tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25203360668725825522024-03-18T21:03:32.890-07:0024 Hour Putzy PeopleMarie McGrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16118060097387648141noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-89792982502289529272016-08-17T15:52:00.000-07:002016-08-20T16:30:52.503-07:00Hiking in Switzerland<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you didn't know, I've been
traveling through <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">E</span>urope throughout the summer after graduation.My plan is:
Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Germany. Here's a more
detailed plan. It will probably change as I go.</span></div>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt; width: 33pt;" width="44"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Boston</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Boston>Paris</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Paris> Barcelona</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">8-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Barcelona</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Barcelona</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">10-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Barcelona >
Pampalona</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">11-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Pampalona > Madrid</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">12-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Madrid</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">13-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Madrid (Segovia)</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">14-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Madrid > Granada</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">15-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Granada> Ronda</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">16-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ronda > Algeciras
(Gibraltar)</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="45" style="height: 33.75pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">17-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">La Linea (Gibraltar)
>Seville>Lisbon</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">18-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lisbon</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">19-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lisbon (Sintra)</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">20-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lisbon</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">21-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Rome</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">22-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Rome</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">23-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Rome>Pompei>Naples</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">24-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Naples</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">25-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cinque Terre (La
Spezia)</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="45" style="height: 33.75pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">26-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cinque Terre >
Pisa>Florence</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="56" style="height: 42pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">27-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Florence</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">28-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Florence (Siena, San
Gigiomano)</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">29-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Florence>Venice</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">30-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Venice</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">31-Jul</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Venice>Milan</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Milan</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Milan>Grenoble</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="15" style="height: 11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Grenoble</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Grenoble>Marseille</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">5-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Marseille (Calanques)</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Marseille>Nice</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">7-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nice>Monaco>Genoa</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">8-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Genoa</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="45" style="height: 33.75pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">9-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Genoa>Laussane</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="15" style="height: 11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">10-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Laussane > Zermatt</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="15" style="height: 11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">11-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Zermatt > Laussane</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="15" style="height: 11.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">12-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Laussane (Interlaken)</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">13-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Laussane
(Lauterbrunnen)</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">14-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Laussane > Lucerne</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">15-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lucerene > Zurich
> Munich</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">16-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Munich</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">17-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Munich > Mainz</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">18-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mainz > Koblenz</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">19-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Koblenz > Cologne</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">20-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cologne</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="23" style="height: 17.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">21-Aug</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Cologne</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"></td><td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"></td><td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"></td><td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"></td><td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"></td><td align="left" class="xl69" style="width: 85pt;" width="113"></td>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I've been pretty bad about posting my adventures to this blog<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, but <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">here's a blog post about Switzerland<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, which <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">has<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></span></span></span>mostly been hiking through many
mountains and lakes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My first destination in Switzerland
was Laussane, which is on Lake Geneva. This is where Yo was this summer, and I
went to visit him. Upon reaching Laussane, the first thing I had to do was pee,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That's when I realized it costs
$1.50 to take a piss. Really... $1.50... and its an extra $0.50 to poop. The
bottom line is Switzerland is super expensive - everything from peeing to food
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Day 2]</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Putz spirit, the Marmot Trail.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My second day in Zermatt, I did one
of the best (if not the best) hikes ever. I went up above the clouds to 14,000
ft, climbed on the Matterhorn, and walked on a glacier. What more could you ask
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the same time, you could say it
was a really really stupid idea. As stupid as I can sometimes be, I initially
did not plan to climb the Matterhorn. The hiking office in Zermatt said that it
is stupid to hike up the Matterhorn. Yo said that I shouldn’t climb the
Matterhorn or go on glaciers. And someone at my hostel got severe altitude
sickness after hiking above 12,000 ft. So, my plan was to play it safe and not hike the <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Matterhorn. Instead, I would<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span>hike up to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alpine lake on the trail up to Hornlihutte</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At Hornlihutte. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">During my ascent to Hornlihutte, I met somebody from Buffalo,
NY also hiking alone. He said he was also hiking up to Hornlihutte and wanted
to attempt to go up the Matterhorn as much as he could without special equipment.
