bpope’s blog

What can I say?  Life has been busy…the academic year has come to a close, and my summer employment is well underway.   Since last I wrote, Ive been able to get back into climbing (at PlanetGranite in Sunnyvale), the Ultimate team placed highly in Sectionals and did slightly better than seeded at Regionals, and I’m back at Apple, with the same group as last time around.  This year, once again, I’m working on more phone things, specifically…things that I am under contractual obligation to not talk about.  The hours are long but I’m having a great time since the problems are difficult and interesting.

I’m looking forward to a summer of busy weeks at work, and exciting adventures in the Sierra on the weekends, with maybe a trip to Seattle or LA sprinkled in.  I might even have time to keep the blog updated with trip reports (this weekend…Half Dome night hike) or at least fill in old galleries of trips, ultimate, and projects for my ‘portfolio.’

I haven’t posted in a really long time, and there’s probably plenty of stuff worth posting (Red Rocks, Ultimate Sectionals…) but this is BIG! We’re going to the World Cup (we being me, Jack, Joe, and Campo.)

There’s another round or two of ticket-buying that we might be able to get some more games with, but I’m psyched either way. South Africa, here we come!

Seeing Dean’s post (here) made me curious what my travels look like geographically.  Within the country (click to enlarge):

And the world:

Like Dean, I think it’d be nice to see a little bit more of the southern part of the US.  More importantly, I think that in all my travels I haven’t gotten to know the people nearly as well as I would’ve liked.  There’s a lot left to see in this world and many people to meet.  I haven’t gone on any really exciting trips in almost two years now.  Of course South Africa is on the list for 2010, and I should be able to hop around Europe a bit this summer…maybe Asia is next on my leisure trip list.  Who knows, maybe I could even get some climbing done in Thailand?

Maps taken from Wikipedia and customized 29 December 2008.