September 2007
The Archives
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09.10.07i’m in your lava tubez, clogging ur internetzYesterday was fun. Sarah, Nate, and I used each other as excuses to skip most of church and we headed up to the lava tube caves near Flagstaff. It was basically just a whole in the ground from the surface, but as you went down in it it leveled out and became a bit less rocky. It was pretty cold. According to the sign. It is 32 degrees near the entrance, but as you go further back it warms up considerably. And by considerably, I mean 50's-ish. It was my first time in a cave ...
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09.09.07california 2007I remember listening to this story on "This American Life" on NPR about roadtrips and about how often we expect that we'll gain some deep insight or great self understanding on roadtrips. How could you not? Alone for hours with nothing but your thoughts and possibly some music. More often, however, we gain no great insight at all. Rather, we often arrive at our destination tired, stiff, and a little crabby. I wasn't crabby when I pulled into Sarah's apartment's parking lot, but I also had gained no great insight into myself or anything else, ...