I'm thinking of starting some May Goals. I read in an article 'training for your first 10K' about trying to run 50 miles in one month. While that goal seems pretty lofty to me I decided to go back into my Runkeeper account and look at my best month. I found that in July of 2011 I ran 40 miles. So, in the month of May 2013 I plan to run 41 miles. In June I'd like to run a 10K. There. It's out there. Now I have to do it! I'll blog about the process throughout the month. You can also watch me on my Runkeeper account
http://runkeeper.com/user/abaret/profile
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Bringing It Home
Here's some straggling pictures from my trip.
Lemon tress growing in Kay's garden
More pictures of delicious food from Mexcio
Kay's beautiful house view in Rosarito, Mexico
More Mexican beach houses
A huge tree in Balboa Park in San Diego
Lily pad pond in Balboa park - reminded me of Claud Monet's Lily pads
Last view of the beach on the last night.
Flying away from Utah's airport. I'll miss the mountains and the West in general.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Grand Canyon
Before the Grand Canyon, we stopped to see the world's most preserved Meteorite Crater in the world.
This crater was formed thousands of years ago.
It was just a hole in the ground until it became privately owned and turned into a tourist attraction
The Meteorite turned the earth's crust inside out revealing years of perfectly preserved fossils.
After the crater, we left for the main event of the day: The Grand Canyon!
It was a little hazy outside but still beautiful of course.
The vastness is so hard to comprehend. Pictures just don't do it justice.
Everywhere along the rock you could see fossils of snails.
We even saw Elk!
A panorama to show the epicness of the grand canyon
Our journey.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
New Mexico to Arizona
Today we met up with one of Wes's friends, Elizabeth, in the small town of Gallup, NM
This is a size reference. This is our attempt to take down a huge sopapita - a mixture of Native American and Mexican food.
Elizabeth was such a great host. She droves us out to the Red Rock state park. We hiked a small way up to take pictures and soak in the view. It couldn't have been better weather.
After we stopped by a historical hotel on Route 66 to look inside. Many famous people have stayed here over time.
Lucille Ball stayed in this room!
I forgot to post these last night. We statyed at Katie and Alex's house for a night and drank some local beers. Great times!
We checked out the New Mexico version of Kroger. Here's an example of the chili culture out here. It's huge!
Today's Journey. Tomorrow, the Grand Canyon!!
Yesterday: from Roswell to Albuquerque
We did SO MUCH STUFF!
Visited the UFO museum in Roswell of course!
Ate some fantastic tacos at the Disco Taco on a Native American reservation
Walked the White Sands desert
Made an unexpected stop at some historical Petroglyphs. Super old rock etchings. This appealed to my art history back ground.
Drove through the Valley of Fire: the result of one of the youngest lava flows in the continental United States.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Today was the long drive from Austin to Roswell, New Mexico
These horrible oil rigs are all over west Texas. They're slow moving pendulum like machines. They're kind of creepy.
On another note we saw many wind turbines along the way. I don't think I've ever seen them before.
West Texas is so picturesque. It's littered with old broke down buildings and cacti along the highway.
Moving into New Mexico I saw a sign for a state park. I had no idea it was going to be this beautiful. I'm glad we stopped.
More Lagoons.
Travel on!
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