Since I didn’t feel too tired, I decided to join him in the adventure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We made it to 14,000 feet, where we
were above all the clouds. Truly an amazing view up there.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made it. 14,000 ft.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taller than anything else in Europe other than Mt Blanc.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">On the way back down to Zermatt, the
two of us decided to take a longer route down, walking along <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ober<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">er Theodulgletcher glacier </span>on the way back.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I walked on a glacier</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Matterhorn from the glacier.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">After climbing 14,000 ft without <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">carrying any </span>food, I was super super hungry. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">On t<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">he way down</span></span>, there was a restaurant at 9<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,000 ft<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> right in front o<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">f the <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Matterhorn. I paid $36 <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">for a pork chop and fries<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> that was helicoptered up there. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">It was expensive, but<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> the location was worth every penny.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Lunch at 9,000 ft in fron<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">t of the Matterhorn. I think it tasted better just because it was helicoptered up there<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. Or I was just super hungry by then.</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Af<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ter 11 hours of hiking, I made it back down to Zermatt. </span>I was super super <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">tired </span>the next day.</span></div>
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Hey Putz! Here's a kind of long, poorly-photographed, and somewhat rambling account of the month after graduation, much of which I spent on a bicycle riding down the Pacific coast.</div>
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The trip was minimally planned. I decided to start in Vancouver, at Muffin's suggestion, and end in LA, where my older sister lives. Along the way, I wanted to visit Seattle (to see people) and Portland (because Marcos said Portland was great) . Before long stretches (Portland to SF, SF to LA) I bookmarked a bunch of potential campsites on Google Maps, and then day-of I would just see how I felt in the afternoon, and pick one to finish at. I only booked my flight out of LA when I was a week out of the city, because I didn't want to be pressured to get there at a particular time. For the most part, this approach worked well, but a couple times I got screwed by not researching campsites/parks carefully enough. I'll get into that later.</div>
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1v04ouVOD4ADT4NCxYGjXFe8yO_4&usp=sharing">Here's approximately the route I took</a>. Over all, it was 1,570 miles, give or take a few. Over ~19 days of riding that's something like 82 miles a day on average. The longest distance I did in a day was ~115 miles, on a beautiful day in the middle of the Oregon coast.</div>
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The original thought was to fly or ship my bike and stuff out to Vancouver, but fortunately Billy came to the rescue. Instead the two of us drove there in his <a href="https://vimeo.com/35338999">sweet new car</a>, with the bike on the roof.</div>
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Hold on. First, I went and got a new learner's permit, because I don't have a driver's license and my Georgia permit expired 4 years ago. Then Billy gave me a driving lesson in his stick-shift car (this was my second time ever in front of the wheel of a car). Then Billy drove to Chicago, where I got my second driving lesson. Then we drove to Vancouver.</div>
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We camped most of the way there. Here's the sunset from Badlands in South Dakota. Man, the east side of South Dakota is suuuper boring, but it gets a bit more interesting towards the west.</div>
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Here's a lake in Glacier National Park. In Glacier, a small grizzly bear wandered through our campsite one night. It seemed to not care one bit about all the people, and made its way to the nearby stream and out of sight.</div>
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I started biking a little north of Vancouver, just the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Bridge">Lions Gate Bridge</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Park">Stanley Park</a>, which would have been lovely if it hadn't been pouring. We parked under some cover, I got my bike off the roof, attached my rack and panniers, and rode off straight into the rain.</div>
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Fortunately it quit in the early afternoon, and by the time I got to the US border I was mostly dry. At customs, the guy who checked my passport and questioned me was very confused that I had biked there from Vancouver, and cycling "for fun" seemed like a novel concept to him.</div>
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First day in Washington was very pretty, although I didn't take many pictures. Here's my first campsite, in Larrabee State Park.</div>
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Sadly I woke up to this in the morning. I must have run over a thorn on my way into the campground. </div>
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Next day I made it to Seattle, where I stayed with Austin Brown '18 for a few days. While I was out there I visited<a href="http://freeflysystems.com/"> Freefly Systems</a>, which was extremely cool, and saw Shane Colton and Tyler Christensen, MITERS-folk who both work there now. I've got a healthy fear of RC flying contraptions, but their Alta drones were remarkably <i>not</i>-scary, despite their huge size, I because of how (relatively) quite they are and how smoothly and controllably they fly.</div>
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First day out of Seattle I meant to have an easy, 50-something day ride. After an afternoon of getting rained on, I intended to camp at Holiday Park near Spanaway. I got there, and the whole park was fenced off with concertina wire. Turns out it was a military famcamp and I wasn't actually allowed to stay there without a military ID. It was getting late and there were no other campgrounds anywhere close (or reasonable places to pitch a tent on the side of the road), so I found the crappiest motel I could in Spanaway. Spanaway is a dump, I recommend not going there.</div>
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This barn is somewhere between Seattle and Portland. I have no explanation. "<i>Dr. Pierce's favorite prescription for weak women</i>"</div>
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I spent a full day in Portland. I did lots of walking and drank lots of coffee. It was good.</div>
