I headed back from S. America to the USA. As usual we had some trouble getting the bike box and our other gear together to travel, but it all came together even if the security did make us delete the picture of the bike box disappearing into the scanner.
Luckily I got put in Business Elite on the Delta flight from Buenos Aires to Atlanta. Now that is a civilized way to fly even if they did have to bring me 3 sets of headphones to get one that played in stereo (the first was right only, the second left only, the third time was a charm). Not only was the food and service better (even if they did just switch planes and had multiple people booked in the same seats) and the seat way more spacious, but the seat went completely horizontal to sleep.
I got a chance to contrast it with the flight from ATL to SLC in cattle class. Not nearly as nice and no window...
I rounded up the bike box and other gear and Ian picked me up (thanks again). Then some gear sorting and packing and I was off to Las Vegas to the Red Rock Rendezvous where I taught slacklining the YogaSlacker way with another Tom
... "Hi, I'm Tom, and I'm Tom, and we're YogaSlackers". It was amazing how quickly some of the students picked it up.
Then I headed back to Bishop. I have many GB of pictures from the travels so I fired up my computer to get the images off my cards. Unfortunately this didn't work out so well. It appears that the hard drive in my laptop has Alzheimers. Luckily I was able to boot in Linux and backup what wasn't already backed up (I think). Not to mention the miracles of a linux boot cd (which I am using now).
Other things to get on are taxes, ordering a new hard drive (SSD upgrade), an endless list of house projects, cutting off the grizzly adams beard, and getting back into shape for climbing...
Hopefully once the computer is back functioning I can start posting pics from the last few months of adventures and new ones that I can get into.
