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    Out and About

    July 11, 2004 - By 

    Okay, so today we’re headed to The Morton Arboretum – it’s a hot, muggy day so we’re taking lots of water along, and also our workout stuff with the goal of hitting the health club and cooling off in the swimming pool. We’re meeting Steve and making our stealthy approach in one vehicle, so as not to alarm the trees. The original plan was to go to the Ren Faire, but David nixed that on account of aforesaid mugginess and all the people and turkeylegs abounding. And we’re on our way out the door. More later.

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    Oxford Experience Summer School

    June 13, 2004 - By 

    My very dear friend Ellen lives in Germany – her husband David Beard is the Academic Director for the Oxford Experience, a study program that takes place in Oxford each summer. This would be SO cool – meals are taken in the Great Hall at Christ Church, which was the setting for the dining hall scenes in the Harry Potter movies. They have a really interesting program of subjects, and I wish that I could do this. Maybe some year. Ellen has been telling me about these for years, and each year I grow increasingly more and more envious. I’d…

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    Muggy Day At Starved Rock

    June 12, 2004 - By 

    A long-planned hike to Starved Rock today nearly came to naught because I, unlike Ronnie, am not the Great Communicator. However, we made it to the park and hiked, which consisted mostly of walking up and down stairs and along boardwalks. There are normal trails also, but the area is underlain by a layer of soft sandstone that erodes VERY easily, so the high-traffic areas are boarded. We met up with Steve and drove down to Starved Rock to join Jill and her friend Gina. I screwed up by not checking directly with Steve to be clear on a change…

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    Yellowstone Geysers: Study

    June 2, 2004 - By 

    A major earthquake in Alaska in 2002 set off lots of smaller quakes in the Yellowstone National Park more than 2,000 miles away, say scientists. Within hours geysers in the park changed their eruption patterns, according to the journal Geology. Very glad to run across this article. I’d heard about the changes that happened to the geysers, it’s interesting that they connected it with such a distant earthquake event. And of course, it reminds me of that ski trip from hell in Yellowstone. I think winter after next I’ll be ready for a return to the Snow Lodge.

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    Gomi Day

    May 31, 2004 - By 

    It was “gomi” (garbage) day in Joi Ito’s community – a day when everyone gets together to clean up trash and unwanted junk that’s been illegally dumped. On my trip to Japan (this was in about 1993), I went hiking on Gomiyama – in other words, I found a trail that went up through the bamboo forests behind one of the shrines in Matsuyama on Shikoku.

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    Again with the “well, finally”

    May 31, 2004 - By 

    At long last another entry has gone up for the September trip to Britain. It only needed some images and some tweaking but of course it had to lie around being a draft for more than a month. Well, it’s there now, and there’s really only one big entry left, which will cover the rest of our time hiking in Yorkshire, and the 2 nights we spent in London at the end of the trip. And then the thing will be done, aside from a few things that come after our return home.

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    Road Trip Photo Gallery

    May 27, 2004 - By 

    I finally had a chance to get the newest photo gallery started – with a lot of help from David. It covers the epic trip to Colorado and Utah, with the inevitable (and intervening) Nebraska thrown in at the end. There are a LOT of photos in there. Some of them I tinkered with – resized, cropped and so on. Most I didn’t mess with. I haven’t decided which ones I’d like to print out and frame. This photo got Photoshopped a little – it looked good except for one of those &*#!@ roadside reflector wands right in the middle.…

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    Photos from the Road

    May 21, 2004 - By 

    Aw! David started blogging again, although he moved Geeky Ramblings over to WordPress, owing to not wanting to have multiple authors on Moveable Type. He’s already uploaded all of the trip photos from his camera, the excellent Canon EOS Digital Rebel. I’m taking more time to tinker with mine. I’ll get my gallery uploaded later on. In the meantime, his photos are in RoadTrip2004 Disregard all the horrible full-figure shots of me, look only at the scenery and flowers.