Florida Motorcycle Ride

During our trip to Florida, we rented motorcycles and took a 4-hr ride to Navarre Beach and back.  It was awesome!  These pictures are from the state park on navarre beach.

 Tracy testing the cool gulf waters

Eric, Tracy, and our friend Rich with our sweet rides.

Matrix & the stages of scotch

On the 5th of November we got to go out to a nice un-anniversary dinner (that's like "un-birthday") courtesy of an L&E gift certificate at the Cottonwood Grill in Boise.  I got Tracy to try some good Scotch--and caught it on her new iPhone:

"Hmm, that smells okay...maybe scotch isn't so bad..."

"I can't believe I'm going to do this...and that zen is taking pictures..."

"Wait for it...that tastes okay, hold on...not sure yet..."

"AAAAAAAAGH, it burns!!!! How can you drink this stuff?  It's like turpentine!"

:-)
hee hee hee...zen

Idaho sunset

 One of our nightly views- beautiful!

And a cat who REALLY wants to be held- he crawled up my pant leg and settled for a one-armed shoulder perch.  Cute!

Hell's Canyon, 6-9 October

We finally made it to Hell's Canyon, after only 6 months of waiting!  Tracy's sister Kelly joined us, as well as some of the guys & gals from work.  Here are some photos from the trip, starting with the three of us at the put-in below Hell's Canyon Dam.

Tracy and Eric above Wild Sheep rapids, the first of 3 class IV rapids on day one.  We scouted it before we ran it so the guides could determine the right line to run.  Note Eric's awesome wetsuit....

Tracy with her river face on.  Note the oarboat behind us carrying all of our gear (including our kayaks!).

Tracy and Kelly above our day 1 campsite. 

Tracy checks the map for upcoming rapids.

River buddies!

More river buddies!

Russ, our guide, "boofs" off a rock above the river...about a 12-foot drop.

Day 3, we got in the kayaks.

Action!  Tracy on her way up from a "confidence roll," practicing for the real thing if the river flips us over.

A nice shot of the canyon from "Suicide Point," a point on the trail about 800' above the river.

Tracy and Eric at suicide point

The last day we got up very early to get to the take-out.  When the sun hit the river, we got a little river fog.  Here's a great shot of Tracy paddling the last rapids before the take-out.

Sisters...Hell's Canyon complete!

Seattle Road Trip

 First sight of Mt Rainier

 The view looking south toward Mt Hood and Mt Adams

One of the Washington wineries we visited