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The ride from Portland out to the coast was one of my favorites of the entire trip. I started by taking the light rail out of the city to Hilsboro, because I hate navigating cities, especially in the morning at rush hour.Google maps led me through several miles of gravel farm roads, which was actually a lot of fun. I greatly appreciated my extra-fat tires.</div>
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I knew from the Google Maps elevation map there would be one miserable hill, but after that it would be gentle downhill all the way to the coast.<br />
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The hill was worth it, though. Both sides, but especially the way down, were beautiful. The road on the downhill side followed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestucca_River">Nestucca River</a>, which was absolutely lovely - Winding, through old forest directly adjacent to the water at the top, and smoother, sunnier, lined with foxgloves and many other flora I can't name towards the bottom.<br />
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First sighting of the Oregon coast:</div>
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Next day, I woke up to the sound of rain, packed up my camping gear in the rain, started biking in the rain, and only had the willpower to ride about 30 miles. This particular section of the 101 was fairly developed and busy with cars, and in the rain and heavy fog I was worried about not being seen and getting run over.</div>
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I got started as soon as the rain stopped the next morning. After a cloudy start, it turned out to be a beautiful day, so I rode all day and put in ~115 miles. Here's some Oregon coast:</div>
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Here's the top of the big climb in Del Norte Coast Redwoods Park, high up enough to be in the low clouds. I took a short break to absorb everything before bombing down the other side. It's always so satisfying to see those "7% grade next (n) miles" signs at the top.<br />
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Finally leaving the Hwy 101 for Hwy 1, which splits off and goes back out to the coast: The folks I camped with a few nights before hyped up the amount of climbing on this stretch ("Leggett"), but it was really not too bad, after that climb out of Portland.<br />
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On my way through Point Reyes Station, I stopped at Cowgirl Creamery and got a brick of delicious (and expensive) cheese and some freshly baked bread for lunch. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Walked around in almost-knee deep mud trying to figure out if the creek restarted. It's probably only a thing in spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last weekend Jennie & I went to the ocean! This is at Santa Cruz wharf. Jennie rented a real kayak, which is significantly longer and faster than mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sea lions live under the wharf; you can't get too close or else they'll fight you. There's also a protected kelp forest to the side of the wharf where otters live; you can't get too close or else they'll panic and die (or something)</span></div>
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<br />Avahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04980159405064233541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-90884972796211784502015-08-20T15:30:00.000-07:002015-08-20T15:30:20.457-07:00Millau ViaductSold the motorcycle<br />
Sleeping in the back of a rented Peugeot wagon (nicknamed Joe Pewgit)<br />
Drove 10000 kilometers in the last two weeks<br />
Got a ticket in München<br />
Went to Fucking, Austria<br />
Got towed in Prag<br />
Florence is beautiful<br />
Driving in Italy is insane<br />
Lost my GoPro and 32 gigs of images<br />
All worth it for the sunrise over the world's tallest bridge<br />
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<br />Jaguar Kristellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08428337775851273522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-72835128883822409302015-08-03T09:21:00.000-07:002015-08-03T09:21:31.873-07:00Subway PutzIs it just me being immature, or does the Hong Kong subway map look like a big Putz?<br />
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Wesley K Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16946795332007169897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-11211002777409920142015-07-22T07:09:00.001-07:002015-07-22T07:09:28.804-07:00Free Food in Hong KongSo I didn't expect there to be free food in Hong Kong. There's no tech talks, no free food mailing list, etc. In fact, I budgeted to spend USD$1500/month for food while I'm there. But recently, I discovered that there is food at Arup, the company I'm working at.<br />
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Every so often, building equipment suppliers come in to pitch their product to engineers and persuade them to install them in the buildings they design. And often, these suppliers also bring food to bribe engineers to come and listen. I attended one of these talks and they had fancy salmon sandwiches that were really good. Its just that one boxed lunch isn't enough for me.<br />
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So I waited for leftovers. But when the talk ended, I realized I wasn't the only one waiting for free food. 5 completely shameless people jumped out of their chair and ran straight for the food. I was a bit too slow and polite to get any.<br />
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Apparently, the different teams at the office send delegates to these talks to haul back the free food and share it amongst themselves. Sounds a lot like EC....<br />
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Here's the guy that brought back 8 boxes of food for my team. I think I need to learn some free food tricks from him.<br />
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Wesley K Lauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16946795332007169897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-26152534513593924622015-07-18T22:01:00.003-07:002015-07-18T23:08:42.061-07:00Katie Goes to SoCal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unlike Ben and Jaguar, I fully embrace millennial selfie culture.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38;">See, my friend Ryan from high school is there for the summer, so I thought I’d go visit him and see what all the SoCal hype is about. It's a pretty neat area. Beaches, deserts, zoos, Disneyland. I tried to get the full experience.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 1.38;">Looks super cool! Totally worth maybe dying for.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.2399997711182px;">Sounded like a rave review to me! Turns out hikers die/get <a href="http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/taxonomy/term/7096">injured</a> <a href="http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2014/jul/23/teen-died-three-sisters-falls-chula-vista/">there</a> <a href="http://www.countynewscenter.com/news/hikers-warned-take-precautions-difficult-trails">pretty</a> <a href="http://www.10news.com/news/hiker-dies-after-being-rescued-at-three-sisters-falls-061615">often</a>. But it has 4.5 stars on Yelp, so how bad could it be?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After arming ourselves with advice from the internet</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (tl;dr bring lots of water and don’t bring your dog), we set off to Cleveland National Forest. The landscape on the drive over was pretty cool.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I kept picturing scenes from Blood Meridian happening around me.<br />
