this week i put over 600 miles on the motorcycle. in one week. wait - no, in 3 days. i am hoping that my butt adjusts to this quicker than it has decided to so far, or else it may be a more painful experience than i had expected. a few quick things i have learned over the past week:
- texans like to speed. if they don't like to speed, they like to be the turtle on the road holding everyone up.
- those turtle - they like to camp out in the left hand lane on the highway, apparently oblivious to the fact that even trucks barely going the speed limit are passing them on the right. who does that?!
- i have re-joined the instant community that a motorcycle provides you with. all bikes wave to each other as if we all knew each other. that is kind of fun. CO does not do this and it was surprisingly really annoying that bikers in CO are asses like that. i felt like the kid from a small town that is personally offended when not everyone waves back when they go to the city. TX wins that one, no competition.
- buying gas twice a day will get old fast.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
I obey the speed limit
So, sometimes I think I have a really addictive personality... kind of. I get really into things, but then I seem to also loose interest in a lot of things. Gambling is an example. I have done it like 2 times and i get real into it, having a hard time stopping, and then I hit some invisible threshold and quickly hate the whole thing for taking my $3 back away from me. jerks.
Anyways, I have started to read the Twilight series and have had a hard time living normal life since. Each of those books are like 500 or something pages and I have read the first three in a little over a week. I know. Grieve for me like the wife does... but I am done until like Thanksgiving break now. No more reading that kind of stuff unless I am on a break. It would be a big problem for school!
Speaking of which, orientation is tomorrow and that kind of totally freaks me out. I got my TA assignment (undergrad social research) and apparently I even have office hours for the kiddies. Something that is kind of cool is that they submit their papers to me electronically, and this system automatically checks the paper against some database for any plagerization. How far we have come.
On a totally unrelated note, tonight I pulled up to a stop light next to a Lamborghini. On the bike. I was able to resist. Mostly. I think it was either borrowed, rented, or brand new because he seemed to struggle a bit with the clutch on the beast.
Anyways, I have started to read the Twilight series and have had a hard time living normal life since. Each of those books are like 500 or something pages and I have read the first three in a little over a week. I know. Grieve for me like the wife does... but I am done until like Thanksgiving break now. No more reading that kind of stuff unless I am on a break. It would be a big problem for school!
Speaking of which, orientation is tomorrow and that kind of totally freaks me out. I got my TA assignment (undergrad social research) and apparently I even have office hours for the kiddies. Something that is kind of cool is that they submit their papers to me electronically, and this system automatically checks the paper against some database for any plagerization. How far we have come.
On a totally unrelated note, tonight I pulled up to a stop light next to a Lamborghini. On the bike. I was able to resist. Mostly. I think it was either borrowed, rented, or brand new because he seemed to struggle a bit with the clutch on the beast.
Friday, August 14, 2009
1979.6
1979.6. That is how many miles I put on the bike in the last couple of weeks. I took it out to CO for a little bit of a vacation before school kicks into gear. It was an awesome trip and I got to do lots of things that I have missed a lot since not going to CO or WA in a while. I got to see lots of friends that I have not seen in a long time and have missed a lot as well. Overall I am glad that I was able to take the bike out there, though. I decided that I really like to travel by bike. You get to see and experience things in a totally different way on a bike than otherwise. The only thing that I wanted while I was out there (maybe besides a softer seat) was other people to go with though.
Landon getting ready to repel...
Sara reading on the boat in the San Juans....
Lopez Island Winery
Me getting ready to ride Buddy, the scooter!
The sunset on the last night in Amarilly, TX.
The last night I stayed at a rest stop in Amarillo, TX, which was interesting. I slept under a picnic shelter on concrete and got eaten alive by mosquitos. A security guards (yep, 24 hour security!) told me that they have been having a terrible time with mosquitoes because they have been getting a lot of rain. Anyways, my face and body had bites all over the place, with the addition of one pretty good size spider bite. So, I fought the bugs all night, tried to sleep totally sealed in a much-too-warm mummy bag, and then a massive thunderstorm came along. It was actually nice though... cooled things down a lot, but didn't help with the sleep thing. I got up before sunrise to start out. one of the best things I have ever done. The sunrise that morning was absolutely stunning, and it lingered for a long time because of all the clouds that were out. It was a very, very deep red; like the red of the inner part of a peach.
Here are a bunch of pics from the trip though...
Landon getting ready to repel...
Sara reading on the boat in the San Juans....
Lopez Island Winery
Me getting ready to ride Buddy, the scooter!
The sunset on the last night in Amarilly, TX.
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