Posts Tagged ‘mountain biking’
Occasionally in life, things just fall into place. That’s how I feel about our recent move from Idaho to Colorado, and I couldn’t be happier with how everything has turned out. Here are the highlights:
- A new job : After 3 months of searching, I accepted a position with Seagate in Longmont, Colorado. The new job has gotten off to a great start. I’m excited about the work (ASIC Verification for SSD drives), I like my boss and coworkers, I’m happy with the pay and benefits, and the location is perfect. And an added bonus: part of my team works in Shakopee, MN only 20 minutes from my parents’ house. This means I can occasionally work remotely from that site while visiting family and friends.
- A new home : At the last minute, we found a rental condo in a NE Boulder community called “Gunbarrel”. We are loving this area – we have easy access to both Boulder and my job in Longmont, yet are surrounded by farms, open space hiking and biking trails, and great mountain views. While the rental is only temporary, we’re thinking about sticking to this area when we search for a new place.
- Boise House – SOLD! After only 3 days on the market, we accepted a full-price offer on our house in Boise. We credit this to the perfect combination of a nice house in a great location, setting the right price, a lot of preparation, presentation and staging, and a good dose of luck.
- Enjoying the Rockies : With a little bit of summer left when we arrived, we were able to get in some mountain biking and hiking. With winter is in full swing, we’ve been hitting the slopes, and Colorado snow has not disappointed us! (more…)
Unfortunately, moving on in life means leaving something behind. Here’s a few things that Ben and I will miss the most about Idaho:
Goodbye Boise, we'll miss you
Thursday Night Mountain Biking
For 7 years we’ve been mountain biking on Thursday nights with a fun group of friends, usually followed by pizza and beer. Thursday night will never be the same again…
HP Lunch Volleyball
Summer at HP means volleyball! During lunch I ducked out of work to play sand and grass volleyball. Any volleyball skills I may have, I owe to these guys. They’re awesome players and friends, and I will never forget them.
Friends and Coworkers
Ben and I have gotten to know a lot of really great people here in Boise. The hardest part of saying goodbye is knowing that we’re losing the potential of spending more time with them. To all of our friends and coworkers – we will miss you!
Alonna’s Soccer Team
I’ve had a blast playing on a women’s soccer team in Boise. Anything we lack in skills we’ve more than made up for by running our butts off and never giving up. Go Bombers!
Ridges to Rivers trail system
They just keep getting better – (more…)
I know, I know, we’ve been quiet lately. Returning home from our year of traveling has been a bit of an adjustment. While it was exciting to return home to our things and see our friends and family, putting the trip behind me and returning to work was harder than I expected. But after 4 weeks on the job I’m starting to get the hang of it, and feeling pretty good about life again! Meanwhile, Ben and I have had a great summer… here’s a few highlights.
Mountain Biking
The first bunch of photos is from our annual camping trip to Stanley, Idaho with our HP biking group. The rest are (more…)
The Blue Mountains are a 2 hour train ride from Sydney and full of great scenery and hiking. We spent a few days in the small town of Katoomba to enjoy the area. I had thought that “Blue Mountains” was just a name, but looking out over the valley the mountains really are a misty blue color.
The Blue Mountains
One of the days we hiked to Wentworth Falls, one of the more interesting waterfalls I’ve ever seen. We hiked across the top of the waterfall, then down really steep stairs to a middle level, and then across the valley on a path along the cliff. It was very cool.
Another day (more…)
Leaving the beautiful West Coast, Ben and I headed towards Wanaka on a scenic drive past mountains, rivers and lakes.
Wanaka
We immediately fell in love with Wanaka. Just 2 hours drive from the utlra-touristy Queenstown, we found it to be a low-key oasis with beautiful scenery, a cute and live-able town, and plenty of fun outdoor activities to keep anyone happy. If we ever decided to live outside the US (unlikely), I’m pretty sure this would be the place.
We stayed a few nights in Wanaka, enjoying (more…)
Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand
Ben and I have searched the globe for good mountain biking, but have failed to find anything worthwhile outside of the US… until now. Yesterday we rented full-suspension bikes and rode one section of the Queen Charlotte Track near Picton, New Zealand. The scenery was gorgeous and the riding was awesome. We will definitely be mountain biking more during our next 3 weeks here. (more…)
We went to Moab for a weekend and met up with Ben’s mom. It was GREAT! Seriously, I can’t tell you how much I love this place…
Last Summer Ben and I went biking at Bogus Basin Ski Resort outside of Boise. Ben had the sweet idea of taking photos of the exact same locations in summer and winter. We forgot to look at the summer photos before heading up to Bogus yesterday – but we took a bunch of pictures anyway and some of them matched up pretty well. So, here you have examples of Bogus Basin in the summer vs. winter!
Last weekend we took a road trip to Moab. Ahh, Moab, I love that place! If you’ve never been to Southern Utah you should definitely add it to your “list” (if you have one, well, doesn’t everyone?). The scenery is just amazing. Bright orange and red rocks in all kinds of shapes and formations. And usually the sky is bright blue which makes a nice contrast.
- Red Badge(s) of Courage:
- This happened in one of the easiest sections of the Rock Garden at Table Rock.
- The biggest danger in mountain biking is going too slow. Or too fast.
- (I prefer Red Raspberry of Courage, but calling it that assumes everyone has heard of the book the Red Badge of Courage – or at least the term itself – and no one has. Plot summary – Civil War boy soldier is wounded in a cowardly fashion, everyone thinks he must be very brave because of his injury and this shames him into actually becoming very courageous)
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