time reversal

I haven’t really posted about this because it felt awkward and weird, especially when things were still up in the air. But now that I’ve signed on the dotted line, gotten a job lined up, and am counting down the days until I leave I figured it was time to spend a few moments and [...]

Dave came out to California this weekend to give a talk at Berkeley (and visit me). He flew in really late Friday night, so we had a rather late start on adventures Saturday morning. First on the agenda (after a breakfast of blueberry pancakes and smoothies) was to fix up a bike that Martin had [...]

Every Tuesday is Pie Day, and I have pie for breakfast. The Walnut Cafe offers at least five different kinds for 2.50 a slice on Pie Day. It’s pretty much the highlight of my week. Today I had apple, but peach-blueberry is my favorite.
How did this get started? I was eating [...]

After a morning in the snow, Matthias and I decided it was time to see a different part of the park. In this vein we headed to the rangers station and got advice on the southwest desert area. We only had a few hours of daylight by the time we left the rangers station, so [...]

On our drive into Zion, we stopped at the rangers station to get advice on trails and weather conditions. Initially, we had planned to do a 40 mile trip from Lee’s Pass in the northwest part of the park to Angels’s Landing, but the middle region of the hike was covered in three feet of [...]

Over the past few months, I had developed my first case of cabin fever and desperately needed to go somewhere beautiful. I originally planned to go hiking somewhere in Appalachia but decided that more drastic measures were required. My friend Matthias (exchange student from Germany here for a year to get a Masters and finish [...]