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Operation: Desert Storm Junior
Northern Arizona Theatre of Operations
4 July 2001 - 9 July 2001

Sounds nuts, but I paid a visit to Arizona in the middle of summer for a vacation, and it was one of the best I've been on in a looooong while. I'm kinda tired at the moment and would like some more sleep, so I will summarize with a few bullet points, and will probably provide a full debriefing at a later date:

Airline travel can really suck ass, you know? Coming home was delay after disaster after delay.

I got to stand on the famed "corner in Winslow, Arizona" -- such a fine sight to see. No girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford slowing down to take a look at me. (There was one painted on a nearby wall, however.)

Barringer Meteor Crater is totally cool. Knock, knock! Who's there? Ka! Ka who? Ka-Boom! 4000 feet across, and the actual crater is 550 feet deep (with the ejecta around the edges counted, it's actually about 700 feet deep). The weird thing is, when you're standing at the edge, it looks smaller than it actually is. Hard to explain...I guess being down inside the crater, you can't see any of the surrounding terrain to use as a reference point.

Flagstaff. Kinko's. Internet access.

Excellent steak.

Views of over 100 miles.

The smell of the desert just before it rains.

Watching The Matrix on my laptop, in-flight.

BEST OF ALL: Getting to see my friend whom I hadn't seen in four years (almost to the day), and to spend time with her again. Conversations that I'll remember four or five years down the road. Grocery shopping. Road trips. The strain of a 4-cylinder engine on some hills. Watching baby bunnies. Snuggling. Movies. Cooking.

All in all, the best vacation I've been on in quite some time. :-)

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