Engagement

"Whitney, will you marry me?"

(post is a few days late, sorry!).

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West Coast

"Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible." -Walter Cronkite
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California Coffee

Outside the Guerilla Cafe in Berkeley. My latte came in a bowl - amazing.

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Pier 39, San Fran.

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Boise City, Okla.

For real:

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Berkeley

"I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life." -Oscar Wilde
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Merry Christmas

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Hot hot hot

Death Valley yesterday ... sunny and 70 degrees = just about perfect!

Happy Christmas Eve :)

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Rocky

"Do you have any petrified wood or rocks in the vehicle?" -the park ranger questions us upon entry to the Petrified Forest National Park.
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Red Rocks Today

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been." -Diane Arbus
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Overload

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." -Benjamin Disraeli.

Vegas?!
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Ruffled Feathers

Sign outside our motel room in Elkhart, Kan. Amazing.

Santa Fe tomorrow!

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Go West

"Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations." -George Santayana

...and so the Great Road Trip adventures begin :)
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Dreaming

"Together we will outsleep the night." -Insomniac by Galway Kinnell (as heard on the Writer's Almanac; full text here).

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Lessons in Learning

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." -Thomas Huxley
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Staying Cool on Labor Day

The Heart of America marathon makes another appearance in Runner's World magazine (Jan '10 issue) ... although I have to say, about 15 seconds in the ice bath was more than enough for me.

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Hearing Voices

Handed to me in a trail-side parking lot after a run:

Must've been desperate for business...

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Final Days

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." -Albert Einstein

One week left in the semester...
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Home

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Craigslist

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Show Me the Money

"He missed his opportunity for a sugar momma." -a friend comments on his brother failing to date a doctoral student.
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Winter Weather

"It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway." -Teilhard de Chardin, French geologist. Well, it's definitely cold here in Missouri.
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Issues

Good grief, let it go, Hal.
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After Life

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Job Talk

"A job's what you force yourself to pay attention to for money. With work, you don't have to force yourself. There are a lot of jobs in this country, and that's good because they keep people occupied. That's why they're called 'occupations.'" -a line from Blue Highways, by Columbian William Least Heat-Moon.
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Grammar Joke

“I know a guy who had to have part of his colon taken out. He ended up with a semicolon.” -as told by a recent interviewee (after he told me about his wife's colonoscopy...ick).
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Bells are Ringing

"May all your miles be merry." -on the Jingle Bell 5k T-shirt (happening today!). Ho ho ho.
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Injuries = No Fun

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Best Gift Ever

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They Want My Business

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Lots of Love xo

"I was poor as a church mouse... I told her, if we don't do a lot of expensive things, I could see you every day." -one of the men I interviewed for a story about Columbia couples who've been married 50+ years and who are still very much in love. Must've worked, they've been together 52 years :)
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