Each of the past three weekends I’ve gone skiing. First I went to White Pass. Originally I had a few people willing to go with me, but they all bailed at the last minute, so I went alone. It was my first ski of the season, and I was by myself, so I opted for…
Author: Bob Baddeley
Opera in the Tri-Cities
Tonight was a dress rehearsal of Washington East Opera performing The Marriage of Figaro. Tickets were only $10, and I hadn’t seen an opera in a while. This was the first one I remember hearing in English, and while the singing was good, I have to say I prefer hearing opera in its original language….
Kansas Trip (Christmas with Mom)
On Christmas Eve I worked for a few hours, then went home and grabbed some lunch before Doug picked me up to go to the airport. I went through security, then flew to Denver, had dinner, and took my next flight to Kansas City. As I got off the plane, there was only one way…
Ice Harbor Dam
Nick’s dad works at Ice Harbor Dam, and he was kind enough to take a Friday afternoon with a couple of his coworkers to give a big group of us, about 12, a tour of the facility. We got there around midday and started with the standard museum tour for the general public. There was…
Darfur and Some Personal Conflict
We’ve been hearing about genocide in Darfur for a long time. Recently I even tried to understand what was happening over there. I tried the Wikipedia entry, but had a hard time figuring out who was fighting and more importantly why they were fighting. It seemed so pointless. Today I watched a movie from Netflix…
Sacramento
Sacramento was another leech-ish trip. Some friends went down to Sacramento for a conference. Carolyn found cheap tickets from Spokane to Sacramento for that weekend. And Rich lives near there and had a friend with a house where we could crash. It was perfect. Friday we took off work so we could drive up to…
Chicago
Things coalesced very well to make a vacation in Chicago into a spectacular trip. It started almost a year ago when I volunteered for an oversold flight and got a free ticket for the continental U.S. some time within a year. The year was almost over and I needed to use the flight. Second, a…
Flying and Rappelling in Wenatchee
Way back in March a group of friends and I flew to Wenatchee and went rappelling at Saddle Rock. It was a great day then. Saturday was the same itinerary, and just as great. 8 of us met at Richland Airport and got in our planes. I was in the back seat, and surprisingly had…
Another Short Seattle Trip
Friday was the third day in a single week that I was in the air. Wednesday barely counts because I was only in the plane to go straight up and jump out of it, but I still think it counts. This trip was for business, and to be honest, it was a lot of time…
Jump 24
It’s been over four months since I’ve jumped. It was before I went to Europe even. It’s not like I haven’t been trying, though. For the last couple months I’ve been going to the airport every weekend and wednesday evening, hoping there would be enough people to jump. Most of the time nobody was there….