After all of our bags had fallen on Christian after making a sharp turn on a mountain road, we were all surprised to see how readily Christian fell asleep.

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Almost across the mountain to home!

03

A brief nicotine break after sneaking in to hang out at the pool in Kahneeta's casino for a few hours.

05

The stunningly steep cliff face and lake in which we'd be boating for the next eight-or-so hours.

07

Our humble greenhouse.

09

You can imagine how this turned out.

11

We stopped at a convenience store staffed by surprisingly *interesting* people atop Mount Hood.

02

Mount Hood standing menacingly on the edge of the desert.

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Chad was a bit worn out the next day.

06

Other nearby mountains.

08

Our first glimpse of Mount Hood above the treeline from up-close.

10

Nearly prepared. The car by now reminds me quite a lot of National Lampoon.

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A weekend in the desert

I learned a few things this weekend:

  1. The silence of night in the desert is amazing, and I’m now in love with it.
  2. Being forced to wake up by a greenhouse-like tent at 7:30 AM is not without its merits.
  3. SPF 85 is the way to go for the first three solid days in the sun.
  4. Good conversation and a fire can easily make one forget how tired he is.
  5. Riding across a mountain in the middle of the night is exactly as terrifying as I had expected it to be.
  6. As much as I love my Jupiter 9, my stock Olympus 14-42mm sort of kills it.

1 year, 10 months ago

— 01. After all of our bags had fallen on Christian after making a sharp turn on a mountain road, we were all surprised to see how readily Christian fell asleep.

— 02. We stopped at a convenience store staffed by surprisingly *interesting* people atop Mount Hood.

— 03. Almost across the mountain to home!

— 04. Mount Hood standing menacingly on the edge of the desert.

— 05. A brief nicotine break after sneaking in to hang out at the pool in Kahneeta’s casino for a few hours.

— 06. Chad was a bit worn out the next day.

— 07. The stunningly steep cliff face and lake in which we’d be boating for the next eight-or-so hours.

— 08. Other nearby mountains.

— 09. Our humble greenhouse.

— 10. Our first glimpse of Mount Hood above the treeline from up-close.

— 11. You can imagine how this turned out.

— 12. Nearly prepared. The car by now reminds me quite a lot of National Lampoon.

Who is to blame?

A photo of Adam Coddington.

Adam works for a small software company in Portland, OR's Cathedral Park neighborhood as a software developer. In recent news, bike commuting from his apartment in the Mississippi District to his office has been making him slightly damper than expected, but having the early-morning view of the St. Johns bridge poking out of the dense fog rolling across the west hills every morning while enjoying his cup of coffee more than makes up for such a minor inconvenience.

Not enough information? I didn't think so either. Well, he cares about things like leftist politics and economics, living a car-free lifestyle, never taking anything for granted, and although he is an unabashed technophile, he dreams of living an unplugged lifestyle in the middle of the wilderness by the time he reaches forty or so years old.

What is the meaning of this?

This Adam guy has an really terrible memory for things like names, places, and events. Although it might be rather a miracle that he doesn't drown on his own spit from day-to-day, he has somehow managed to scrape together his software development skills from year to year to maintain this site-- a sort of documentary of his own life. This is more for his sake than yours.

We are all creatures of our own past. How do you remind yourself of your own context?

What is this guy up to?

♪♫ Listening to Flying Lotus – Beginners Falafel at this exact moment ♪♫ ⇢

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