak seems not so impossible...lol. I thnk I'm going mad...rofl.
It's just strange to me that I thought that and didn't say, "you're crazy. You can't do that"...I guess my self-confidence is back! :o) woo hoo!
So anyone else have these kinds of thoughts or aspirations??
Sarah

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Erin
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Way to grab the bull by the horns, honey! As Kyle would say, 'go big or go home'.
Pack an extra chute for your huge brass balls, too!
Amy
Well, I walked out of the airport and was knocked over backwards by the hot air. literally. I fell over my suitcase and laid there on the pavement for a moment....
BUT - it is SO DRY. Like dessicate dry. One day I hiked for 2 hours through the Desert Botanical Gardens (NOT the place to trip and fall-it's all cactus), then walked on the bike path thru Papago Park to the Phoenix Zoo, walked around there for 3 hours, saw NO animals (they ain't stupid - they sleep during the day)and then went back to hotel. walked a mile each way to go to dinner. I calculated it and I hiked over SEVEN miles that day in 118 degrees, and YEAH I was hot, but could NEVER have done that in NH because of the humidity. I spent the evening after dinner floating in the pool with a Corona with lime and fell asleep. IN THE POOL. I woke up because my beer tipped over onto my crotch and it startled me so badly I sat up really fast and flipped right off my floatie.
I think I have two goals for physical activity..be able to do a full backflip on the snowboard and nail the landing with a little more finesse, and get more comfortable taking stadium-level jumps on the horse without second guessing myself. (For those of you who don't ride, imagine sitting on an animal who's back is taller than your head and taking it over a five foot fence. How high are we? 9, 10 feet off the ground?)
Amy
Amy
Not a cloud in the sky, and not too hot!
Everything's too expensive though.
I did a bit of shopping, but went to the Botanical Gardens, a movie, shopped in Borders (OF COURSE)and hung out with a very wacky group of people at Rula Bula, an Irish pub. The patrons, bartender and I played a crazy bar game involving beer coasters and such a good time, I bought a t-shirt from the bar and had everyone sign it with a message. I took some pictures and they let me climb to a high spot so I could ge the whole bar and all 20 people in it, all raising their drinks. That is one of my favorite picures from my trip.
We are leaving Monday morning to go back for a week, and staying in Scottsdale. I can't wait.
Somehow "magical" isn't the word I'd use to describe downtown during the riots. I wasn't there, obviously, but it certainly looked scarey on television from out-of-State. One thing we always did at Christmas was go over to Candy Cane Lane in the U-District. As you may know, the homeowners association there has the entire street, all the houses, decorated and they hand out candy canes, cocoa, and have the Dickens carolers. I could never be in a bad mood around the holidays with that going on. And the stores downtown (even with the new mall taking up space...okay, it's not new anymore), it was just my favorite way to spend a Saturday.
Forte
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