I ended up having a wonderful week off in California to just hang around and turn off my brain for a bit. It was quite a good time. The ability to clear my thoughts and just stare out into the vast tract of city below was amazing, I need more of that in my life.
Driving to Los Angeles last weekend there was a lot of "think time" built in as I tore down I-5 in a frantic attempt to escape the cold of Seattle for the warmth of Southern California in my road ready and battle tested Saturn Vue. A mighty fine and capable automobile I might add; model year 2008, less than 50K miles and a fresh set of Goodyears', the ol girl sure is humming along great! Back to the topic at hand...thinking and vacation time.
This is the first instance I've had with uninterupted time off in which to do nothing and turn my brain off in several years and let me tell you, having days off with absolutely noting to do has been pretty fantastic. I can see why people do this type of thing and do it frequetly based on all the folks I see milling around these parts during the mid afternoon. All in all, I've spent the early part of the week lounging around Marc's Southern California Bro Compound with little complaint.
I have done some of my favorite things so far.
When I will come back, who knows. I will probably begin that trek Saturday or Sunday depnding on state of mind (Sunday if i am Crazy). Until then there will be much in the way of turkey deep frying and fun having. Pictures of which I am sure you will see. For now, enjoy this...
Los Angeles from Griffith Observatory
We can live on Blue Mountain, like living in a sunset
Summer Days
so much majesty in this photo http://t.co/nFgp5ySGkZ
— Andrew W. Sprung (@sprungtastic) July 30, 2013
Spent a short but productive five days in Michigan for Jimmy's wedding a few weeks ago. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to spend a lot of time with folks of which I'd grown accustom to seeing almost everyday over the past seven years or so, and then all of a sudden didn't when i moved out to the west coast in March 2010.
You don't really know how much you miss some folks until you've been away for so long..
Hanging with the crew in Michigan
Captured a Time lapse of my drive to Stinson Beach this past November and then the subsequent drive home to San Francisco the following day. Once again this took me way too long to compile but here it is! Lovely piece of the California coast that everyone should experience at least once in their life. Enjoy!
Uploaded by Andrew Sprung on 2013-08-29.
Well Well Well
Post Omniture Summit, Marc and I stayed the weekend in Salt lake city to go skiing/snowboarding at the Canyons, located just outside of Salt Lake. This was probably the most difficult placed I have been to date from an altitude perspective. After 1 run down, which took about an hour, many a break had to be taken before we went back up for another run. Overall a very fun weekend.
