Vacation Day 1

Today officially starts the summer vacation for me and I couldn't be more excited. Leaving the work place for a whole week and not having to think about anything but basic human needs is simply an awesome thing. Am I hungry, there are three types of cookies that I can snack on. Am I thirsty, bottled water, beer and soda line the door of the fridge. Am I hot, one of the largest lakes in Minnesota awaits in anticipation of cooling me down. All my needs are met and all I have to do is enjoy it.

I tried posting a photo blog yesterday to try and illustrate my day (I don't think I have done that yet) but I lost my internet service at 10:00 on the dot. Perhaps it is some kind of cabin area curfew or perhaps it was plain bad luck but either way all the images didn't make it to the blog. They all can be found at my Flickr account if you really wanted to see them. I'm still trying to find a painless process of uploading and using a ton of photos in a blog posting without having to go to such great measures. If I get bored over the course of the next week I will work on something that will work. The forty hours I'm suppose to be spending at work and the ten hours of commute time have been exchanged for hours soaking up the sun, reeling in some fish and releasing the shutter on my cameras. Don't worry folks, I will find somethings to do.

As for the trip up to the Norte, I must say that it was a pretty boring one. If I didn't have someone texting me all the way up I'm pretty sure that I would have fallen asleep right outside of St. Cloud. I'm completely a fan of road trip, hell just getting in my car to drive to Target brings great joy into my life, as you get amazing music reverberating out of your car speakers while your eyes are overwhelmed by the superb sights of a world completely foreign to them. I brought enough music with me to play nonstop to hell the middle of Texas but my trip was only three hours long. I plan for the worst case scenarios and always pack music from mixed genres. Today it was Islands that was set on repeat and the eclectic sounds both soothed my soul and stimulated my senses. I really don't know why it was them today but they sure sounded good.

Day 2 report to come later.

-B.