Turtles, Portland, Poon and back

On Sunday morning I went to a Reptile & Amphibian swap in Puyallup, WA.
I bought several supplies needed for the proper keeping of my Mata Mata that is on
the way.

Long Day...

I started work today at 8am and worked through lunch until about 4:30pm.
I was crawling around under dirty old desks and running back and forth
from the warehouse to the server room all day.  I'm glad its over.

After work, I went back to Uwajimaya to take advantage of their 10% off sale.
I purchased 8 drinks and 3 snacks to review.  After Uwajimaya I found my
way to a Thai place down by the Space Needle.  I don't even remember
what it was called.  I did however snap this photo of some strange graffiti
on the wall in the men's room.  It was drawn with pencil and I liked it for
some wierd reason....probably because it is really wierd.

NEST BEER

So I am up in Seattle again.  Its raining and I am tired and somewhat bored.
I finished all my work for the day.  Yesterday I worked a full day also, and stopped
off at Uwajimaya afterwords to get Linda some prezzies and get my fix of weird
Japanese food and drink.  Not much else.

The old dirt road home...

Our last day outside before we headed home and back to the drudgery of the daily grind.

Ryan did a little car surfin...

BRD & More Camping

On Saturday we went even farther north to the Black Rock Desert.

Garmin helped out a lot this trip:

Bull Basin

Thursday night we headed out north of Pyramid Lake to the Empire Ranch area for another night of camping.

It must be hatchling time for fence lizards, there were babies all over...

Waking up before sunrise at Dog Valley...

Tuesday night we headed up to the Dog Valley campsite just over the border.
I had to work the next day, so we decided to camp here since it is only about 20
minutes from home.  I figured I could pack up about 6:30am and get home in time to
shower and go to work.

We spent the afternoon hiking up the mountain.  We ascended over 1000 vertical feet
and capped out around 7600'.