Fall colors in colorful Colorado

We had a beautiful weekend away from the Rez and got to see the peak of the fall foliage in southwestern CO. We took a hike up to Blue Lake at over 11,000 feet, hit up the gondola from Telluride to Mountain Village a couple times and drove past where Jerry Seinfeld's new residence (one of) is.

Summer IS Over...

After having a wonderful summer seeing family and being able to hangout, work and take classes...we're gearing up for the start of a new year. I'm especially fired up about being a 10 foot poles length from my classroom....see right...

June Vacation to California National Parks and the Coast

We went on a little road trip the first week of June we no plans except for the bikes on the Yakima and knowing we wanted to go west. Our first stop was Sequoia National Park (see a glimpse in the pictures to the right). We highly recommend this place for it's pretty amazingly HUGE trees (largest diameters in the tree family). (Not to be confused with Redwoods which are the tallest). From there we headed north to King's Canyon National Park. Another goodie.

Our final national park stop was Yosemite. The most touristy of the bunch but worth the couple days spent there along with the night in the mountain climbers' campground where they place six random campers per site and you share the fire and picnic table...you get to know some interesting folks that way.

We decided to take the coast "back" from there and did a stop in San Francisco then all the way down Highway 1. It never gets old. We got to see Jenna and Mark in LA and enjoy the best OJ we've ever had---fresh from the tree in their yard. The trip came to a conclusion at 3:45 am after driving approximately 15 hours the last day and Noell taking, well, you can probably guess what shift she took.

All in all, another great western trip and looking forward to more down the ROAD.

Jeff is Great

My husband was on his way to go biking with some other guys this evening and I really wanted to go with him because he is the center of fun in our household. I asked him once and he said "Noell, you wanted to go?" Two minutes later while putting on my biking shorts he asks, "Noell, what are you getting changed for?" What a husband he is - he allowed me to bike with him, although it only ended up being the two of us as there were dark clouds in the sky. We did some house searching nearby and slowly road the sandy trails under the hogbacks, beneath the darker clouds and through the cool New Mexico evening air. It turned out to be a nice easy ride and I think Jeff might have had a good time.

What's Happening in New Mexico!

The new Jeff and Noell blogspot! We are hoping to use this blogspot to share recent pictures and happenings from our life in the Compound. We'll try to stay up on it as much as possible. Enjoy!

Recent news: T-minus 10 more school days left...then summer vacation! Trip plans are still in the making. We'll take road trip suggestions!