2014 Wrap Up
If left to my own devices to remember the course of events that took place over the past year I would find myself lost. Sitting here wracking my brain for the order of things and what things happened this year as opposed to one of my other 30 some odd years on this Earth. Thank goodness for Instagram and Facebook. I guess they're good for something other than social networking - they've become my working memory and a photo album of sorts. God forbid that the internet every disappear, for along with it might go the bulk of my life.
This post was conjured up while sitting on a park bench in the sun, but now I'm realizing where I got the inspiration in the first place - after tracing my thought process back a few steps: from my sister. She just wrote a similar post on her blog which got me thinking about my 2014 and all of the special moments and highlights.
Actually, I wrote the following for our New Year's card (which will probably be more like a Ground Hog Day card), but we decided on more photos which necessitated more captions and resulted in less verbage. Still, I think it does a good job of summing up my (our) 2014...
"2014 was another adventure-filled year. We rang in the New Year in the Stone Hut with our BFFs. Enjoyed a long weekend of backcountry touring in the ADKs. Headed to Cali to jumpstart our biking season. Appreciated numerous relaxing weekends at CHAMP. Celebrated 7 years together! Road our bikes A LOT. Snuck in a trip to Germany & Austria for Oktoberfest and some epic hiking. And prepared ourselves to move across the country."
I guess I would add a few things, considering my word count was quite limited on the back of the Shutterfly card...
I got a brand new mountain bike and participated in my first enduro race. We attended Andy & Glenna's wedding. I left my job at Stowe Land Trust after 7 years. We worked our asses off to get our house ready to rent and rented it to the first person who came to view it. We stayed in the Stone Hut (again) with our BFFs, then skedaddled to Matt's folks' new place for Thanksgiving. We landed in Vancouver on 11/30 and Matt headed to work on 12/1. And for the past month we've been exploring our new city and province. Just this last weekend I went on my first ever overnight bike tour.
And poof, tonight it will be over and I'll begin to write 2015 instead of 2014 and it will slowly be filed away into the recesses of my mind only to be summoned when I nostalgically scroll through my old Facebook and Instagram feeds...
This post was conjured up while sitting on a park bench in the sun, but now I'm realizing where I got the inspiration in the first place - after tracing my thought process back a few steps: from my sister. She just wrote a similar post on her blog which got me thinking about my 2014 and all of the special moments and highlights.
Actually, I wrote the following for our New Year's card (which will probably be more like a Ground Hog Day card), but we decided on more photos which necessitated more captions and resulted in less verbage. Still, I think it does a good job of summing up my (our) 2014...
"2014 was another adventure-filled year. We rang in the New Year in the Stone Hut with our BFFs. Enjoyed a long weekend of backcountry touring in the ADKs. Headed to Cali to jumpstart our biking season. Appreciated numerous relaxing weekends at CHAMP. Celebrated 7 years together! Road our bikes A LOT. Snuck in a trip to Germany & Austria for Oktoberfest and some epic hiking. And prepared ourselves to move across the country."
I guess I would add a few things, considering my word count was quite limited on the back of the Shutterfly card...
I got a brand new mountain bike and participated in my first enduro race. We attended Andy & Glenna's wedding. I left my job at Stowe Land Trust after 7 years. We worked our asses off to get our house ready to rent and rented it to the first person who came to view it. We stayed in the Stone Hut (again) with our BFFs, then skedaddled to Matt's folks' new place for Thanksgiving. We landed in Vancouver on 11/30 and Matt headed to work on 12/1. And for the past month we've been exploring our new city and province. Just this last weekend I went on my first ever overnight bike tour.
And poof, tonight it will be over and I'll begin to write 2015 instead of 2014 and it will slowly be filed away into the recesses of my mind only to be summoned when I nostalgically scroll through my old Facebook and Instagram feeds...
