Ready for the 1065.6 mile journey

Hillbilly style

Impeccable packing job

some changes

what a great summer it has been so far...looking forward to what the future has to hold:

this week i'll be fulfilling a decade-old dream of doing a music project with my long time friend tim....i'm very excited about it.

at the beginning of July, we're moving to Portland, OR to live in the basement apartment of our dear friends ryan and holly sharp.

i'll be doing my next triathlon in August in p-land.

some fun camping in mammoth and shasta planned for the month of july.

hopefully i'll land my job as a college professor in about 2 weeks.

this has been a refreshing season of rest, exercise and exploring my inner landscape....fun stuff.

here's a really sweet picture of me and my niece Violet that bethany took as we waited for Carrie to finish her recent marathon in San Diego. carrie just gave me a framed print of it yesterday. i love it.

5 years today

Breakfast at the same spot we came to immediately after getting
engaged in July '03

Rest.

Betty and I are so thankful to have amazing friends like Tim and Meggan, who have welcomed us into their home and allowed us to stay here for the last few weeks. The days here have been incredibly restorative, with much time spent in the kitchen making meals together, playing with sweet little Biruk, and drinking wine in the evenings together. I think for the first time in a couple years I am beginning to move toward feeling balanced and content internally.

As a side note, the other day, out of the blue this ridiculously sized hail came down like crazy for about two minutes. Weird. But cool:

Del Mar sunset.

I like this picture.