Work is taking me to China. First to Lanzhou and then to Xi'an, neither of which I've been to before. My Geko GPS is sort of my security blanket when I travel to new places, so I always download waypoints of important places before I go, like the hotel where I'm staying, and the airport or train station. It was a bit of a challenge finding coordinates, since none of the mapping sites I visited had street-level details for these cities. However, the organizers of the conferences I'm going to (the 2nd Asia CLiC State and Fate of the Asia Cryosphere Conference and the ISO/TC211 Plenary) included simple diagrammatic maps of hotels and meeting places. I was able to correlate the diagrams with the street layouts visible in Google Earth. So I'm all set.
I'm excited to be going, although it remains to be seen how much time I get for sightseeing. It's for certain that I'll visit the Terracotta Warriors excavation, and perhaps some Buddhist caves.
I'll post photos and a travelogue so stay tunned.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Weekend Adventure
Saturday morning, after Barbora (14) took the Mazda for a few laps around the parking lot in back of my work (she's learning to drive, and a stick shift at that) we headed for our cabin near Allenspark, at 8,100 feet ASL. It was cloudy and some light rain fell, but around 2pm the sun came out and we took a short hike to Cabin Creek, which is north over a ridge from our place. The temperature was mild and the sweet, earthy forest smells made us happy.
That evening we played cards and read by the woodstove. In the night I was awoken by a series of thumps, looking out the window I saw that everything was white and that the thumping was caused by wet, heavy snow falling from the trees.
In the morning we hiked to the nearby lake and back through the forest.
The photo album of the weekend is here.
Back in Boulder, the sky was gray but there seemed to be more color in the trees. I took photos out the front and back windows of our house, to convey the feeling of fall that is all around us here.
That evening we played cards and read by the woodstove. In the night I was awoken by a series of thumps, looking out the window I saw that everything was white and that the thumping was caused by wet, heavy snow falling from the trees.
In the morning we hiked to the nearby lake and back through the forest.
The photo album of the weekend is here.
Back in Boulder, the sky was gray but there seemed to be more color in the trees. I took photos out the front and back windows of our house, to convey the feeling of fall that is all around us here.
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