Super busy at work.
Busy at home getting our water filter/softener sorted.
How busy? I forget the last time I had a nice cool refreshing glass of Vodka.
Yeah, I know, woe is me.
But, there is a light at the end of the tunnel…. In a few days I take off 4 days for hiking in the Grand Canyon!
Super excited.
Back on Jan 1st, I was up at midnight faxing my hiking application to the National Parks Service.
Broken hearted when it was rejected…. No space they said… I had applied for 2 people in the usual (aka popular) campsites.
Not to be deterred, I had 2 weeks to reapply, so I grabbed a map and planned out a solo trip….. Since I was on my own, I could go a little further, a little deeper and forgo a few comforts…. No staying on the beaten path, no staying at the usual camp ground….. So I did.
Yah! I was accepted this time around.
So. We have the usual training at Opto today, which I teach. Then tomorrow is a half day for me. Around lunch time I will head off and drive 7.5 hours to the small town Tusayan just outside of the Canyon. We have a motel room reserved.
Up at o’dark thirty the next morning and hike in. In my (slightly) overweight backpack I have everything that we will need (hopefully) to keep myself alive for the next 4 days…. Oh, and some camera gear… of course….
It will be very different going solo this year, my first time doing this. It means that I have to have everything in the one pack. Last year, we could split it all three ways.
Oh, and I will have you all know that I have been watching the weather for the correct location like a hawk. Super excited (and VERY relieved) to say that the weather is looking almost perfect. Hot and clear (there might be some clouds some days – hope they clear as I want to take some astro photos).
Anyway, sorry the blog has been bumping along the bottom for a while now. Got a head full of stuff that I just can’t figure out myself, so really can’t blog about any of it…. It is so full it is just crowding out everything else. Hopefully 4 days in the Canyon will bring some peace and quiet.
[And yeah Matt W. I hear ya, I will do my best to blog about said adventure in less than a year this time around!].
