Texas Love

When in Texas, do as the texans do and go two-steppin! Thas right ya'll, I am heading out to do the two-step. wish me luck!! Lets hope those numerous drinks just work to make me even more graceful :)

Tripping down the Road

I finally found internet! uh huh yes I did!

Ive been on Jewlz and Hallie's road trip extravaganza now for about a week adn a half and finally convinced her to spend a night at a KOA campground so that I could get online. cause seriously here, I was jonesing.* And really only reason I was able to convince her? I had to finish a project for my class that is due thursday and we will not be getting back to internet till sat. AHHH! lol

guess i'll live though becuase we have been having such a fantastic time I can't even describe it. Thus far we have hit up

LA

Yosemite

Las Vegas

Grand Canyon

Zion National Park

Bryce Canyon

Lake Powell/Glen Canyon Dam

Hoover Dam

Sunset Volcano National Park

Wupatki National Park

Are you tired? cause I'm tired just thinking about it! haha, but seriously we've even been able to get in a solid 2 hikes a day and not kill each other!!! :) I'll totally write more about it all and have pictures, cause yes I"ve taken a least a thousand already, but for now I need to go crash because my assignment has just been submitted and we are waking up early so that we can check out the petrified forest before driving to the Gila Cliff Dwellings! Then it's on to

Big Bend

The Alamo (San Antonio, TX)

Houston, Tx

New Orleans

Great Smokey Mountain National Park

Saco River, Maine

And somewhere in there I have to do one more project, and one more assignment before I am done with schooling forever! yes, this gal will have her masters, knock on wood. that whole thing is still surreal to me, not sure what I will do when I'm not constantly thinking about whne I have assignments due!

so anyway, keep enjoying that summer! and think of me sweating my life off on my fabulous, awesome, incredible hikes.

~Hal

*KOA campgrounds are really awesome chain campgrounds taht can be foudn pretty much anywhere and have all the amenities you could want. right now I am sitting out at our picnic table with wireless typing this up. trust me, this is not the norm. plus they have hot water, flush toilets, shower, laundry and really nice sites. All for cheap!

"It's like we're always stuck in second gear..."

Tomorrow morning I fly out to LA where I will be spending the celebration of america's freedom with my two college roommates.

After that, after what will be, a fabulous party time, I start off on a road-trip with one of the fantastic roommates through the southern half of the US. Have to be back in Maine by end of July for a weekend of rafting/tubing our way down a river while camping with a pack of amazing swimmers! gonna rock that river! Getting home one night, I take off the next weekend for 2 weeks of the family vacation. Might sound boring to some but I love it! not too mention I am totally bringing a number of friends off and on which will be so fun!

so ultimately, the whole point of this rambling is I will be way off grid for the next month or so, and when I will be on, I will be finishing up this bitch of a class that I am taking. Can NOT wait for July 30th! From then on I am free and clear of the schooling shit, thank the universe! But I will also be having the most hectic/crazy/awesome next month and will not be up to posting/commenting/reading unless incredibly driven too. So live up the summer people! It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Beyond that as well, this post was supposed to be about friends if I remember correctly, at least when I started it was. And I know that cause I was watching an episode of friends when joey moves out of the apt cause all of a sudden he's a soap star, and then he and chandler are so sad about being apart. Episode makes me crack up every time...i'm that nerd who is obsessed with "Friends."

soooo anywho, know what tells me this is going to be a good month? not only do I get to see the two above I"ve talked about, but I saw this lovely lady just today as well and we had a great time checking out the taste as well as hanging about just chatting. This gal has made so many steps forward in life that are miles above where I am even close to and for a second there I was scared that maybe she had stepped too far ahead of me. But today has just proven that no matter where we are, or what is happening, she has always understood me in an impossible way (and vice versa) and we are gonna go strong through everything. Not too mention they might be moving out here in a year or so!!!! woot woot. And here to prove is a pic that got taken our freshman year, maybe halfway through the year. I didn't even realize how much this one girl would change my life or how important she would become, but man look how happy we look with each other already!

I think she looks gorgeous, and though I'm looking slighty chunky I think our shirts(jackets?) set our eyes off amazingly, not too mention us being fabulously coordinated. Anyway I love her to death and am so excited that I won't need to wait another 6 months to see her! And until then I'll be with the other amazing 2 roomies. How much better could it get!?