Category: Travel

More pictures from NOLA

I don’t think I’ll ever have time to fully comment on all of the adventures in New Orleans, so I’m going to simply post the pictures. Enjoy.

Bring on the Banff Film Festival!

Hip-hip-hooray! The Banff Film Festival comes to Seattle for three nights starting tomorrow. Nick and I have been to Banff twice for the festival and love everything about it - especially the shared inner drive for adventure, testing personal limits, and doing things no one has ever tried before. The hairs on the back of my neck tingle just thinking about it. We can’t afford to go to Banff right now, the Canadian dollar being what it is. (Just kidding. It actually conflicts with school.) We can’t wait until we have the time/money to go again, though.

If you don’t have tickets to the local tour showing at the Mountaineers...um...too bad. It’s probably sold out. Put it on your calendar for next year, though. It is an excellent evening of fun. In the mean time, here’s a snippet of some of things you would have seen.

The Banff World Tour intro video (I just love the music):

“Weekend Warrior” (the best Banff Film Festival movie of all time). It was created in 2003 as part of the Filmmaker Showdown in Whistler in only 72 hours from start to finish.

Then there’s the amazing Ryan Leech doing a little trials riding in Prague:

“Shock and Awe 2” is the counter point to Ryan’s flawless riding. It’s probably a little more realistic of the real work that goes into this type of riding.

I don’t remember seeing the following videos at Banff, but they star some of the folks you’d see there. Introducing the notorious Timmy O’Neil in “The Guardian Angel”:

And my favorite of all, “Everyday Extreme.” This movie and “Sister Extreme” are the inspiration for my upcoming video production - “Extreme Snowshoeing.”

Meet Rachael

It is so fun having guests in town who have never been to Seattle before. Floyd, a Big Rider from Pennsylvania, is here for a few days before he takes off on his cross-country adventure. Needless to say, we went to the market to meet Rachael (the pig) and buy some of the delicious Copper River salmon. 

Back from vacation with big news

As my dad pointed recently, my blog has been seriously neglected over the last three weeks. A trip to England and Italy will do that, I suppose!

In the mean time, happy events were transpiring at home that will lead to big life changes for me in the very near future. All things in their time, however. I have a few things to wrap up before I feel comfortable announcing anything here. For those in the know, I will leave you with a hint about my current state of mind:

“There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.”
- Washington Irving

There’s no question he’s a Devine