Trout fishing

After spending a night at the friends’ cabin, I got a tour of the mountain. There were hawks, chipmunks, ground squirrels, deer, and lots of lakes, streams and wildflowers. Gorgeous.

I heard someone mention that it was illegal to feed the wildlife, but they were just too @#$%ing cute! Only Kim Jong-il could say no to that face.

My dad and I went fishing. The pond is about 100 feet from the front door of the cabin, and is full of trout. It’s really not even fair, the trout practically line up to sacrifice themselves.

I got 5 in less than an hour, and most of that time was spent wrestling the fish off the hook or un-tangling fishing line.

I was able to meet my mom at the Grand Junction airport for a very brief hello before she headed up the mountain to the cabin, and I headed out of town to Arches National Park in Utah.

Cross the border.

Unfortunately, when I got to Arches at 10pm, it was totally full. I should have guessed, since it’s such a popular park, but I figured that a Wednesday night wouldn’t be such a problem. So instead I back tracked about 20 miles to Canyon Lands National Forest where I got some awesome star gazing done.

This one’s for you, Crystal. I thought it would turn out even better, but I think next time I get to try, it will.

For those of you who are like “WTF is that?” – This shows the horizon “in front” of you, stretches up over your head, all the way to the horizon “behind” you. Yes, it is the Milky Way.

Ok, this post may not have been humorously entertaining, but until the editors at Maxim buy the blog to run a story about how a real man vacations, you’ll just have to live with a reduced humor level. I have like 4 days of updates to write, so there’s not enough time to spice up everything.