Since my track record for posting timely, detailed, and pictorial blog posts on trips is at best 25% (I still have aspirations of blogging about our African honeymoon 2.5 years ago…), I figured it would be best to write a short and sweet update for the Alaska trip so far. This trip originated last year [...]
A few weeks ago, some members of the Valerio clan (my mom’s side of the family) adventured out to the west coast for a family snowboarding trip. The weather and riding conditions were on the very damp side of the stereotypical Seattle mountain climate (i.e. it was raining a good bit of the time), but [...]
Today, I completed my Open Water Scuba Diving Certification! This was something I had been meaning to cross off my todo list for a few years. I first got the idea during our honeymoon in Tanzania. Zanzibar (an island off the eastern coast of Tanzania, in the Indian Ocean) is reputed to be an awesome [...]
As the autumn weather turns a little cooler, the daylight draws a little shorter, and the roads are a little wetter, bike commuting gradually becomes more of a challenge. Wanting to stay in good shape through ski season, even if it was only biking to work once or twice a week, meant that I’d either [...]
I have a goal of catching up on my large backlog of photo processing this weekend, and adding 355 new ones isn’t the best way to achive it. But I’ll at least try to set a 2010 personal best and turn around this set in less than twenty-four hours. It’s a little unusual to waltz [...]
A few weeks ago, we made a hit and run trip to Vermont for our friends’ Lindsay and Matt’s wedding near Middlebury. As Meagan joked, we spent nearly as much time traveling as we did in Vermont, but it was a ton of fun catching up with Meagan’s Middlebury crew and soaking in a bit [...]
Early this month, I rode about 75 miles, often uphill, from Vancouver to Whistler in the inaugural Gran Fondo Whistler ride. Matt and Rob already covered a lot about the ride in their blog posts (below), so I’ll keep this (relatively) short. In sum: fun ride, very well-organized, challenging, but not as difficult as I [...]
This summer, I had one of my more memorable dining experiences. Accidentally. The evening started with me ditching work early to head to yoga. After getting my Namaste on and sweating up a storm, I left Shakti and commenced my hunt for dinner. Meagan originally had plans to meet up with some folks from school, [...]
Ten years ago today, I moved to Seattle. I guess I can officially call myself a local now. I never really expected to be out here this long. Before coming here, I was two years out of school and working in my first “real” job since graduating as a software engineer at a hardware company [...]
I’ve been a huge slacker in processing my photo backlog. I still have a bunch from Seafair 2009 to go through! I built a new computer a few months ago in order to have a faster photo “editing” computer (really, “editing” == “filtering with Lightroom”), but that hasn’t really motivated me. Too many weekends travelling, [...]