Hmmm

I'm not sure about shilling for a company on here, but WOOT.com has occasionally had some really good deals and they said they would 'share the wealth' if readers use the links on here. I threw a couple of their links on over there --------> if anyone is interested. Today's deal is a good one, I bought 2 boxes of 60 AA batteries for $17 including shipping...... about 14 cents a battery.

WOOT OFF!!!

Hey, there's a WOOT OFF going on at WOOT.COM! (Link is over there to the right, and I get a little something if anyone actually buys something through the link)
One item is sold at a time, usually at a pretty big savings. When that item sells out they post another and so on until it's over. If you happen to get lucky enough and see the "Bag of Crap" listed, make sure you buy as many as you can. You never know what will be in it (my first one had 13 MP3 players, 5 tee shirts, a remote control, a GPS unit (no instructions or cord) and a bunch of other stuff..... all for $3.00 + $5.00 shipping. Check it out!

Apache Trail, unpaved

This is the road where it drops down to Fish Creek. Pretty narrow and a single lane bridge at the bottom. Both of these look better (a little) if you watch them in HD (change the resolution down in the lower right).

Driving the Apache Trail

We drove the Apache Trail (Arizona 88) between Apache Junction and Lake Roosevelt last night. Fantastic road and lots to see. I want to come back and do the paved section on my motorcycle......

Another?

Here's another one (in HD this time) since that seems to work.....

Videos?

Not sure if this will work, but I'll try embedding a Youtube video I took:

Simon Canyon

We hiked into Simon Canyon Ruin with Mom & Dad yesterday. We were driving to Farmington and passing by when Dad remembered hearing about it and we decided to check it out. Easy hike and a really cool ruin on top of a huge boulder. There was a rope attached to the top on the back side that made for an 'exciting' climb to the top for a few of us.

What lies beneath.....

Took Mom & Dad and the kids over to Willow Creek this afternoon to watch the salmon run. I was trying out a new mount I made for the waterproof case for the ContourGPS camera we just got at work. I thought I was recording video but had it set to still photos by mistake. Here's one....

She's climbing the walls!

Jenni sent me these this morning from her cell phone. Apparently Sara can't get on FB until she gets to Xian so this will have to do for now.
She said the weather was fantastic and they followed the Wall climb with a acrobat show (the circus kind, not the software kind).

She made it!

Got an email from the wife, she and Jenni made it to Beijing safely. I imagine she is climbing the Wall by now.....

It's a big day.

Sara leaves to begin her research in Chinese toiletry. From the little bit of investigating I've done, this would appear to be a particularly sanitary example. We will miss her terribly!












A couple items I've noticed are missing: DOORS, and Toilet Paper......

Pease from a plane

When we flew out of Manchester, NH on our way home this summer, we flew straight East. I've never taken that route before and was trying to follow along. I snapped a few pictures on a little digital camera I had and when I got back tried to match the photo up with the same view in Google Earth. Here is the one of Pease Air Force Base and Portsmouth, NH in the background. Kinda cool.....

Heading East 
 Getting up at 3am to drive up to Salida and meet CB. Gotta get to the Denver airport by 10am to catch a flight east. Thanks to Capt. Mike for the buddy passes, couldn't have made it otherwise.
Uncle George's funeral on Saturday. Should be big. Hard to believe he's gone. Glad Sara, Eric and I went to see him a couple weeks ago. He was having a good day, alert, energetic, himself..... a good way to be remembered.

Camping/Fishing

The boys and I went on a campout fishing trip to a super secret spot I 'discovered' a few years ago. We fished Friday night after setting up camp and then hiked to a different lake and fished (unsucessfully) Saturday morning. In the afternoon we headed back to the first lake and had some luck there.......

New place

Apparently there are still a few people that look at this (according to the stats counter) so I guess I better add an update every now and then. We met up with CB & Mandy, Mom & Dad, and Ed & Audrey this weekend. I've been looking over an area on the map that looked like it might have some interesting things to see. Turns out it has a LOT of interesting things to see and the cool part is it is only an hour and a half from home. We'll be back......