Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday spending time with friends and loved ones. I have to admit, Christmas came up on me pretty quick. I wasn’t very much in the holiday spirit, although the steady assault of Christmas music (>_>) and more so the recent (and awesome) snow fall back home kinda helped kick start it a little bit. In any event, the holiday season is always a good time to reconnect or just kick back and enjoy spending time with those you love.

I’ll be enjoying some R&R in Vegas awaiting the New Year with family. On that note, it’s funny how right after Christmas everything seems to shift to “year in review” mode. A tad annoying if you ask me, but I guess it has been as interesting as any other year. I say bring on 2010!

Weekend Venture on the Cumbres & Toltec Rail

Thought I’d share a bit and post some pictures from said excursion.

My grandmother has been in town as of recently, so my parents, middle brother, and I decided it’d be nice to show her more of New Mexico’s topography by way of an old-school steam-engine train ride. Whoo whooo! Apparently her father had worked on trains during his younger life as both a fireman and engineer, so it would be a nostalgic treat for her too.

Of course, I was totally game to spend time with “the fam” and get to explore a bit myself. I still suck when it comes to New Mexican geography, and I’d never been that much farther north of Santa Fe. Read more »