A Work in Progress

Nine miles battling black flies finally becomes worth it.

 Oh, America.

The Niagara River

This afternoon I am headed to the northeast kingdom and the remaining pics of the day will likely not be posted until June.  Hope you'll survive the anticipation.  So, until then, imagine camping! and waterfalls! and mountains! and hiking! and miscellanea! Hopefully they'll be worth the wait.

So, firetrucks make for good subjects. 

a damn fine breakfast

...ride bikes.

contents of a fire engine

fancy new stat packs, jealous? 

I warned you about the excessive bike pictures.  Took me ages to clean. 

Possibly the most awesomely fantastic bike on the trail, no, in the whole state, no, country, no, planet. James Starley would be proud. Most definitely the coolest, most awesomely fantastic sweetest gift in the history of gift giving. And it rips.

Sorry, the pics have gotten a little messed up.  Well, I'm a day behind so far, but I've just been uninspired today.  But if I am consistantly a day behind, maybe no one will notice.  Who am I kidding, no one will notice if I am not a day behind.  Also, I kind of think I set the bar pretty high yesterday.  I pulled over on the highway, crawled over to get out of the other side of the car, then ran down a hilly, wet embankment to cut power lines out of the shot.  Then I ran back up the bank through thigh high soaking wet grass.  Totally worth it.  And really, compared to that, a picture of some CPR mannequins from my PALS refresher today would just be disappointing.  Mostly for me. Outside of that, I've gotten some good rides in recently, despite the rain.  Well, a couple of days ago, I made it 18 miles before I was drenched and had to seek refuge at a local school to wait out the torrential downpour.  Luckily, I did stop, but I wa...

Maybe National Geographic is right.

I have a rose bush.  Try to contain your excitement

Didn't quite make it home without getting drenched. 

More post rain stuff.

Ah, rural paradise from the bike. 

Some giant plant that sprung up in the garden.  Looks cool after the rain. 

4 am boot portrait.  Late half because of blogger, half because of me. 

Check out this dinosaur!  Actually, I kind of like it, I think it only weighs like 20lbs as opposed to the 'fancy' motorized one we actually use.