Travel, Tech, Thoughts…
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more jedi training
At his current rate, Toren is bound to be a full-blown jedi in no time: And another clip of him chasing bubbles with a light saber:
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trampoline craziness
A clip of Toren golfing on the trampoline:
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godzilla wannabe
A clip of Toren engaging in one of his favorite past times – sand castle destruction:
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another obstacle course
Toren occasionally asks for an obstacle course these days, and we’re always happy to oblige. Here he is doing another obstacle course we set up for him:
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Toren’s version of reading
He only did this for a few weeks, but it was adorable when he did. We’d give him a coloring book and he’d tell us the story. This is a Star Wars coloring book and, in case you can’t tell, there are a lot of bad guys:
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videos from Granite Peak
I just posted my trip report for Granite Peak. In addition to the report, I posted, I shot a few videos. First up, here I am rappelling from the top of Granite Peak: Now Tom’s turn: Now the mountain goats’ turn… Okay, they weren’t rappelling. But they did climb right up one of the chimneys…
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MT-Granite Peak
Summit Date August 19th, 2012; around 4:00 pm Summit Party Ryan Cragun and Tom Triplett Trip Report Granite Peak isn’t the tallest highpoint (McKinley in Alaska is; Granite is number 10) nor the most remote (Gannett Peak in Wyoming is more remote), but many people have claimed that it is the most difficult highpoint to…
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visit to California – Silicon Valley tour
When we decided to visit my sister, there were just a few things we wanted to do. We obviously wanted to visit them, but in addition to that, we wanted to visit Stanford University, eat at The Giant Artichoke (she blogged about that, which is how I knew about it), and visit companies in Silicon…
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visit to California – light house and artichokes
On the 13th we drove into San Francisco, crossed the Golden Gate, and stopped for lunch in Sausalito. We then went for a nice walk to the Point Bonita lighthouse. Toren carried his cousin’s Woody doll (from Toy Story) on his shoulders the whole way (I carried Toren most of the way, in effect carrying…
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visit to California – Stanford University
During our trip to Utah we took a side trip to California to visit my sister, Wendy, her husband, Mario, and their two kids, Ethan and Xander. Mario has a fellowship at Stanford for the next couple of years and they are living near there in Campbell, CA. We drove through the night on August…