Ten things I will miss about...

Maybe it's because I'm too excited about meeting a high school classmate (whom I haven't seen in 9 years) at the climbing gym tomorrow, maybe I'm just trying to get a jump start on getting over the jet lag, but it's 2:18 in the morning and I'm wide awake. So following the evilmoose's example, I will make a list: "ten things I will miss about Maryland".

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Errrrr.... let's make that "ten things I will miss about the Mid-Atlantic states".

1. Deepwater soloing at Summersville Lake, West Virginia.

2. Eating a big bowl of Pho, then go snowboarding.
3. Getting green tea mochi ice cream from Trader Joes for dinner.
4. Some people were crazy enough to go climbing with me when it's snowing.

5. The autumn colors.

6. Having access to four REIs. Count them, four!
7. Night sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.
8. The hard sandstone at the New River Gorge, West Virginia.

9. Scaring myself on a 5.4 at Seneca.

10. The friendly climbers.

Catching up

Wow, it has been a busy month with no blogs. I'll do a short recap.

First, I quit my job. My last day at work was Feb 3rd. I went climbing and bouldering a few times, but mostly I stayed home and packed. I went to Great Falls twice, Franklin once, and as my last climbing trip in Maryland, I went to McAfee's Knob with a bunch of climbers from St. Mary's College.

SMC climbers at McAfee's Knob

I got my things packed up and move them all to my parent's house for storage. All my life's belongs fit inside a 5 x 8 Uhaul trailer. From here, I will fly to Australia on March 1st, and pretend to be a climbing bum for three months. What's after that? I don't know... haven't planned that far. Vaguely, when I get back I want to buy an used mini-van and become a soccer mom... no, go on a road trip across the country, and ideally, end up in Colorado somehow. How? I don't know. But I'm sure everything is going to work out just fine. =)

Almost sending Pocket Arete (V4)