Browsing through some friends’ sites today, I found a travelogue on my old work buddy Jason’s site. He took an Aprilia across the country with a digital camera and documented his travels, then posted it all when he got back home. Yeah, his spelling is bad, but the writing is fun and the pictures are gorgeous. It makes me wish I had the time/money combination to do the same thing.

I also found out via Mike that MICA finally updated their site, after a long, confusing, 404-laden six years.

I was able, after waiting three days for them to dry out properly, to raise the first three crossbeams for the trellis last night. Last saturday I got the two 4×4 side posts permanently anchored to the wall, levelled, notched, and hung the beam between them. Now I’m slowly getting the crossbeams up; this afternoon when the sun is at about a 60 degree angle I’ll be able to see just how much of a sunbreak it creates. I have to return to Home Depot this evening to buy four more 2×6’s, and hopefully they will already be dry.