Woo Hoo!

Just made it up to the lake and my car got 47 mpg! Woot! Can't really beat that for a non-hybrid. Plus it was a beautiful drive. I always love coming up at sunset, the colors as you drive through the panhandle are gorgeous. Thanks Lauren for taking my shift so I could come up!

I had a lot of fun in the tri-cities too. Ate tons of raspberries and cherries and got to play with the cousins for a couple of days. Mind you that tends to mean I played with Garrett and Gage. George spent all his time not at work playing guitar hero alone in the basement. As Nancie puts it, hes antisocial. I have never seen a better example of such behavior.
We had a bonfire too the first night I was there. It was a lot of fun, talking, listening to Dane Cook, and enjoying a lovely evening. Unfortunately Garrett got food poisoning that night, but the rest of us made the most of it. And at least he felt back to normal the next day too, so he could start to hang out with everyone else again.

Sitting at my mom's house, waiting for my laundry to finish. In short, I am bored. I'm watching the new mini-series called Merlin though, its kind of fun, if very much not based in the legend beyond names. Not that I can expect too much more than that though. Reeeeeeeeeeeally fakey dragon. I am not impressed with that one at all.

My mom has been trying to claim my new car is hers, and she finally got me to let her drive it today. I told her if I couldn't call the accord mine, she can't call my car hers. I don't think she likes hearing that though.


My mom gave me my graduation present today too. It amused me because she always makes fun of me when I give it to her for her birthday.


I'm excited to go to the tri-cities tomorrow too. It'll be good to see everyone.

“The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”

J.R.R. Tolkien quote

“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”

J.R.R. Tolkien quote

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”

- Paul Theroux

New Travel Quotes

“I suspect that we ramblers, we motion addicts, suffer from a kind of difference addiction, too. We like to see change, to observe X and Y and then ponder the slope of the line that might be drawn between them. Things change back home; the weather, for example - that creek that floods then recedes. But those places on the other side of various borders - and as I write this I’m just five hours from Mexico - make for the steepest slopes, the largest differences.”

~Mitchell Stevens

“Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home."

~Alan Watts

Go far.
Stay long.
See deep.
And may the sun rise twice before you sleep.

~Unknown


A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

~Lao Tzu

"Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken."

~Frank Herbert

Airplane!

I'm up at the lake, and was just sitting at the kitchen table with Jinnie when we heard the strangest sound. When she asked me what it was I looked out the window and responded in a casual tone, "An airplane." It took Jinnie about 5 seconds to register what I had actually said and double take for indeed, a small seaplane had chipped its prop and been forced to land on our beach. Quite an adventure it was!

After awhile it had to putter down 7 cabins to Gary Fry's beach so he could pull it up further out of the water. The poor guy's from Sandpoint and has to wait for his wife to come pick him up and then return tomorrow with a new part.

Finally

So after 5 years, I am finally a college graduate. Woot! We'll ignore that it was a very long, very hot ceremony in the sun dressed all in black. Really I paid attention to nothing except when it was going to be over, but that's okay, cause it is over!

What was interesting though was that of our original music theory class as beginning music majors of 45 or so. Jim, Will, Karmen and I are the only 4 who graduated this year. Everyone else has been at Eastern longer. That's quite a downsize for us. This photo is all the music graduates for this year except Will, Karmen, Andrea, and Theresa who came within the next 5 minutes, and Dani who didn't walk. We have all had some great times together though. We spent the whole walk to the football field singing "We Are the Champions" at the top of our lungs, and then proceeded to create new harmonies to go along with "Pomp and Circumstance." I'm fairly certain we managed to bother quite a few other people with this, but it kept us sane!

So, I have totally slacked off on writing yet again. Just thought about it the other day and figured I should probably try to get myself back into the habit again. That is if you could call my random and sporadic posts a habit. That's okay though. I finished school, that's rather exciting. Graduation is on Saturday. I'm excited to see Leslie, can't believe she's flying up from LA. I look forward to seeing her.

The lake was beautiful this week, as per usual. I can't wait til we get the boat in the water. I want to break in the new surfboard. Other than that, life is pretty normal. Just keep plugging along.