More travel...Seattle.

Ok, I'm back again.  The only interesting thing that I can show you is Seattle pictures, so here you go!  And yes, some of the pictures suck because it was dark out or infinitely grey....but you'll get the idea.

Elysian brewery's public house.

A cool piece of artwork sculpted out of the rock under a bridge.  And that's a real VW Bug under his hand.

Sweet bike rack art!

The Utilikilt store!

If you don't own a kilt....you should!

Cool keg table at the Freemont Brewery.

The beer list at Freemont....and in the very left of the pic is their 10 gallon homebrewer type test system.

Ok, that's good for a starter.  As you might imagine there are space needle pictures too....but they're on wifey's camera.

All in all it's a cool city.  We walked pretty much everywhere.  It was pretty much always gray and rainy (but not prohibitively so).  These things I expected.

The only thing I didn't expect....they park cars everywhere.  The on street parking is so dense and on such small streets that the roads literally become one way.  Like you couldn't pass a car coming at you if you needed to.  I didn't get a pic of it but it made me feel almost claustrophobic when we did drive around town.  Thankfully, our host has mad driving and parallel parking skills!

Keystone Complete Streets Meeting!

Another big meeting to help get complete streets pushed through on Keystone.  Come give your two cents if you don't want the status-quot for 4 lane roads through small neighborhoods!

Here's the details:

Finally....a St. Georege report.

Over Christmas, wifey and I met up with my folks in St. George, Utah.  I think this is our third trip there but the last one was more than 5 years ago, so it was definitely time.  If you've never been to the area here are a few things you should know.

One.  It's south of here so normally it's pretty warm and inviting.

Two.

It is home to Snow Canyon State Park.....and beautiful red rocks with tons of running trails, climbing, mountain biking, etc.  Basically, an outdoor playground.

Three.

They deck the place out with lights for Xmas....so it's fun to hang out.

Four.

It's only an hour to Zion National Park....and the Narrows (and many other trails)....which make great trail runs.

Even when they are frozen solid and completely treacherous.  

Hidden Canyon Trail was supper slippery.

You can find the ice covered trail below if you look....

The view from the top was worth it!

Five.

Despite the rumors....there is beer in Utah.  Ummm....well, yeah it is 3.2% unless you can find some bottled versions.  However, in general this can be solved by driving down with a large cooler!

Six.

Mountain biking is just as good as it is in Moab!  Ok, on most trails most of the time.  We did happen to be there after some pretty big snow....so the trails were a bit wet in some of the classic riding areas.  This didn't mean I didn't have good rides.....just that I didn't take enough pictures.

Here's some of the messy ones....which were still totally fun!

Seven.

More great hiking/running to petroglyphs!  No fences or anything...you can just walk around in them.

Eight.

Quality time with the family over the holidays!

So that was St. George in a nut shell.  So if you need a vacation destination for all your family, trail running, and biking needs you definitely should add it to your to do list!

An "instant" tandem with double the pedal power!

Of course there's a tube involved.....why wouldn't there be!?

Warm weather in winter!

Well, the skies may be a bit grey this morning but it sure holds in the heat!  I think it was 42 when I got up this morning.  And since my in office clients are gone, I had a most enjoyable ride in this morning.

Nothing special....just pictures of the ride and the grey skies.

Mount Rose....where the snow is supposed to be.  Right now it's more fun to bike and run than ski, which is a bummer.

Apparently the geese like the warm weather as well...along with an all you can eat buffet.

Cluttered and busy....

Yeah, I know nothing has been happening on the blog.  It's a combo of holiday travel and a busy schedule in the office.  Kinda like the bike room....just cluttered.  But hey, who complains about too many bikes in life!

Anyway, I'll get to a St. George post eventually.  Until then there has only been runnning.  Wifey is back in marathon training mode and the weekend contain miles and miles of fun.  Including a 13 miler for wifey!

Here's part of a hike/run up Peavine.....there might not be any snow this year, but the trails are in great shape!  Yeah, sorry....I have to figure out how to the the arm band/camera phone not to take pics of the arm band!

St. George Bicycle Art.

More real stuff about this trip soon.  Until then, here is some evidence that St. George knows who it's  tourists are!