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Places I Visited On My Road Trip of Awesomeness Earlier This Summer

  • Mount Rushmore
  • Wall Drug (Wall, South Dakota)
  • Gillette, Wyoming
  • Missoula, Montana (including dinner with 2 college roommates)
  • Spokane, Washington
  • Idaho (a gas station somewhere along I-90)
  • Columbia River Gorge
  • Horsetail & Multnomah Falls (Hood River, Oregon)
  • Portland, Oregon
  • Crescent City, California
  • Redwoods National Forest
  • A beach somewhere along the California coast
  • Trinidad Bay & Memorial Lighthouse (Trinidad, California)
  • Redding, California
  • Reno, Nevada (visit with the Lewis family)
  • Virginia City, Nevada
  • Lake Tahoe Overlook
  • Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)
  • Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Casa Bonita (Denver, Colorado, with another college friend)
  • State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Huxley, Iowa (Aunt & Uncle’s house)
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Columbia River Gorge
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Multnomah Falls
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State Line

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Wyoming
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Salt Flats

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Casa Bonita

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Things I Should Be/Am Doing Today With My Day Off

Things I SHOULD be doing today with my day off:

  1. Packing boxes
  2. Cleaning house

 

Things I AM doing today with my day off:

  1. Slept late
  2. Packed one box of kitchen stuff
  3. Lunch with Katrina
  4. Shopped at Walmart
  5. Dropped off lightning-ruined 41″ TV to Best Buy for recycling
  6. Picked up new sunglasses from Spex Expressions
  7. Stopped by the office to say hi to everyone working (and picked up some work to do at home)
  8. Heading to my pool which was completely empty when I drove by a few minutes ago
  9. Going to dinner/drinks with Kara (New New Kara) tonight

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Awesome Stuff From This Weekend

  • Thursday night Matthew West concert at the Iowa State Fair
  • Friday spent with my son & soon-to-be daughter in law
  • Delicious Thai food for lunch
  • Bonfire with excellent friends
  • Lunch with the group
  • Lagomarcino’s caramels (2 of which are still in my freezer to enjoy)
  • Pool/Sun time
  • Good church service
  • Sunday afternoon nap
  • A visit from Kara