Before I go back into the wild...

Ahhh, I must admit I'm loving the hotel life. Air conditioning, comfortable bed, clean shower, free breakfast, and a coffee place in walking distance. I feel like a king! Well, it will be short and sweet. Today I go back into camping mode and will stay 2 nights at Capitol Reef NP and after that I will drive north to the scary but cool sounding Goblin State Park.

Anyhow...

Thus far I've been keeping up with my end of the deal. At this point I've taken about 12 gigs of photos. I'm a firm believer of the 1% rule in photography so perhaps 10-20 will be good. :)

Ted and all my friends at MDT I know
you want to see the beard so here it is (Click on the picture for larger version). Sorry for the lifeless expression, but it's not that easy to take a picture of yourself in a mirror. I guess I could have turned the camera toward me but I fear that would have been even more frightening to look at! It's a mix of gray and black, probably fair to say it's about 50/50. Time to get "Just for men, grecian formula or something. At 36, I'm looking too old for my own good. hahha

Discovered a tidbit of good news yesterday. A rather cute photo of my niece Anna made the cover of the latest Cal Parks Foundation newsletter. You can view a thumbnail of the cover here: http://calparks.org/newsletter/
I'm very excited about it and look forward to seeing it when I get back to Petaluma in August.


Vincent (from TrekLens) I don't know if you are reading this at all, but if you still intend to come to Utah in the fall. I highly suggest this book: http://www.amazon.com/Photographing-Southwest-1-Southern-Utah-2nd/dp/0916189120/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216912950&sr=8-1
This book has been awesome and is really well put together. If you haven't heard about it I cannot begin to tell you how thorough it is....


Well, I gotta get going. It's almost 9:30 here and they are gonna kick me out of my room at 11. Time to go set up camp and explore.

The wanderer