Shout out to putz 2013 book club, woop woop.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aaaand then we got to the hike! No one else was there, it was totally empty. I guess most people don't start this hike at 1 PM when it's already 90˚?</span><img height="298" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/D1sgnwsvQ926na6z8Q3fG6Sz2Fu20ReSgoEcoPX1tciu7BRG1Bmfj3_GM0DPkr7QyKHRRUIUA7sD16CAWjffAhdwxCXCqTFMul-QH5jNfoD22SOgKDSD2i8gTUYm_t6709URAYs" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0rad); border: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="400" /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38;">The start of the hike was a wide, flat dirt road. I was like, "What gives? I thought this was supposed to be hard. Maybe I'm just a really awesome hiker."</span></span></span><br />
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1799a115-a3ad-9b8a-f669-dc1f87531c0b"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1799a115-a3ad-b129-9a98-cdbfc5cc99fc"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38;">But eventually it turns into a typical, narrow hiking trail.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38;">So it’s a normal trail for a while, and then, BAM. Suddenly you are on what feels like a 60 degree incline, covered in super slippery dust. I didn’t take many pictures of this because I was too busy trying not to fall. </span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1799a115-a3ad-9b8a-f669-dc1f87531c0b"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1799a115-a3ad-b129-9a98-cdbfc5cc99fc"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">For the rest of the hike, you follow the tiny stream back up the mountainside until you hit the waterfalls. After an hour or so of boulder climbin’, Ryan goes “Look! The waterfalls!”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Over there!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You’re kidding.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nope, not kidding. The drought is real. The totally awesome "waterfalls" were reduced to these faint, green slime trails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline;">The water fell into this little pond-like alcove, which was totally a paradise. After a few hours of hiking in hot weather, being in the shade was amazing. Swimming in the pond was also great.</span></div>
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I kept thinking, "These are straight out of a Dr. Seuss book."</div>
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And it turns out they are! Dr. Seuss spent the second half of his life in La Jolla (a coastal suburb of San Diego), and <a href="http://stowawaymag.com/2014/01/16/seuss-on-the-loose-find-the-last-truffula-tree-in-la-jolla/">based the animals and trees</a> in his books on what was in the area.</div>
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The guy I bought it from, Tycho, is super cool. He graduated from the Informatiks department at the Universität Stuttgart (the department I have my internship with) and has a HAM Radio license. He also teaches at an Aerospace Lab that offers robotics classes for kids from elementary to high school ages. I've been helping out there ever since (they had a German astronaut who helped with the Philae/Rosetta comet landing mission give a lecture! It was awesome). But yeah, we rode down to a HAM radio convention down near Bodensee. </div>
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CASTLES ARE EVERYWHERE! It's so COOL! I'm driving along, and just glance over at the top of some hill, and there's a CASTLE! What!? Cool! It's so old! And it's still there! Probably because it's on a hill... easy to defend. Whoa, just think of all those super old people. Cool. </div>
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The drive back through the sunset was also super pretty. I still can't get over the fact that I read about all these places in my AP European History text book "big jack". </div>
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We took the autobahn back. The autobahn is basically what you think it is. A freeway without a speed limit. After you see the greyed out 120kmh sign with three stripes through it, the cars take off. Most go around 140kmh (84mph), but every now and then a car goes screaming past on the left. At first it was pretty scary. In the states, I'm used to checking my mirror once or twice before changing lanes, but on the autobahn I have to check three times to get a sense for the acceleration of the objects in my mirror. </div>
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Not sure if you can tell, but the cars passing definitely sound much faster on the side of the autobahn compared to US interstate highway. If you look closely, some of the cars in the back are going <strike>really</strike> insanely fast. The slowest car you see in the foreground is going faster than the top speed limits in the US (which is 75mph in Texas). It's pretty crazy, but also kind of relieving. I don't get a shot of adrenaline every time I see the polizei; perfectly legal :). </div>
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Derp. I parked in front of some old guys driveway coming back from the Uni at 3AM. I arrived just in time to catch the police officer writing my ticket for 15 Euros. </div>
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I got a nice sarcastic sticky note though :) (Exact translation: Thank you very much that you me parked in have. This is a drive way and not parking spot!)</div>
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Unfortunately Switzerland has speed limits on all their roads. On the way, I got flashed by a stationary radar detector. Usually they capture the front license plate and bill you in the mail, but lucky for me, motorcycles only have a rear license plate. :3</div>
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The first day we swam in the lake and grilled delicious Würste with a few friends, and caught the Germany vs. England Women's World Cup game. Unfortunately, Germany lost (the game was actually really bad with England winning in overtime on a penalty kick and dragging out the game with delays. I definitely would never want to win a soccer game like that. Was not impressed by England). </div>
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Right before I got on the slack-line, the guy said, "Make sure you get far enough away from the bridge, and if you fall, don't fall towards the bridge. Otherwise; you'll hit your head on the steel... lots of blood." :3</div>
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Yep. I had done derped. I left the keys to my storage unit back in M203. I had a few hours before the facility closed for the day, so I ran down to an O'Reilly Auto Parts and bought some random tools that I turned into lock picking tools. </div>
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Luckily, the manager of the Public Storage facility dropped by just before they closed, and he used his lock picking drill and destroyed the lock in seconds. (It was really quite impressive. He just attacked the lock with the drill and the door opened. He's gotten quite good at it...)</div>
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And then... BATTLEBOTS! I drove up to Vallejo and met up with Charles, Dane, Adam and the crew for dinner at a little Italian pizza place. It was super cool! They had a flat Pac-Man arcade game from back in the day, and Adam's older brother beat it's high score :P. It was fun, we ended up eating our dinner on it, and continued to play.<br />
