Time for More Adventures

Well as I had mentioned in my last post, I ended up getting super busy.  I had only three days off between Labor Day and the day after Christmas, when I flew down to Florida for my first vacation in a year.  Last semester, I worked and went to school full-time, working 8 hour shifts on Friday and Monday and 12 hour shifts on Saturday and Sunday.  Then I went to classes Tuesday through Thursday.  My few days off were lucky days when class was cancelled and I usually took advantage of the time by going up to Moscow and mountain biking.

I apologize to my probably only one reader now that I haven't been posting like I should, but again, I have had some pretty good reasons.  Since I am only taking 6 credits this semester and not working very much overtime like before, I actually have quite a bit more free time than last semester.  Once the weather starts getting a little nicer, I plan on using that free time to get back to having awesome adventures instead of using it to plow through shows on Netflix.

I think how I will go from here, at least in the short term is do another photo recap of last semester, followed by separate posts recapping my vacation in Florida and then my most recent adventure to Colorado.

Looking back through all of my pictures last semester, I actually somehow managed to fit a lot of mini adventures into my already jam-packed life.  Hopefully I can continue to make the most of my time, enjoying everything this wonderful world around me has to offer.

So here goes the pictures... (These will again be roughly in order from most recent to oldest)

This technically wasn't last semester, only last month.  This was a picture that was from a rare ride south of town.  This picture is exactly opposite from most of the other pictures I take during road rides (seen below).  In the distance, you can't actually see Lewiston, because it is covered in the fog (it would normally be there).

One day I went out shooting with a friend and was pretty sad that it wasn't turkey season, especially since I had all of my guns right there with me.  We saw about 80 turkeys there, including that white one in the middle.

These two pictures are from a scene that I probably take pictures of more than anything, which is from the top of Lewiston Hill on my bike rides.  These pictures were from an uncharacteristically nice day in the midst of many foggy and rainy days this winter.  The cities below are Lewiston on the left and Clarkston on the right side of the river.

On this day, I tried out a new trail, Asotin Creek.  It ended up feeling much more like a hiking trail than a MTB trail, so it wasn't the most fun.

Here are all the presents I got for family and friends before I shipped them out.

This is from near the same spot as the picture of the valley below, only at night on my way back from Pullman one night.

This was a fun night out with my old Pullman roommates.  We were celebrating one of Mike's (on my left) last nights in Pullman, as he is now in Germany.

Here are some more pictures from the top of the hill, these ones showing the fog that I have lived in for most of the winter (note that you can't see the city at all in these pictures).

These pictures are from probably the coldest day we had all winter.  This 7 degree F ride was up the Snake River.  The second picture is looking up the river towards Hell's Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America.

Here are a couple pictures from back when the leaves were turning.  There aren't very many trees in Lewiston, but the few that there are definitely made me miss Michigan this time of year.

These pictures were from a very peaceful ride down the Snake River into Washington.  This road see very little traffic and it was a very relaxing Wednesday morning.

The seven above pictures are a sample from my few trips up to Moscow for some fantastic fall mountain biking.  Those trips were the most relaxed I felt all semester (except for my one foot encounter with a moose and her baby- that was quite stressful).

Here is another fall picture.  This tree is right across the street from the hospital where I work.

This was at work on one of out more stressful days.  The glove was taped to the plastic inside that box and dry ice filled it up...

This is from the first day of October, on another ride south of town.  This is Waha lake, at the base of the Waha "mountains."  It was a gorgeous ride and getting into the trees is a fairly rare treat around here.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the pictures.  With my plans for a lot more biking and camping this year, hopefully I will have a lot of fun stories to write about on here.  Maybe I'll get a new real camera, too, so I can start taking more pictures and my pictures aren't so sporadic.  Here's to more adventures...