"You can put Kate McAlpine in a giant particle accelerator 300 feet underground. You can even put her in a rap video. Just don't put her in a box.

She tips the hat to her dad, who was annoyed by the results of her career aptitude test in high school that sought to place her in a particular field.

"They're trying to put you in a box," she recalls her father saying. But they didn't succeed. (Read: her dual degree from Michigan State University in professional writing and physics and an excerpt from her personal statement. "I have pitched my camp at a crossroads: the intersection of science and writing.")"

She'll do.

"19 terrifying incidents involving fish"

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/blog.php?blogid=198

Armed Services Appreciation Day in Cripple Creek.

Ya, this guy's movie is a little better than mine... 

Some pictures from the Hill Climb this year.  Sis flew out from St Louis for the race. 

 This is our camp. 

These are some movies I took of the race action.  Yes, that's a semi. 

Flooding:  The black object in the center, right of the frame is the bronze hat of Merriwether Lewis from the Lewis and Clark statue.

Westward ho!

We're here for a couple weeks, so we toured the Fredericksburg Battlefield.  Four major battles between Lee and Hooker/Grant took place here.  The exhibits called it the bloodiest ground in North America.  I wonder what Mexico's ancient Aztecs would have made of that claim? 

I'll continue to update this site, including our drive back to CO.

I forgot tent stakes, so we improvised with a tarp.  It withstood some serious wind that night.

These were the views around our campsite.

Now it's off to Territory Days for some first class people watching and bratwurst consumption.

Sis asked me to update the blog, so here are some pictures of a walk Keenu and I took last weekend.