Beautiful and Dangerous

I had been thinking about Manyk’s statement that I’m always getting sick when I go away. It’s not entirely true, but it seems to be holding up for this trip in particular. After my bout with food poisoning earlier on in the week, it seems I left...

Mammoth Mountain

It is magnificent here. We got here yesterday after a pretty leisurely five-hour drive from Los Angeles. As the drive progressed, the terrain gradually turned from So-Cal valleys to desert to High Sierra mountains. The vast expanse of nothingness was impressive and...

Back in Cali

I’m here. The trip wasn’t too painful at all, aside from waking up at 3:30am. There was a 45 minute flight from Buffalo to Detroit, then an hour of sitting around. The flight from Detroit to Los Angeles was about 5 hours. Uncle Wayne picked us up from the...