Well, it's been a long long time again and I'm sorry for the delay. We only had two days off our last shift and the week before that my parents were around! We ended up hiking I think 4 out of 5 days and a bunch of the photos are already up on my dad's facebook, but I've also added my own here. I brought them on our first Utah hike, which was cool to revisit, though I must say the hike was more pleasant in the early spring cool. My mom triumphed over her fear of ...

Sorry for the long absence... this may be a hodge podge of story telling, but they're all pretty entertaining stories none the less.First off, I'm thrilled to say that I've been awarded a $2,000 scholarship award from NOLS for my trip to India. I'm tremendously proud of what I wrote for it and may post it later on. Before, I did have my doubts about whether I was going to be able to go, but I feel that if NOLS believes in me, I should do my darndest to get there....

Our first day of vacation was almost 20 days ago (holy cats!) and I've procrasinated to the point where I know I'm going to have some difficulty remembering everything that we've done... but I might as well give it a shot, right? I got out of the field a couple weeks back when someone from work comes up to me and says "Nate's taken the next shift off, do you want to take it off too?" A little taken aback by the news, I decided to join Nate on whatever c...