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What a month for travel!
Jul. 23rd, 2011 09:46 amLate June we left for a surprise 50th birthday party for Russet's brother in Colorado, which kicked off a month of travel.
Cloudcroft -> Longmont, CO -> Santa Fe (spend the night going to Phoenix) -> Flagstaff (way point) -> Phoenix -> Cloudcroft -> Las Cruces -> Cloudcroft -> Phoenix -> Las Vegas -> Phoenix -> Cloudcroft -> Las Cruces -> Cloudcroft -> El Paso -> Cloudcroft -> El Paso -> Cloudcroft.
Over 4,000 road miles, not counting in-city driving and side trips.
The El Paso leg was for me to fly out to Baltimore, MD for my annual NIH checkup, so add over 3,000 air miles to that! Russet drove me to El Paso so we weren't leaving a car there. We were originally planning to drive to Baltimore, but I had a lot of problems scheduling this year's trip and that just wasn't possible as the telescope shutdown was too close, as it turns out Russet had to go back to work Tuesday while I was still in Maryland. Next year we're hoping to get it scheduled earlier so we can overlap with a little fanfic convention in MD and do some touristing and visit her sisters in Maine while we're up in that area.
After I got home Wednesday night, I pretty much did nothing Thursday and Friday. Today we're probably going to go down the mountain and see Harry Potter.
We did lots, saw lots of friends, attended an immunology conference which was quite interesting, and a little fanfic convention. I got to go to the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, also strolled through the Hard Rock Hotel/Casino. I had to go to Las Cruces twice because my boss quit and I wanted to get in one last meeting with him, and then I went back to conduct a three day HTML training class! That was pretty cool. I didn't get to do much sight seeing in Washington while I was there, but solid plans to go to the International Spy Museum next year. They have a walking tour of DC where they give you a pre-programmed GPS with an audio track to lead you on a "spy mission".
Cloudcroft -> Longmont, CO -> Santa Fe (spend the night going to Phoenix) -> Flagstaff (way point) -> Phoenix -> Cloudcroft -> Las Cruces -> Cloudcroft -> Phoenix -> Las Vegas -> Phoenix -> Cloudcroft -> Las Cruces -> Cloudcroft -> El Paso -> Cloudcroft -> El Paso -> Cloudcroft.
Over 4,000 road miles, not counting in-city driving and side trips.
The El Paso leg was for me to fly out to Baltimore, MD for my annual NIH checkup, so add over 3,000 air miles to that! Russet drove me to El Paso so we weren't leaving a car there. We were originally planning to drive to Baltimore, but I had a lot of problems scheduling this year's trip and that just wasn't possible as the telescope shutdown was too close, as it turns out Russet had to go back to work Tuesday while I was still in Maryland. Next year we're hoping to get it scheduled earlier so we can overlap with a little fanfic convention in MD and do some touristing and visit her sisters in Maine while we're up in that area.
After I got home Wednesday night, I pretty much did nothing Thursday and Friday. Today we're probably going to go down the mountain and see Harry Potter.
We did lots, saw lots of friends, attended an immunology conference which was quite interesting, and a little fanfic convention. I got to go to the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, also strolled through the Hard Rock Hotel/Casino. I had to go to Las Cruces twice because my boss quit and I wanted to get in one last meeting with him, and then I went back to conduct a three day HTML training class! That was pretty cool. I didn't get to do much sight seeing in Washington while I was there, but solid plans to go to the International Spy Museum next year. They have a walking tour of DC where they give you a pre-programmed GPS with an audio track to lead you on a "spy mission".
