i missed colorado

Erika and I in Savannah, Georgia

You know you found the best home possible when you miss home on your vacation :) Erika (my awesome roomie and very good friend) and I spent a little over a week near Jacksonville Beach, Florida swimming, biking and hanging w/ her parents. We had a great time, but I'm glad to be home. OH, and we visited Savannah, Georgia- cool place- I'd never been to the South before but that overnight trip definitely piqued my interest in exploring more of it!

I celebrated my first day back home by watching the US lose to Ghana and then going for an exploratory mountain bike ride. We decided to try a new trail and quickly found it out was wayyyy beyond our skill level (crazy narrow, rocky and lots of suspect shrubbery on each side hiding snakes and rocks). After 15 mins on the trail we turned back and I almost fell into a creek :) Instead I managed to fall into spiny weeds and give myself some sweet bruises/scratches (do dudes dig battle wounds?).

We biked the Stone Creek trail instead and rode a new part of it that connects to Beaver Creek. The trail was tons of fun but had a few sketchy narrow parts where if you slid out or fell you'd end up falling off a steep face and getting stopped by a tree or rock.

It's cool to see how the trail has changed over the last month. All of the leaves on the trees/bushes are in and a full green (vs. light green and growing in), the wild flowers are sprouting up all over the place, the trail is getting dustier and I find myself sliding out on some of the tighter turns.

Welcome summer!