• Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    Here we are now

    May 8, 2004 - By 

    Okay, this was worth the scary adventure that got me to this point. This is Cliff Palace, most famous of Mesa Verde’s ruins. It’s reached by what I suspect is a deliberately difficult approach path consisting of metal stairs going down, then funky handcut steps in the stone set in narrow rock channel, then by climbing a ten-foot ladder. These physical obstacles overcome, the reward is being able to stand where people lived 800 years ago and wonder where they went and why they left. The archeologists are working out the whys and wheres now; it appears they migrated south…

  • Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    Hike! Hike! Hike!

    May 4, 2004 - By 

    I’d add photos now, but don’t have time to crop them down to a manageable size to upload. We’ve hiked a lot in the past couple of days; yesterday we headed to the Bear Lake trailhead in Rocky Mountain National Park and hiked to Alberta Falls, where we met a couple that were setting up a virtual geocache. We chatted with them about that for a while, then tried to go on to Mills Lake, but there was too much snow on the trail. As it was the trail was mostly snowcovered to Alberta, so we were pooped and called…

  • Moblog

    Where the Hell is my Window Seat?

    May 4, 2004 - By 

    CTG is unhappy with his seating arrangements, and doesn’t get to go out on hikes, either. He gets to stay back in the room when we go out for gourmet meals, too. Not too happy a camper is Crash Test Goofy, but then he’s only along for the ride. Sending pictures to the blog is interesting, but not easy to do without a few more things set up in advance. Also, damn Verizon and their stupid added advertising text. That’s the first thing that’s going to get macroed out of existence as soon as I get some decent access. Tonight…

  • Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    Estes Park, CO Romantic Riversong

    May 3, 2004 - By 

    Big Horseshoe/Fall River Road 40.24N 105.38W 8671ft What an incredible day — we had a great drive in from Grand Island and made good time, in spite of getting off I-76 too soon and taking an extra 10 miles on the 2-lane highway. We listened to :NPR again on various public radio stations. When they faded, started to repeat or played yesterday’s programs, we stuck CDs in the player — the RAV doesn’t have one and the Silver Beast does, so that was a treat. We got into Estes Park at 12:30 or 1:00pm — much higher average speeds were…

  • Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    And we’re off

    May 1, 2004 - By 

    We’re moving. Tonight we’re in Grand Island NE which was probably an important stop on the pioneer trail, but now it’s the junction of two highways, a lot of hotels, and a river. We started late this morning (me, my bad, didn’t get much done last night and dinked around blogging). But anyway, we’re on the road and think we’ll arrive in Estes Park tomorrow.

  • Moblog

    Crash Test Goofy: The Adventure Begins

    April 30, 2004 - By 

    Road Trip! Crash Test Goofy says goodbye to his pal MooPunk before leaving for two weeks on the road. CTG will not be driving on this trip because his license was suspended long ago, because frankly his record was shockingly bad. Strangely, no one was ever hurt. Crash Test Goofy will try to send photos of himself from the road, possibly with latitude and longitude information and short, snappy updates. Okay, that was interesting. My first attempt at getting the moblog to work, and it sent to the main entry. I thought when I set it up that it would…

  • Childfreedom

    Let them eat cake

    April 29, 2004 - By 

    And finally, because I was fooling around with Elements just now, here’s the diaper cake that my niece and sister took to a baby shower a few weeks ago when we were visiting in March. I’m sorry, I’m just really glad to be childfree when I consider that people actually spend time and creativity and thinking up gifts like this… and giving them. I mean, really. Ewww. On one level, it’s really cute and quite pretty, and and a clever way to give a practical gift. On another, let’s all dress up the poop and pretend it doesn’t stink. It’s…

  • Photos and Shutterblogs

    Gallery Opening

    April 29, 2004 - By 

    Hey, it’s Last Thursday, let’s go to the Gallery Opening! When I lived in Seattle, First Thursdays of the month were the night people went downtown and went to the art galleries, which were open late and full of crowds looking at the latest works of art, photographs, and blown glass. The artists would be standing there, ready to chat with anyone who wandered up, with a plastic glass of wine in hand. The gallery openings were almost always free and often very crowded, and they were great ways to get out and about for very little money. It was…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Do not taunt Happy Patriot Act

    April 29, 2004 - By 

    Boing Boing: Patriot Act designed to protect Patriot Act by preventing challenges to it to be made public Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A17 The American Civil Liberties Union disclosed yesterday that it filed a lawsuit three weeks ago challenging the FBI’s methods of obtaining many business records, but the group was barred from revealing even the existence of the case until now. The lawsuit was filed April 6 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, but the case was kept under seal to avoid…