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But yeah! BATTLEBOTS! It's premier is TOMORROW and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LahPYo1TfAY">trailer</a> looks amazing!<br />
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I landed in Germany, after flying all night, and caught a train down to the Swiss border where I stayed with my host Family from a High School exchange program I did 5 years ago. More on that later...</div>
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I am sadly lacking in machine shops out here, so I've been entertaining myself in other ways. On my second day on the west coast I trecked from San Francisco up to Mare Island to watch the taping of the new season of Battlebots (go Charles!). I also saw Jaguar, Jume, and other friends up there. No pictures though, because it's all super secret and I forgot to take pictures anyway.<br />
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On my first weekend here I acquired a road bike through craigslist. I bought it from a very friendly Google employee who went so far as to grease everything and check all the bolts with a torque wrench before parting with it. Hopefully I won't get too attached to it and can sell it again at the end of the summer.<br />
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Went on a nice and foggy memorial day ride across the Golden Gate Bridge and around Hawk Hill.<br />
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The next Saturday I met up with Wesley in Orinda, and hiked up and down Mt. Diablo. Wesley was kind enough to not leave me in the dust, but I was pretty wrecked by the end.<br />
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I've done some hanging out in Glen Canyon Park. Pretty cool place in the middle of San Francisco:<br />
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Beginning the winding descent to the entrance. Had a minor incident on the way down involving an abrupt and very wet corner, but both my bike and myself came out relatively unscathed:</div>
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I turned 21 and went on a coffee-bar crawl with Katie, Yo, and Rodrigo. I had 5 good espressos at 5 different coffee places around the Mission. My mental acuity was relatively uncompromised.</div>
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Work at the moment involves 80% doing modeling and data analysis in matlab, and 20% running drive unit (what Tesla calls the inverter, motor, gearbox, and differential assembly) tests in the dynamometer lab. The dyno lab is a pretty cool place. There are dozens of in-house designed 90-kW power supplies, which can source or sink the 90-kW. Most of the dynos use three of these. There are dyno control stations with giant 4k monitors, running kind of derpy NI software. And motors everywhere. Sadly I don't get to touch any of the hardware, as all that work is done by full-time technicians. </div>
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Until next time!Ben Katzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15816221191617788028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-33821109467866949652015-06-08T22:38:00.001-07:002015-06-08T22:38:18.785-07:00Jennie and Weaver Lake backpacking trip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I decided to go to the mountains after a long time of not going. Jennie and Weaver Lake loop trail is east of Fresno in the Sierras bordering Sequoia National Park. It is ~15 miles long, has fairly minimal elevation gain, and features two stunning alpine lakes, making it a pretty ideal weekend adventure. In addition to being outside, this trip gave me an opportunity to test some homemade gear, which I want to use on a longer backpacking trip later this summer.<br />
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The trip had an interesting start. In a surprising turn of events, Putz's own Arka decided to join the backpacking trip after flying in from Russia or wherever the night before. Instead of heading to the trailhead early Friday, we shopped for some last minute gear and food. We didn't actually make it to the trailhead until 4:30pm - right as the rain/snow/hail/thunder storm started. After a mad scramble to put on rain gear, we hit the trail.<br />
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Here is a photo of Arka looking sad while it snows. Soon after this photo, he came to the realization that he had not packed appropriately for this trip, and decided to turn back. Don't feel too sorry for him though, he later went on to have a lovely weekend fishing at Hume lake with a friendly vacationing family.<br />
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The next morning, while walking, I took a selfie.<br />
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I used a Sawyer Mini inline water filter, attached it to a silnylon bag I sewed, and made a gravity water filter. It is very light compared to a pump and seems to work great. Here it is in action, hanging from a tree on the left at Weaver Lake.</div>
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Weaver Lake was so beautiful, and I was sorry to leave it so soon.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Cruftbike continues to accrue miles. Seven each way, five days a week. and that’s just the baseline. Every part of the bike is at least secondhand. I respect it, its numerous ball bearings, its sinewy cables, and its clapped-out chain. Brakes in good shape? Tires hard? let’s ride. I feel a warm optimism to know that bicycles exist in great numbers, and that their parts are plentiful and interchangeable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">At the 9-5 I make and modify some real wonky looking hunks of metal in the machine shop. I am working with <a href="http://www.pika-energy.com/">a bunch of people</a> to make affordable, reliable wind turbines for your back yard.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I got my other bike running and legal back in Boston last weekend. Carbs cleaned, new tires, tank de-rusted (mostly). An inline fuel filter keeps us moving. My first good ride after the MSF course was the trip back up to Portland. I split it between route 1, I-295, and I-95. We got there in one piece with no hiccups.<br /><a href="http://nkirkby.scripts.mit.edu/nk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1128.jpg"><img alt="the price for true freedom is eternal vigilance" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1245" src="http://nkirkby.scripts.mit.edu/nk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1128-300x225.jpg" height="225" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><br />there’s something special about tinkering with the innards of the thing that hauls you down the freeway at speeds that walking feet can’t comprehend. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I took this picture at a Goodwill in south Portland. it seems that cheapos on decade old ninja 250s shop at goodwill and get 80 MPG.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://nkirkby.scripts.mit.edu/nk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1151.jpg"><img alt="at goodwill. frugal riders ride ninja 250s" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1251" src="http://nkirkby.scripts.mit.edu/nk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1151-300x225.jpg" height="225" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Portland is pretty small compared to Boston. It’s a short ride on either bike to get out of the city and feel like it too.<br /><a href="http://nkirkby.scripts.mit.edu/nk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1068.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1068" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1237" src="http://nkirkby.scripts.mit.edu/nk/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1068-300x225.jpg" height="225" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">machining by day, scrounging and reading by night. spacing and wandering on weekends. yeah, I’d say it’s summer.</span></div>
