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So, yeah- back home and chilling out in California's wonderful weather. I guess this is why I spend more than 50% of my pay on housing. I missed the terrible heat that baked my apopted state a while back, and for that I'm happy. Wisconsin was El Salvadorian hot, for at least a couple of days anyway, so I got my fill of heat and humidity for a year. Back to dry and 75 degrees!
Went for a proper vacation right after I got home (yup, straight back into the car). Kat and I stayed awhile up in Homewood, up in Tahoe. It was crowded as. Unreal amounts of people. We're usually up there around the beginning of fall, when all the little tykes are back in school and it's super quiet and super mellow. Summertime in Tahoe is all about floating down the river in a rented raft, with your beer floating next to you while you tan your bad tattoos and having the chunky girl in the too tight bikini talk to you because you've got a swell goatee.
Ok, not that bad, but I saw a lot of that when I was spinning down the bike path which winds next to the Trukee river. I tried riding on the road, I do ride a road bike after all, but there was a 5km line of cars trying to get into Tahoe City everyday. I took my chances and rode the path for 2 hours, all the way down past Squaw Valley and over towards Trukee, but never got into town really. 2 hours max, mellow, just what my body needed.
Kat and I did crossword puzzles and read books and went for coffee at the Tahoe House. Best coffee and Scooby Snacks in the area as well as gourmet foods that will dent your pocket but make you saliva- it's a trade off. Kat was fighting another sinus infection so she was tearing through the tissues like they were going out of style, poor thing so we kept a low profile and just chilled out for 5 days then headed back home on Weds.
I went back to work at Chain Reaction, got my hands into the grease and got the legs back to serious training. I began to come around when I raced Fort Ord, but lacked the snap to do anything worthwhile, but Keith Miller rode like a champ and got 4th that day, which was very good for him and good for the morale. I felt like I was just there riding around in circles, but whatever.

I'd post some photos, but I didn't take a single one, but I do have some from Superweek!

Paul, Darren and me at Alterra.

Marco and me inside trying to order...

Miss Ella the wonder puppy.

Senor DZ,

wonder cook!

This is Amy, Kaitlyn's friend. This pic is on my blog beacuse she told me not to put it on my blog.
It was Kaitlyn's birthday party that night which would explain the tiara. All other photos from that night are somehow missing...