weekend

Mountains

Cabin

Rain

Family

Cards
...........The perfect weekend

road tripping it

Idella and me

Idella's little girl

my little niece Alexys which by the way is a little dare devil

My Grandpa Sanchez

Riding Grandpa's bike with my nephew Nathan

Last week I started road tripping it back to LA with a couple of stops along the way. I left Estes Park on Sunday and stayed the night with my brother and sister in law in Denver and then went to Colorado Spring to visit an old college friend Idella. She is living there with her husband (also a college friend) and two beautiful children. It was an amazing time, the last time I saw her was maybe 8 years ago and yet it seem like not that long ago and also lifetimes apart.

I then went to New Mexico and spent some time with family. It was very restful and I was able to do a little more processing helping me get ready to come back to LA.

I started the trip from NM back to LA on Friday. I think road tripping is such a great way to transition. I love the adventure of starting off even if it is only across the dessert of NM, mountains of AZ and the dessert of CA it seems like an adventure. My air conditioning broke in my car so it was a very hot rude awakening from the cool mountain air I have been use to. It was a good time to think and talk to God and see some amazing beauties of the dessert. I just loved thinking about the changes I have come through from the mountain to the dessert and now back to the ocean.

i am back in LA

I will write more later. Just wanted you to know I am back.

found my phone!!!!!!

Hiking Longs Peak

Narrows

The Trough

The Home Stretch(see the little people at the top)

Monday I hiked Longs Peak, its summit is 14,255, it was the first 14er i have ever done. One of the most popular but also one of the hardest ones in Colorado. Normally it should take around 11 hours for the 15 mile hike. There is quite a bit of a (non-technical) kind of treacherous climbing the last couple of miles. It was pretty amazing! Part of the last stretch is 1/2 mile climbing at a 35% angle then you get to the narrows a 1,000-foot decline the width of a sidewalk but in some place much much narrower. After all that you get to something they call the "home stretch" a class 3 climb that requires the use of all four limbs. From the bottom of Home Stretch it seems like there is still a thousand feet to go, but there are only 500 feet left. These 500 feet are at a 45-degree incline though. It is a really amazing hike. One of my hiking partners got very bad altitude sickness during the hike. She made it to the summit but it took a lot longer and then going down it was a lot worse. This hike should have taken about 11 hours but because she was so sick it took us 18 hours. She was so sick we had to take her to the emergency room when we got down. She was throwing up and could not hold anything down. The next day she was doing much better. We started on the trail head at 2:30am and got down at 8:30pm. That day I was up 24 hours straight so I have been trying to recover. I loved it though and would love to do it again sometime.

lost phone/ phone was stolen

I don't have a phone right now so if you need to get a hold of me the best way is email. Hopefully I will be getting a new one soon but I will not have any phone numbers. I have a back up of numbers in LA but that does not help me at the moment. So just email