I didn't really take any vacation between defending my thesis and starting my postdoc. I'm thinking a good big break is in order.
I'm going to be at a conference in Phoenix from July 10th to July 14th. When I return, I'm thinking I'll take a couple weeks off, get a rental car, and do a big road trip. What follows is an entirely tentative schedule. If you have advice or comments on scheduling, or would like to appear on the schedule, comment here.
July 15th: Leave Los Alamos, camp in CO somewhere; possibly RMNP.
July 16th: NE state highpoint, drive east. Dinner with Aaron in Lincoln?
July 17th: IA state highpoint, drive to MSP. Stay with parents.
July 18th: Rest day; dork around MSP, lunch/dinner with Brooke, Brent, etc?
July 19th: Drive to Cedar Rapids, visit Doc and Mario at Coe, dinner with Chris.
July 20th: Illinois state highpoint, drive to Chicago. Stay with Jen?
July 21th: Indiana state highpoint, Ohio state highpoint, drive east.
July 22st: (Friday) Collect Nina from Middletown, CT. Drive to Maine.
July 23rd: Summit Mt Katahdin.
July 24th: Drive up Mt. Washington?
Spend the following week futzing around CT++. Fly back to NM on the 31st (Sunday).
This trip is largely a result of Nina's advisor not letting her escape to Los Alamos this summer. The abundance of state highpoints is purely a coincidence. They're practically on the way. Except the New England ones, which are respectable climbs (disregard that I'll be driving up Mt. Washington).
Now: Comment!
Nice! Totally up for hanging out. Maybe I could take that day off and you could come over and we can dork out on MAME and video games all day.
Funny you're going on a road trip, Annette and I have talked about road tripping the southwest. Doing Vegas to Pheonix to Albuquerque and spots in between. Of course one of the stops would be Los Alamos.
Anyway, yeah keep me in the loop, that sounds awesome.
Works for us. If you spent an extra day or so here you could get in WI and maybe MN highpoints.. Liz will let Jenny know you are coming.
July 16th works for me. If you want to crash out in Lincoln (along with dinner), feel free. You can actually meet the pups this time. I'll tenatively mark it down on the calendar and talk to you more as the date gets closer...