Thursday, Sept 9th. We woke up in the Guadalupe Mountains, again. An awesome sight, everytime. We had decided the previous night that we would hike one of the crazy trails around the montains and surrounding area.
Naturally, we picked El Capitan trail. 11 miles of hiking goodness. We had read that the total time was anywhere [...]
Archive for September, 2004
Wednesday, September 8th. We woke up at our campsite, and marveled yet again at the breathtaking beauty of the Gaudalupe Mountains.
This is the day we went to Carlsbad Caverns. It was a relatively short drive away from teh campsite, and we arrived around 10. We walked through the natural entrance to the cave, and [...]
Tuesday the 7th: this now brings us officially to a working stiff weekday. The trip thus far has been amazing, over the top awesome. We woke up at the B&B, had an amazing breakfast courtesy of Marlene and Abi. It was the first time I had ever had parfait, and it was delightful. Who knew [...]
Monday September 6th. Today we tackle a wine festival. The venue was simply stated as the Southwest New Mexico Fairgrounds.
We drove 2 hours south on I-25, to the middle of nowhere. Actually, it was the large patch of nothingness right next to the middle of nowhere. And sure enough, there, in the vast expanse [...]
Sunday morning! We woke up and started driving. again. This time, destination: Gila National Forest Scorpion Camground.
A short drive from scorpion, there’s a trail-head leading to publicly available hot springs. We walked about a half mile through pretty much invisible trail to the hot springs. We had to cross a river, twice. The directions [...]
we woke up Saturday the 4th kinda early-ish, and started the crazy chain of events leading up to the top of a mountain in Gila National Forest for camping that evening. We sped over to the local Smith’s grocery store, and bought $99 worth of groceries. Included in that price were two bottles of $5.99 [...]
So we flew into Albuquerque the evening of friday the 3rd. the flights were uneventful. we were tired from travelling for the past 7 hours or so, and just wanted to get our rental and get to the hotel. enterprise informed us that they hadn’t received their shipment yet, and they had to give us [...]
so, as you can see from my to-do list below, i\’m looking for some parts for my laptop, affectionately named crichton.
he needs a battery or two, a new harddrive, a wireless G card so i can walk around the apartment with him, and he optionally needs a replacement CPU.
i think an upgrade from 500 MHz [...]
tonight for dinner: 2 peanut butter sandwiches, a peanut butter granola bar, and 3 glasses of yellow tail cabernet sauvingon. am i classy or what?
this is stuff i should probably get done before i go to new mexico tomorrow. 9 days away from home! just me and meg! ok go:
* finish the dishes
* ask lauren to water my plants
* get rechargeable AA batteries ($45 for charger and 8 AA\’s)
* call poppop c.
* pack clothes
[...]