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Hello from Shanghai! As you may know I'm
interning this summer in China, but i get the weekends off (kinda) to go
travel. This past weekend I went to Xi'an to see the Terra Cotta
soldiers. There are 8,000 soldiers in total to protect the dead emperor
of China who's buried in a tomb near by. The soldiers include foot
soldiers, generals, and kneeling archers. When the soldiers were found
they were in pieces because the wooden roof above them had collapsed and
the 5m of dirt above them crushed the soldiers. All of the whole
soldiers today have been rebuilt. It can take a year to rebuild a
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Tomb 1 filled with soldiers, the solders in the front have been rebuilt </div>
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What the soldiers looked like when they were found </div>
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Annie LaBinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08116119065759047998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-21585538668644509322014-06-24T10:48:00.002-07:002014-06-24T10:48:58.025-07:00Nancy: Summer 2014 UpdatesHello,<br />
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I went backpacking with Judy, James, and Marcela, and saw some ponies. It was a 5 day long trip, 40 miles, over the Appalachian Trail in Virginia.<br />
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Last week I went sea kayaking out to an island at night and camped there<br />
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We built adorable robots for 6.01, but they aren't going to be using them :( sorry folks, we fell prey to murphy's law<br />
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The boat was moved to the tune of a few hundred dollars. We are still trying to get it titled and registered and work on it to finish it up so we can sail to boston harbor islands this summer with friends and go camping >__<<br />
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That's all for now. See you all around! Excited there's so much activity on the blog lately.nrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15422385347170954353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-39882271088962000222014-06-18T15:41:00.003-07:002014-06-18T15:43:33.010-07:00A Taste of ItalyAs some of you may know, I have recently departed Boston to fuck around for half a year before moving to the bay area like all good little software engineers end up doing. My first stop was a post-graduation trip (for Angela, just a ... I don't know. Post-whatever-the-fuck-I've-been-doing trip for me) to Italy. I've been blogging over at <a href="http://bummingin.blogspot.com/">http://bummingin.blogspot.com/</a>, but I thought I'd review some choice highlights here.<br />
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1) Dicks. So many dicks. There will be even more dicks in the future in the post on visiting Pompeii. Like literal dick windchimes with little dick arms and wings AND THEIR OWN PERSONAL SMALLER DICKS.<br />
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Yes, Putz. You will be receiving this postcard <strike>shortly</strike> at some point.<br />
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2) Angela and I found our future selves on the streets on Venice. Oops.<br />
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3) We visited a place named the Doge's palace. Angela giggled every time. No we have no idea how it's actually pronounced.<br />
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4) LITERAL BLOOD IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL. EW. Also, anxiety attacks.<br />
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5) Gelato!<br />
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Love you all! I've only been drunk for about 30% of this trip, so you should be proud.<br />
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I'm back in Houston for the summer! Spent the week before in California but that's another blog post for another time. Last Saturday, I played a beach ultimate tournament down in Galveston with a mixed club team in Houston. The theme was 80's throwback and so we looked awesome. As you can see for yourself.<br />
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Then Monday was the first day of work! After driving an hour in the morning I finally got here. Halliburton's Headquarters is sooo much nicer than I thought it would be. This is where I'll be working: The Technology Center. I'm interning in the Wireline & Perforating Product Service Line which is basically used to lower tools and measure conditions down an oil well. <br />
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But! For all of Monday and Tuesday I spent all my time in this building across this pretty lake going through Intern Orientation which was very loooonggg and all about safety and such. This place is the epitome of corporate America. The dress code is pretty strict but so far I haven't had to punch anyone for my hair. There's also a fancy cafeteria and a gym on campus! This place isn't Google - so still have to pay for the food, but it's still a lot nicer than I was expecting....I can see why it's soo lucrative to work here... </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138880451342801282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-32664570427787483672014-06-08T20:10:00.000-07:002014-06-08T20:10:15.572-07:00The BeginningToday Mark, Jaguar, and I went to the Haight Ashbury Street Fair. Jaguar and I have not been to Haight Street since our first day in San Francisco, when we wandered into the neighborhood and in the span of several minutes walked by two very old, very naked dudes, and a guy holding a sign that read "Smile if you masturbate!"<br />
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Nothing about the street fair was too out of the ordinary, yet the juxtaposition of the gentrified population and the tiny, Bohemian booths amused me. I would break down the crowd's demographic as 80% yuppie, 19.4% elderly hippie, and .6% putz.</div>
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We also went to In-N-Out today. Spatz told me to order a "grilled cheese animal style," so I did. It turns out their secret menu is real. I didn't take any photos there, so here are more photos of the street fair.<br />
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What has life been like in Cambridge, MA lately? Hot, hot, and hot.<br />
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Thus, I have been spending a lot of time at work.<br />
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I am start-trolling this summer, with two of my friends, one from middle school and one from MIT.<br />
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Oh gosh the food. They feed us a few times a week and it is excellent. I have also discovered the joy of the food trucks and also beantown taquiera. This summer is eat-out bonanza or something, because Hanna keeps giving me really strong stares when I do my usual dry cereal-instant noodle combination. >.> but my guilt at spending money on eating out instead of spending projects means I will probably find some other solution soon, since I don't think I can get rid of my guilt. (any advice, fellow putzen, on that?)<br />
