Vacations and interesting work trips
I was lucky enough to get invited to come to Maui and stay with Jeff and Patty Aubery at a property they built called the Jewel of Kahana. It’s a huge house on a half acre oceanfront lot, outfitted with the latest technology, and absolutely stunning. Two floors with lower walls that retract completely, leaving the entire house open.
Shoreline Park (on the Mesa) in Santa Barbara for Sunsets.
This year was quite unplanned compared to our usual trips. With both Chip and I wondering what the job market would bring us, we didn’t really want to go too far.
So… Summit county it was. We rented a nice condo in the “Bill’s Ranch” area of Frisco, that would allow us get to many different ski areas, and bring Drew (Chip’s son) with us this year.
Way back in April or May, Chip and Joanne sent out a note saying to reserve the weekend of July 12th and 13th for a camping trip to Winfield Colorado. As a group, we’ve stayed in this location a number of times before. There’s a number of large places to set up group camping, an outhouse for the people who prefer not to use the great outdoors. My only complaint: I’m going to have to buy a camper. I’m getting too old (and/or lazy?) to have to crawl in and out of a tent!!!? I’ll use the excuse of “I hate setting up a tent in the rainâ€â€¦ Yeah, that’s what I’ll do.
A photo excursion to Canyonlands National Park / Dead Horse Point State Park.
About a year ago, Gregg mentioned that our photography group needed to do a photo trip to Canyonlands and Arches National Park. Finally, we decided to just pick a weekend, and Presidents Day weekend seemed like a good time since everybody usually skis that weekend. We got very lucky in that it snowed quite a bit the Wednesday before we got there, so we had the combination of red rock, white snow and blue sky. Very patriotic! It would have been great to be there for the full lunar eclipse this week, but maybe in 2010 for the next one… 🙂
Well, another “event” made the news while I “was in town”. I was out in San Jose last week to do some work for BAE Systems, and was sitting in the hotel when the building started shaking pretty good. Not enough to knock much down (a couple things fell, but it wasn’t too bad). Pretty surprising, and pretty quickly over.
Most people who know me know that I sign emails, letters, and other notes with my initials : SRP. Little did I know they’d name an entire company after me.
