Fine Metals

One of the benefits of my job is the ability to take classes. Click here to view the blog for the class

Santa Monica bike path

Once again I was lucky enough to find myself in California! This time I rented a bike and rode the the bike path from some where north of Santa Monica down to Venice Beach.

You can see the pier in this image, it's about 1/3 the way up from the bottom of the track.


Click here to see a nice image of the pier in Venice beach that I made in November 2005

Burlington Vt, To Portland Me

I recently had the opportunity to travel with Harjit to Portland Maine.

We took two different routes, one route was 5 miles longer than the other, but faster. In the image below, we took US93 North to Route 4 east over to Portsmouth NH. It's a secondary road with a bunch of stop lights and little towns. On the return trip we used 101 West (the lower track), it's longer but faster because it's all highway.



Going south to Portland:
BTV
US89 South
US93 North
NH 4 East
US95 North

250 miles: 65.1 avg m/hr

Going north to Burlington:
Portland
US95 South
US101 West
US93 North
US89 North

255 miles: 71.3 avg m/hr




We went over a couple hills too....

La Jolla Canyon California

I recently had the oppotunity to hike La Jolla Canyon in La Jolla California. It's a pretty easy hike, about 7 miles around the canyon. You start at basically sea level and climb over 1000ft. The views are amazing, well worth the trip.



This is the altitude profile of the hike.



I you have Google Earth installed on your computer Click Here to view the track

I hope to have a few more pictures to post soon.