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Oh the other thing I am doing is helping out with a go-kart class. The students are from singapore and the other day they bought a giant lobster instead of a cake for one of the student's birthdays:<br />
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I am excited to see how all their go-karts turn out. :3<br />
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Oh also I went to help staff swapfest:<br />
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And helped a tiny bit with the reorganization of MITERS. The back right corner used to be a loft with spare stock and now has awesome shelving we crufted from the physics department.<br />
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Yea so my life actually has been a lot of same old, same old. Maybe someday soon I will do more sightseeing around Boston.nrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15422385347170954353noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-39083608454811585212013-05-30T10:13:00.001-07:002013-05-30T10:16:43.928-07:00Froshoclock Trip (Putz Seniors), May 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Putz seniors made a trip to pennsylvania this past week. Here's how we fared after a week without internet.</div>
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Actually, we arrived in the dead of night at 2 am. But this is where we stayed (picture taken on the last day). Jenelle's uncle brought us boats but we didn't end up using them because it was raining one of the days we had free.<br />
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There were cows in this field, along with their cute calves that looked like sheep because the bull was white and all the calves were white, but I seem to have managed to not take a picture of them.<br />
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We were also well-prepared with a lot of card games...<br />
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Manyu, making waffles for everyone! Yay! Not that anyone else was awake before like 3pm.<br />
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There was a memorial to soldiers at the supermarket we stopped at.<br />
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James is laughing because I am taking pictures all the time. But I have no shame! Maybe! I mean without me taking pictures you wouldn't have this blog post. So there.<br />
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Sentinels saving the multiverse! It was even a kickstarted game initially. Oh man. I love this game. I was a skeptic, but now I am a believer in card games.<br />
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It was Jonte's birthday so we made chocolate chip cookie cake.<br />
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Hamburgers happened around a cookfire. Meat from one of the cows that would have grazed 100 yards away from us.<br />
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We took a hike and visited a graveyard on a hilltop. Then we carefully avoided trampling crops and walked in the Tall Grass looking for pokemon. Err. I mean. We walked.<br />
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More card games (ticket to ride this time). And Manyu making funny faces at the camera.<br />
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The next day we did sightseeing. We visited the Flight 93 memorial.<br />
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There were laseretched placards from a nearby middle school there.<br />
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Then the Johsntown flood memorial.<br />
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This is us oohing and ahhing over the LED display representation of the flood events.<br />
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Motorized inclined plane, for transporting cars way high up the mountainside.<br />
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More sentinels! Do you see how many villain cards came out?? We... did not win this round.<br />
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Then Jonte, James, Manyu, and I went on a geocache finding adventure. We found the ruins of a house too.<br />
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Jonte had his out-of-control UA shades on, not indoors for once.<br />
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After a lot of bushwacking that we didn't expect (we essentially went in a straight line on the GPS, and then found the cache next to the side of a road...) we found the geocache!<br />
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and we added our name to the list. Frosh O'clock!<br />
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It was near some nice rapids.<br />
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This is where I discover how out of shape I am... I was pretty exhausted by climbing back up to the farmhouse.<br />
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At least it was pretty :)<br />
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The next morning Jonte made biscuits and then we (one of the cars) headed out.<br />
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Such a pretty farmhouse.<br />
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After 12.5 hours we made it back to MIT around 10pm and I was reunited with the internet. Yay!<br />
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<br />nrobothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15422385347170954353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-55549869248922445152012-07-11T09:50:00.002-07:002012-07-11T09:50:28.711-07:00Tall Ship SailingNow that I finally have something to post, I'm going to ignore the apparent lack of traffic on this blog and put it up anyway!<br />
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I don't get to spend 10 days as the crew of a tall ship research vessel normally, anyway.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Note: all pictures taken by Post-Doc named Robert. I didn't have a camera with me at the time.</span> <br />
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<i>Welcome to the Corwith Cramer, tall ship meant for about 40 people. We had 29.</i></div>
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I sailed with about 11 other Joint Program students and a crew consisting of the Captain, three Mates, five Deckhands, and a couple others (Steward for the food, of course) on one of the most ambitious sampling voyages in the ship's history. We had 33 stations on the Atlantic Shelf Break to hit in 10 days!</div>
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<i>Science! Most of the stations involved getting this CTD carousel in and out of the water--then collecting and processing whatever samples we gathered.</i></div>
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<i>Class--learning about inclement weather. Good thing, too: one night we tried a deployment with a lightning storm on the horizon! Putting a metal carousel into water which is connected to the boat by a metal wire is </i>not<i> the ideal activity for that situation.</i></div>
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<i>Charismatic megafauna!! Or, in layman's terms, DOLPHINS!</i></div>
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The experience was both amazing and unnerving; if possible, it gave me a more screwed up sleep schedule than MIT. We were divided into three watches, and each watch alternated Science and Deck in a single day. Some days I'd be on from 7 am - 1 pm and 12 am - 3 am. Other days it'd be 1 pm - 7 pm and 3 am - 7 am. I'm still feeling the effects of that one.</div>
