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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 29, 2009

Travels: Red Rock Canyon State Park

I’m going to go out on a limb and speculate that most of you have seen California’s Red Rock Canyon State Park (Wikipedia Page here). No, really, you probably have.

RRCSP pops up out of nowhere along California’s Highway 14. One moment you’re rocketing along through the flat scrub of the Mojave Desert, having just passed through the town of Mojave itself (launching place of both the Rutan Voyager and SpaceShipOne) when suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, you’re crossing through a canyon filled with various shades of red, white and pink rock, slanted at steep angles and bizarrely weathered.

Then, as suddenly as it was there, it’s gone a couple of minutes later.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 27, 2009

Dental Confusion

I had absolutely the strangest experience today. At the dentist’s office, no less.

I mean, it wasn’t a bad experience by any means, just…

…weird.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 22, 2009

What We’re Losing

It’s not often I post about books. Maybe because I don’t have the time to read nearly as many as I’d like (the list of books to be checked out from the library alone would make your head spin), or because I don’t consider myself much of a book reviewer, or simply because a number of books I’ve read lately, while interesting, haven’t really warranted passing along.

So, happy day then that I come across a book that motivates me to sit down and write a post about it, and encourage y’all to read it, eh?

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 20, 2009

HIKE: Sugarloaf Mountain

From a distance, Sugarloaf Mountain isn’t much to look at. The peak, located at the end of an undulating ridgeline and standing at nearly 10,000 feet, certainly doesn’t have the traditional “peak” shape. Nevertheless, it’s a worthwhile and rewarding climb.

The view from the top of Sugarloaf Mountain takes in the eastern half of the San Bernardino mountains, looking down over Big Bear Lake and the Santa Ana River Canyon, with San Gorgonio Mountain dominating the south side of the canyon

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 16, 2009

Friday Sillyness: The English Paper

Cleaning out some old files this week, I ran across this gem that had been e-mailed to me back in college, which is both funny and has the advantage of quite possibly being true (link at the end).

It also speaks more to males vs. females than most books on the subject.

Enjoy.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 14, 2009

Summer Cleaning

Occasionally one looks at one’s bookshelves and thinks “Hm, do I really need to be keeping that any more?”

Well, maybe not so much with books. Heck, someday I would love to have a small house, with a really BIG library. So there’s not many books I want to get rid of, naturally.

But magazines? Especially old magazines, long past their expiration date? Yeah, those are a little bit easier to get rid of.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 12, 2009

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 9, 2009

Cheater

Mel Heth’s post a couple of days ago reminded me of a campfire many years back.

I was traveling solo on the North Coast, in the redwoods. I’d stopped in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, staying in the campground there next to the Visitor Center.

I unloaded the Corolla, set up the tent, and went about making dinner. After dinner, I went over to the campground entrance and picked up a bundle of firewood for a fire that night.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 8, 2009

Is It Wrong?

Now that all is said and done (well, except the protracted legal battle, that is), can I just ask: is it wrong that I felt so little about the whole MJ thing?

Is it wrong that I didn’t feel the whole rush of feelings that everyone interviewed on TV felt? That I didn’t feel fundamentally shaken by his passing?

That, while I’m sorry for his family’s loss (as I would be for anyone’s), his death didn’t have much impact on my life? Had no desire to watch the funeral at Staples Center on TV, much less rush down there myself?

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Posted by: GeekHiker | July 6, 2009