Travels

Mar. 14th, 2009 01:31 pm
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   Thursday, 5pm, through Friday, 11am, I was moving bees from Redding down here to So Cal. After 18 hours of working, I slept 16 of the following 24 (=

   The previous weekend I'd been up in San Fran for a Model UN conference. In fact I think I've been up in Nor Cal almost once every other weekend since the beginning of the year. So much so that I often haven't noted it here.
   And I have some even more adventurous travel plans in the future: (1) Spain in May; (2) Epic Roadtrip 2009 -- destination TBA, but it will be epic!; (3) Turkey/Israel/Egypt in October!


Highlights from Recent SF Trip
   (A) Hotel security had a noise complaint about an empty room -- trigger happy about noise much?
   (B) My friend Connor, who had been most paranoid about getting in trouble, dropped a glass bottle of everclear in the lobby and it shattered. Oops. We walked quickly away and didn't get in trouble.
   (C) I was at the conference with Pasadena City College (PCC). Looking for other delegations' room parties we knock on a hotel room that sounds promising. The guy who opens the door immediately looks dumbfounded. "Kris Fricke!?!" he asks. We've stumbled upon the Davis delegation. Its been at least three years since I was involved in the club there, and I don't recognize any of them but they come out and tell me how I'm still cited prominantly in their training and take pictures of me. Way to randomly feel famous while looking for a party!
   (D) Everyone loved my homemade beer and rum I'd brought. <3
   (E) My personal favourite moment was when my friend Nima was in the bathroom in our hotel room and I put the little ironing board perpendicularly in the hallway outside it, ie blocking the bathroom door from opening and effectively barracading Nima in the bathroom. I had a hearty laugh for about a minute and then let him out. Muahahahaha.

Highlights from Bee Trip
   (A) Delicious food at "Logan's Roadhouse" in Redding. Strongly recommended.
   (B) Redding Sundial Bridge!


Picture of the Day


Redding Sundial Bridge (in sepiatone)

See Also: I uploaded 23 other recent pictures to flickr, check them out! (=

Date: 2009-03-14 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com
This is the honest to God truth--I am still laughing as I type these words--your naming of the "troll habitat" is hysterical. It's a wonder I can type.

And please tell me Connor was ironing socks as a joke. You know, to make a funny photograph.

Again, wonderful photographs (my favorite is the one on this page)and an interesting read. You are never boring, my friend. ;)

Date: 2009-03-14 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Thanks! (=

Connor was indeed ironing his socks! "because they're wet!" he claimed, and you can see he's kind of glaring at me resentfully for taking a picture.

Date: 2009-03-14 10:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furzicle.livejournal.com
post your storm picture!
And the picture of the pastoral countryside near Redding.

Date: 2009-03-14 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
I'll get around to it. (= I try to hold myself back to a picture a day.

Date: 2009-03-15 01:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unoriginalmoron.livejournal.com
You wouldn't happen to be planning on being anywhere near the bay area the first weekend in April, would you?

Date: 2009-03-15 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
I could be? Why do you ask?

Date: 2009-03-15 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unoriginalmoron.livejournal.com
Because I will be and who doesn't want more bee enthusiasts at the party?

Date: 2009-03-15 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Are you having a wild party? I've gotten really casual about travelling up to and down the state, I might just show up. :D

Date: 2009-03-16 03:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Haha so you'll just be in the Bay Area ... are you not normally in the bay area?

Date: 2009-03-15 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heethen-crone.livejournal.com
Wonderful pictures. Loved the troll habitat and the bridge ones. You take interesting photos.

Date: 2009-03-15 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Thanks! (=

Date: 2009-03-15 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alycewilson.livejournal.com
That's a great story, about your 15 minutes of fame. I like the picture you posted with this.

Date: 2009-03-15 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Thanks. I'm not really happy with the shade of "sepiatone" I came up with. I made it "by hand" by messing with saturation and hue, and that was the best I could get it. Would have liked it a little more yellow. This colour reminds me of smog )=

Date: 2009-03-15 11:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alycewilson.livejournal.com
I never would have guessed you did it yourself. Good job. I like the white portions of the bridge, rising up in the midst of a darker field.

Date: 2009-03-16 05:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emo-snal.livejournal.com
Thanks! (=

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