The weather is beautiful and the air is intoxicating here in San Diego. Nova my mom and I went to a fancy breakfast this morning. Now, Nova is at a friend’s birthday party at a Chinese restaurant and we are lazing around the living room. I called and Andy. He’s watching the Broncos game [...]

Buckwheat pancakes with peanut butter and agave nectar. Nothing could be better at nine at night with friends in San Diego. Okay, one friend, and one mom in San Diego. Except the mom is sleeping and the two friends are eating pancakes. One is drinking raspberry natural cola and vodka and cooking. The other is [...]

A short history of the last week or so.
Drove to Sacramento from Vegas to Sacramento with Andy and my mom following in her black Cadillac.
We spent a few days with the fam in Sacramento. Five children, goats, llamas, horses, chickens. Fun was had by all. Andy and I rode horses, he sawed down a [...]

We’re leaving for Sacramento today. We’ve been at the Rio since Saturday. My mom is here and….snores. Really snores. I went down to the gift shop at four in the morning to buy my tortured husband earplugs. We never made it to Laughlin, but Laughlin Smaughlin. That’s what I say.
A short story before I [...]

We’re back in Vegas. We have been for a few days. We’ve gotten our bearings and we’re off again. We got a few days of comped rooms at the Rio in Vegas then we’re meeing my mom in Laughlin on Tuesday. She wanted to hang out in Laughlin and gamble some before we started heading [...]

cindigo at blue lagoon Originally uploaded by cindigodotcom.
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So sad to be leaving tonight. We’ll be back for sure. Right now we’re stuffing our packs and slowly saying our goodbyes.
For so long I’ve been trying to put a community of like minded people together. I’ve got it now. We can travel [...]

Lava Video (use Quicktime to view)
So it seems I was duped into promising to write an entry describing our volcanic adventures by a crafty Cindigo. Well, I’m not much of a blogger, but I’m also not a welcher (okay, I am a welcher, but Cindigo’s not letting me get away with it this time) [...]

We’re camping. I mean really camping. I know, I know, how much real camping can you do with a laptop and internet access but play along. We hiked eight miles over some pretty tough terrain and twenty five pound backpacks to get here (I only fell three times). And here is awesome. I’ve been running [...]

lava trees burning Originally uploaded by cindigodotcom.
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We hiked for nine and a half hours in the volcano. We expected to be out three hours, four at the most. Unbelieveably, there were only minor injuries and extreme exhaustion. The tenacity paid off. We saw the most amazing lava flow. It was [...]

We’ve been at Kanoa’s place for the last few days. He and his room mate JC are great. Kanoa and Andy bonded over early the early BBS, Zork and other geekery. JC is very into downloading all kinds of music. We all been hanging out at the kitchen table with our laptops. The house is [...]

Crap! My first earthquake and I slept through it. Or at least I don’t remember any of it. Andy said I woke up with a start because everything was shaking. He told me there was an earthquake. I mumbled something and held on to him.
When we woke up this morning and he mentioned [...]

oh my god look… Originally uploaded by cindigodotcom.
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We made it out of Kona alive. And you guys didn’t even know we were in peril did you? Well I was just being dramatic. The only peril we were in is from falling asleep standing up because we’re running around like crazies. Andrea the [...]