We began the Questival adventure race at 7pm on Friday, and since the big kick-off party we have searched for street art, entered a boardroom after hours, driven to Wyoming where we attempted to Karaeoke to a song we barely knew, found the quintessential roadside diner, gotten kicked out of Red Rocks ampetheather, aaand hiked to the top of table mountain for a gorgeous sunrise over Denver. And that was just the first day!!!! Can't wait to see where day 2 leads.

Fireflies! I had forgotten these existed, having not been on the East Coast for years, but while we were walking back to the apartment on my first night in D.C. they were lighting up the bushes with their twinkling bottoms. That was my first reminder that I had left the West Coast behind for a while. The next was the weather. Although I thankfully avoided the hot and sticky East Coast summer, the air here is still heavier than Davis, and the fantastic lightning ...