Flag day

Spent a few blissful days in Flag with Tara. Biked, climbed, Snowboarded and did a lot of things that I didn't do enough of while I lived there. Came back home to a lonely apartment, was kind of bummed. Living alone sucks. Luckilly, San Diego has an entirely different set of outdoor activities that keep me going. Did my bay run, but hit a PR on it without really trying today. Maybe I'll just chalk it up to a few days at altitude. Came to work and saw a lot of my friends, and suddenly home feels like home again.

I've got to say, there are some crazy nice people in Flag. Besides Tara, got to see Adam, David, the Will/Tim/Nate/Scott combo, John (happy birthday dude!) and a few others that I randomly ran into. People seem happy here, and most are relatively friendly, but the general vibe is pretty relaxed up on the mountain. I can't wait till my next visit out there...maybe I'll have a new bike by then so everyone will stop giving me crap about my current hooptie. (Don't worry bikey, I still love you, you've taken me this far, I'm not going to scrap you. You'll just get turned into a single speed love machine.)

Addendum: I also had some great meals on my little AZ jaunt. Diablo burger is leaps and bounds better than Rockys...which I hate to admit, but yeah, the elvis buger (w/ bacon, plantains and spicy peanut butter in addition to amazing local burger meat) blew my mind so much I almost scheduled an IR appointment for a coiling. The Tinderbox was also great. Nice to see well presented foodie fodder more often up there.

I should also add that I learned a lot on this trip. I learned a lot more about the sports I'm getting back into, a lot about Tara, and even clued into a lot about how to make sense of the things I've been feeling lately. Not neccessarily epipany grade stuff, but still good insights.

One of the things I've been thinking a lot about lately is the oppurtunity to possibly go to Haitai and do some relief work with some MDs and RNs from FMC. I signed up, got the time off of work, and now am just waiting...and waiting, and waiting for some kind of response. We'll see how this goes, wish me luck...