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<br /></div>HychenJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321155900996432669noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-71513159118041894302011-08-14T16:56:00.000-07:002011-08-14T17:27:16.595-07:00lbarnes and jfeather at the summit of the south sister, OR<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPr5CJ5WMA0ttqD9yPLJUGM4_mTAvkGTGrVvlzPijJ23ff-ZOIV0QAJ9mSSQkFijl2kcdjXVJWxCuEjMOZk0meEkp0ca4twDlNvgp60XOrZ7czPICEioYd8W1p04Q6x44_ccU41Bl4C1NV/s1600/IMG_3507.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPr5CJ5WMA0ttqD9yPLJUGM4_mTAvkGTGrVvlzPijJ23ff-ZOIV0QAJ9mSSQkFijl2kcdjXVJWxCuEjMOZk0meEkp0ca4twDlNvgp60XOrZ7czPICEioYd8W1p04Q6x44_ccU41Bl4C1NV/s320/IMG_3507.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640865156063942018" border="0" /></a>We left at 6am and climbed from 5k to 10.5k feet. The trail was still covered with ice for most of the climb and it took us about five and a half hours to reach the top. The way down we spent sliding on our butts for several thousand feet of elevation. A couple days later and we are both still incapable of walking up stairs.
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<br />Jenellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12936710285346457309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-73074867159832656852011-08-07T17:54:00.000-07:002011-08-07T17:55:01.121-07:00RJ sez"I didn't think narwhals were real until just now....I thought they came from the internet...like Reddit"Marie McGrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16118060097387648141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-48351956897662603062011-07-21T15:45:00.000-07:002011-07-21T15:50:24.050-07:00Hurrison sez..."That's America, man. You can beat up black people and Vietnamese people in Southie and still become a movie star".<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_WahlbergMarie McGrawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16118060097387648141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520336066872582552.post-29300906892505079762011-07-14T20:01:00.001-07:002011-07-16T14:08:39.180-07:00Fourth of July<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHeDOTiqlxgk5u0ratfRdDK34xUHcHDgZ2LcDJ9M1A3xhKjosYJJjpX8kIHtqUDVtle_vukSKnLrMmzHDX1xTc_W58cxQOxDGiL0f4qBN8ty3HmoZRRIidyaAjU_k84uZLWSlKzR0/s1600/lostcoast3.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHeDOTiqlxgk5u0ratfRdDK34xUHcHDgZ2LcDJ9M1A3xhKjosYJJjpX8kIHtqUDVtle_vukSKnLrMmzHDX1xTc_W58cxQOxDGiL0f4qBN8ty3HmoZRRIidyaAjU_k84uZLWSlKzR0/s320/lostcoast3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630053603929651346" border="0" /></a> Over the long weekend, Dan, Chenxia Liu, Scott Johnston, and I decided to go hiking in the King Range Recreation Area. So we drove the many miles and hours from the Bay up to Shelter Cove, tightened down our packs, locked the Prius and started out. Almost all of our hike was on the beach the first day, causing us to make slow progress on the sand. As we hiked though, the area afforded continuous views of California's lovely Pacific coast.<br /><br /><br />Throughout the day, we say such strange and miraculous things as people with full backpacking packs as well as surfboards on their backs. After crossing many streams and walking all afternoon, we reached Big Flat camp and chose a site to stay in.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGq7cVWL67WEtpnllSpqtDd0gb8nnftDl4DTt5VZpNt1P6QW3z1ASPvIGxuDQ9lNSijEpe3JwqfhPlST7yuZHZ6Fp9260LLAnZMAHatph2-8pPe7nELlPE4qf8k48OYxfktY9UT90f/s1600/lostcoast9.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGq7cVWL67WEtpnllSpqtDd0gb8nnftDl4DTt5VZpNt1P6QW3z1ASPvIGxuDQ9lNSijEpe3JwqfhPlST7yuZHZ6Fp9260LLAnZMAHatph2-8pPe7nELlPE4qf8k48OYxfktY9UT90f/s320/lostcoast9.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630054289480581138" border="0" /></a>After pitching camp, making dinner, doing dishes, and stowing our food, we went to bed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH9pIjfJpGGWJGuLfaPIiVwEL-lXwXKF7eqk68LKzoe3Dn3ezoWsR1-ilGbjWoByrAd212p8IjgecA7CkY3fusVyrDhJ71ezpOyqI_BRPrFcPfzHHRVthsb3XkPhA5aVcoSYBX21Zt/s1600/lostcoast14.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH9pIjfJpGGWJGuLfaPIiVwEL-lXwXKF7eqk68LKzoe3Dn3ezoWsR1-ilGbjWoByrAd212p8IjgecA7CkY3fusVyrDhJ71ezpOyqI_BRPrFcPfzHHRVthsb3XkPhA5aVcoSYBX21Zt/s320/lostcoast14.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630054713543557458" border="0" /></a> The next morning we intended to hike to King's Peak but set out rather late.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3JP62tQqcZvl2uste5ioeOjPA2-6rNtmW15l-NGYNxNO3COyR_uvQtq8kNs4JU7FDy9hoL8fwejQD9LOaEDOWKWezFSOVl-oAh4eQEE9KtuOsxIWnnZ2rvUAIjHAON9R5rXGg-39c/s1600/lostcoast19.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3JP62tQqcZvl2uste5ioeOjPA2-6rNtmW15l-NGYNxNO3COyR_uvQtq8kNs4JU7FDy9hoL8fwejQD9LOaEDOWKWezFSOVl-oAh4eQEE9KtuOsxIWnnZ2rvUAIjHAON9R5rXGg-39c/s320/lostcoast19.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630054935175689346" border="0" /></a>The day was hot and our trail crossed too many streams for us to resist.<br /><br /><br /><br />After climbing at least 40 switchbacks, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjEULLK1lpMOwXw51CR0esq1XCAdFOL94ILFWAsb-jpauxY7tme3tf9Hy9IDmZ16uz-nMvFrJ66LV-Nw-njnvWcwrG4JjgznKdHxeqVQJrsb4X89bu47Dx1HVZ6asQbA-dw72MFJQ/s1600/lostcoast21.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjEULLK1lpMOwXw51CR0esq1XCAdFOL94ILFWAsb-jpauxY7tme3tf9Hy9IDmZ16uz-nMvFrJ66LV-Nw-njnvWcwrG4JjgznKdHxeqVQJrsb4X89bu47Dx1HVZ6asQbA-dw72MFJQ/s320/lostcoast21.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630055918974161378" border="0" /></a>time was running out so we turned back and headed home for dinner. Dan whistled and I sang "Sam Hall" on the way home.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMkzOYQ34ebJmg4QftQVaf0ytaAHIgnH7SoooOvnZKOynCkA1fZrD8vd9rEl_shcZUg5Q3i7-XKLUyKHwdc7gDLFLPrklxBejsEKzDuCsTWifQ6DgCfTCSyqrESiTXhTL61JDiQTt7/s1600/lostcoast31.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMkzOYQ34ebJmg4QftQVaf0ytaAHIgnH7SoooOvnZKOynCkA1fZrD8vd9rEl_shcZUg5Q3i7-XKLUyKHwdc7gDLFLPrklxBejsEKzDuCsTWifQ6DgCfTCSyqrESiTXhTL61JDiQTt7/s320/lostcoast31.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630056432251357666" border="0" /></a>That evening (Sunday), Dan and I were pumping water at the creek and a black bear came sauntering along on the opposite side. He's hard to see, but later he visited our camp. To give him his space, we all went and watched the sunset and the stars from the beach next to Dan's bridge. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXr482jYHT8bCu4_alGVnJMxWDHp_zoJs7xirWze7_FEiHSk5DbVrS6Cn6noufW0gElMU-7MTIJQI625bft9flf4HkjxBFstb5ozpwDvl7F2CTSrlcjnN9mRhbp2-I57f3eiHOOSR/s1600/lostcoast36.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXr482jYHT8bCu4_alGVnJMxWDHp_zoJs7xirWze7_FEiHSk5DbVrS6Cn6noufW0gElMU-7MTIJQI625bft9flf4HkjxBFstb5ozpwDvl7F2CTSrlcjnN9mRhbp2-I57f3eiHOOSR/s320/lostcoast36.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630056767648432978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The next morning we tried to pack up and get out before the tide started coming in, and we got through the narrow bit of the beach in record time. Made it to the trailhead, each person separated by about half a mile, got our requisite fish and chips, and rolled home to Sebastopol.lcshuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13362475808939067823noreply@blogger.com1