View from Homewood Mtn
View from Homewood Mtn
Originally uploaded by jono1515.
Friday, January 20, 2006
View from Homewood Mtn
View from Homewood Mtn
Originally uploaded by jono1515.
You can see a rainbow in between the two trees on the left.
Saturday, January 14, 2006
January 2006
It's been a while since I've put any updates on here, so here's what's been going on.
I left the Imperial Valley job a week before Christmas. The last 2 days down there we didn't really work, so one day I went offroading with a co-worker in his old Jeep and the next day we went down to Mexico. Mexico was interesting, we walked across from Calexico on the US side to Mexicali on the Mexican side. Mexicali is the capital of the Mexican state Baja California. It's a decent sized city but feels very poor. I learned just how little Spanish I know after 4 years in high school and a year of advanced coversational Spanish in university. I'm definitly going to go back down there and hopefully I'll be able to spend more time and actually communicate with people.
I was in Saratoga for just about 3 full weeks. I had a really good time, it was so good to see my family and friends back in New York. I ended up staying a few days longer than I had planned because there were so many things I wanted to do before coming back to California.
I got back to California last Saturday and as soon as I got to San Diego, I retrieved my car from my friend's place and drove about 6 of the 11 hours back to Tahoe. Coming into Tahoe, going over the mountains, was spectacular. The snow banks at the highest elevations were like 15ft high on the sides of the roads. It was intimidating driving past them considering they were also on like 30degree slopes and there were all sorts of avalanche warnings. I got here though and down at lake level it had rained the week before and there was only about 2 inches of snow on the ground. That's all changing right now because it's snowed about 6 inches this afternoon. I ended up not doing anything today aside from buying some stools for my bar and an old road bike from the thrift shop around the corner from my house. They have tire chain requirement on the roads right now so I'm just waiting it out.
I go back to work sometime this week, up in the Geysers living in my favorite place - Cobb. It will be good to be back to work since it'll have been over a month, but the Geysers are my least favorite place to work.
I'm still planning on heading to Taiwan to teach English this summer. I've been talking with my friend over there and I'm starting to get excited about it. It should be a lot of fun.
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