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Three negligible events from today have reminded me how much I love my life situation:
1.) I was at a stoplight, playing loud music with rather R-rated lyrics. And loving it. Singing along, tapping my hands on the steering wheel, the whole bit. Next to me was a woman about my age, with two little kids [...]

Trip Pics and Such

To avoid making this a mile-long post, I’ll just hit some highlights: 

In order to deal with the mild terror I felt driving through road construction on the way up Going-to-the-Sun Road, I decided to have a little fun at one of the pull-offs near Heaven’s Peak… 

 
Yes, I made my mother climb up here. We had [...]

Missoula and Mountains and Portland, Oh my.

I think I’ve actually made it. 
For the past week, I’ve been traveling out west. WITH MY MOTHER. Yeah. The one who (fill in the blank with all sort of unflattering things I have said about her). And voluntarily, at that. A few months ago she told me she had been invited to visit her friend [...]