Saturday, September 30, 2006

breathe

i'm starting to relax at the red...

check out my stick clip-- how do you like the green "tape?"

amy cleaning after leading brother stair (which, despite the link is a 10!)...

and i'd like you to meet my new friend roo:


Thursday, September 28, 2006

the red

greetings from kentucky! it is much greener and more humid than last time i was here. amy and i are having a fabulous time. we're hanging out with two dogs, getting in some trad leads, finding our inner strength, reawakening atrophied muscles, and playing plenty of scrabble (its raining today).

news: thesis is written, signed off, bound, and has arrived at harvard. i am officially, completely, entirely, wholeheatedly DONE with grad school. wwwhhhheeeeee!!! i will officially graduate in november, at which point y'all can start addressing me as "doctor." ("doc" is acceptable)

so... i am taking advantage of this break in my life for a nice long road trip. i've been making noise about this for a while. t'wasn't just noise! i plan to travel, climb, and visit folks until christmas or so. then i will be rejoining the ant colony-- taking a job, getting a puppy, etc. in the meantime, drop me an email if you'd like to meet up somewhere or be graced with my presence.

one more thing.... when i lose my harvard computer accounts, all the photos on this blog will go bye-bye. i think its a good time to start a new one. any suggestions for names? ("zhong guo michelle" seems dated anyways)

RRG to-do list:
roadside attraction
fuzzy undercling
rocket man (yeah, this one is a big stretch for me! but it looks delicious!)

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

the michelle show

I raided Jenn's pics and found a bunch of me. I was on the vacation after all. So, here are a bunch of pics of Michelle.

This blog is, afterall, all about ME ME ME

in Santorini, waiting for the rest of the pack to ride up on donkeys


along the Amalfi coast, with Jenn


in our cabin, waiting for the cat herding to finish up


in Rhodes, feeling too damn short to take a photo


prom night... they wouldn't let me wear my fleece sweater


all the Museums in Rhodes are closed on Mondays


Santorini was all about the white buildings and blue domes...



Friday, September 15, 2006

bright colors...

became very interesting after many towns full of glowing white ruins.






some more doors...








I like to take photos of laundry. They are a nice reminder that people actually *live* in these places and they adds a neat texture to all the straight lines.






other signs of human life...










some human beings encountered along the way...

(yes, its us! seven of us crammed into a small taxi in Athens in the August heat)


(mummy)


(Jenn befriended two swiss nurses in Mykanos)


(where else but at the vatican?!?)


(yes, its us, but at least we're interacting with native life forms)




(I befriended the pistacchio guy)

and one more miscellaneous pic..

architectural fun

venice...

athens...

santorini...

rome...

ephesus...


rhodes...

olympus... because everything looks stunning when backlit

eye candy

in Athens, walking downhill from the Acropolis...

swimming in the salty ionian sea at Corfu: even lead hobbits float easily...

Mum and Aunt Sharon in Dubrovnik...

Rhodes...

The fabulous, quiet beach that Jenn and I mopeded out to on the northern end of Mykanos, complete with naked people (entire families!)...

In Olympus where, like most ports, we interacted more with dug up ruins than native peoples...

a floor in Pompeii...

Everything seemed Texas-big and bright white in Rome...

Before an exciting ride up a steep hill in Santorini...

Jenn in Venice, mortified that I asked this gondalier to pose with her...

In Ephesus...