I call it "scheduled" procrastination

In the spirit of procrastination, I'm sitting here at my computer at nearly 11 p.m. with a test looming at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning but I'm doing everything but studying. Instead I'm going to entertain you for a bit and throw together a compilation of some of the PhotoBooth pics I've taken on my computer since somewhere around late last year. Hope you enjoy them, and if you're viewing this between 8 and 9 tomorrow morning please be thinking of me.

Back to the "Real" World

After a week of riding my bicycle through the wilderness of the Great Allegheny Passage and the historic C&O Canal trail it's kind of weird to come back to the "real" world. The funny thing to me, is the 335 miles my cyclocomputer clocked over 6 days seemed pretty "real" to me. I saw things over the past week that I honestly didn't thing I would ever see, nor did I even know exist. I saw towns where battles that shaped our country were fought, I saw one of the biggest wonders of the modern world, I saw some of the most beautiful areas in the country, and I saw the nation's capital with my own two eyes. Now I'm trying to swallow the idea of driving back to Springfield and going back to work and school. Sometimes there just isn't enough time to soak it all in.

**Update, if you would like to see some more pics of the trip you can go here.

Panoramas

Here's a few panorama shots I took on our trip out west in early June. I'm not sure what to do with them, so I thought I'd share them, enjoy.

Snake River - Grand Teton NP

Many Glacier - Glacier NP

Little Missour River - Theodore Roosevelt NP

Theodore Roosevelt NP

Waterton Lakes National Park - Alberta Canada

The Katy Trail

This weekend my friend Tyler and I set out on the Katy Trail.  The Katy is a rail trail that traverses 220 miles of missouri, most of which follow the Missouri River.  We didn't ride the entire trail due to time constraints, but we did manage to pack in almost 160 miles in 2 days.  Our starting point was Boonville, MO which is slightly west of Columbia, and our ending point was St. Charles, MO.  This is our big training ride for the Allegheny Trail and C&O towpath we plan to ride in August.

**Update - I just added my little bro's blog on the right hand column, be sure to check it out.  Or go to http://natesdarkroom.blogspot.com he's usually got some cool stuff and also some good music.  Sorry it took me so long to add you Nate!  OH..I would also like to point out that just recently, my blog recieved it's 3000th hit.  So that officially puts me into the category of, "Blogs that Almost Nobody Reads", but I don't care.  Friday is also the 1 year anniversary of my very first post...if you don't remember it, then go back and read it!