Brr its cold

Well I am here in MN and it is definitely colder here than in my mountians of CA.

The drive home went well. I had nice weather the whole way....well a little bit of rain but no snow storms.

I am glad to be back at my house....although all I can think about is what I want to do to it. I have so many little and big things to do... my first line of buisness it to get cable and internet hooked up. yes that is why there is a lack of posts from me ..no way to post them.

well here are a few pictures from my stop in Arches National park on the way back home. Enjoy

Richfield Utah

Thats were I made it to yesterday.....Not a very big town, but a place to stay. Good news is today is going to be a short driving day. I found out that my friend Elaine from tech is going to be in moab utah, which is right along my way. So i am going to stop and see her. I havenever been to moab and i dont know why I haven't. There are 2 national parks there so I figure why not stop for the day.

I have realized that my statelite radio saves me. I dont know how I drove across the country before I bought it.....it is great. so much to listen to and it never goes away.

well just wanted to let everyone know where I am.

Only 1 more day!!!

It took a little work on my part but, I convinced my bosses to let me be done on Friday. So yes tommorow is my last day of work.

So on Sat morning I will be headed across the country. To all of you who live along the way I am sad to say this but unfortunately this year I dont have time to make any stops or visit anybody, it is pretty much going to be a get in the car and drive type of road trip. I want to make it home in time for thanksgiving and to renew my drivers liscence before it expires.


needless to say my car is pretty much packed up and ready to go. My next blog will be from who knows where.

in case you haven't figured it out

I am pretty sure that I am crazy!!!

Not that it is a bad thing. The reason I say this is because I ran a half marathon yesterday without training for it at all. Ok I guess I shouldn't say not training at all I guess you could consider work as training...although I couldn't tell you the last time we did a long run...or a hard run for that matter...and the last couple of fires we were on we didn't do a lot of hiking.

The race yesterday went pretty well. I finished in 1hr 58minutes....which was 4 minutes faster than what I did last year. I am definitely sore today. I thought I was going to die around mile 9 of the race... I was doing good till then but at the point I felt like my one calf muscle was going to explode so I slowed down a little at the point. 2 other guys that work on my crew ran it as well as a couple of other people from the park. I thought we were going to have torun in the rain but it stoppped raining right before the race and didn't start again til like an hour after we finished.

All in all the race went well, although it makes me wonder how well I could do if a actually trained for these things.....

Oh yeah the best part was that when you finished you got an ice cream sunday...who doesn't love ice cream!!!!!

Its all over( well almost)

Yes that is right my fire season is over. We laid the crew off yesterday!!!!! That means that I only have a week or two left. I have lots I could say about this season but I don't think that I want to do that here......cuz you never know who could be reading this.

Anyway I have been gone for a while and yes I was down on the fires in Southern Cali. I was not on the ones in San Diego... We were assigned to the Santiago fire near Orange, CA. I am sure that you saw it on the news. it was a pretty big news maker mostly because it was an arson fire. Dont worry Ill blog about it later and post some pictures.... I just don't feel like doing it right now. It was nice to go on one last fire it helped out our total overtime for the season. Can you guess how many hours of overtime we ended up with this season. If you think you have any idea post a comment and later I will let you all know how many we did get. Laura (sis) and maura you guys can not guess that wouldn't be fair.

Anyway I have a four day weekend I am gonna pack and get some things done for when I am done, although I still dont know when that will be. I am hoping to be done the 16th but might not be done until the 21st so that would mean I would be driving home over thanksgiving and that would pretty much suck. So we will see how lucky I get.

lets see what else might I do this weekend. Oh maura, ben and I may go see into the wild tonight and then afterwards I may go hang out with one of the guys who was on the crew with me in 2004....he is in town on his way back to Colorado after his season was done, and then on Sunday I might run a half marathon. I am not sure about running it since we haven't run to much lately. I know that I could finish it no problem but I don't know how fast I would be. I still have the cross-country and track runner in me and I would be disappointed in myself if I ran it slower than the last time I ran one. Oh well we will see. Yes I know I am crazy running 13.1 miles without training.

oh yeah I got poison oak the worst that I have ever gotten it on this last fire it was crazy maybe Ill put up a picture but you wont recognize me. This week I spent forever on our crew slides how. I am happy with how it turned out......but it would have been better if I didn't have to do most of it in 2 days...I seriously worked on it for 20hrs straight one day.....maybe if I get good ill put a little clip of it on youtube but I dont know if I am that talented.

Thats all I got for now...but I will post about the fire soon.