Bald Mountain Airport Vista (GCG4JQ) (try #2)

I took another stab at cache GCG4JQ today. I actually managed to get on the right trail. I had a nice hike, but ended up taking a trail which I thought would lead up the mountain faster, but actually dumped by back by my car. Since it was getting dark, at 3pm, which means rain, heavy, heavy rain with the thunder and lightning, and me with no umbrealla, I went back to the car and called it a day. Damn you Airport Vista! I will get to the top of that damn thing one of these days.

05.11.04

Sunghee is in Korea finally. The Sunday morning flight went as planned, however, a little snag showed up as her green card was issued before she was married, so it has her maiden name on it, while everything else has her present name. That’s going to be a problem when she comes back. I spent the day tracking down the marriage license, having it notarized and shipped that along with copies of all her other immigration papers via FedEx to her dad in Korea. That should be enough to get the green card changed at the embassy. *fingers crossed*

05.07.04

Sunghee left at 4:30 this morning to get on a plane at 9:40 in Albany to fly to Chicago, then from Chicago to Tokyo then to Seoul. At 7:15am she called and had apparently forgotten her green card. I called work, said I’d be a little late, threw my clothes on and left at 7:30. 1 hour and 15 minutes later (100 miles, you do the math), I arrived at the Albany airport to find that the itinerary that Sunghee had printed out the night before is completely wrong. She should be getting on a 8:50 flight, which had already left the gate. Frantic phone calls to the travel agency amounted to nothing as the computers didn’t come on until 10am or something. Anyways, she was not able to get on to the 9:40am flight. They did have a flight tomorrow, but the Chicago to Tokyo part was full. She could fly on Sunday from Albany to San Francisco then to Seoul, but, you know, she really wants to leave today. At 10am I escorted Sunghee to the shuttle bus so she could go back to her can and get on the phone to the travel agency to figure out what the hell was going on and I drove back to work. Fun fun day.

Update: Travel agency is still sticking by their guns that the 9:40 flight was hers and there’s nothing they can do. She’s back in Rutland for the next two days and is flying out Sunday at 6am.

4.25.04 Bald Mountain Airport Vista (GCG4JQ)

Sunghee and I decided to try this on after we dropped of CJ and I wanted to do something outside while it was still nice. We had GPS coordinates for the entrance of the trail, but didn’t see the sign for the trail anywhere so we continued a bit until we got to the “approx. 2 miles� mark from the start of Old Post Road and there we saw a trail with a sign holder (but no sign). “This must be it� we thought and headed off down the trail. Well, the closest we got to the cache was 0.9 miles as we were going down Bald Mountain instead of up it. We did wander past a few nice camping spots though and found a river. Then we somehow managed to lose the trail and get lost. I repeat, we got lost with a GPS. After bushwhacking up hill for about 20 minutes we found the trail again and headed back to the car to try another day.

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The “X” in the lower left is where we were trying to go. The red squiggly in the upper right is the path we tried to use.

On the way back to the car we decided to go out for some food. Where to go though? We just came out of the woods from a hour long hike and we didn’t really want to go back home to clean up and change so lots of options were crossed out. Plus it was 8pm on a Sunday night. Not a lot open. Sunghee hates Applebee’s, and we’re both kind of sick of Denny’s. Ponderosa was a option, but when I go a buffet I just grab all the stuff I like so I tend to get sick of those pretty quickly. Example, if you eat the Chicken Fried Chicken at Applebee’s no matter how much you did like it at first, you will start to tire of it. Then you can switch to the Bourbon Street Steak and all is good. But at the buffet everything is right there in front of you and you want to sample a bit of it all so it all becomes one big meal of meatloaf, chicken wings, mac & cheese and vanilla pudding. Anyways, we decided to go to the 99 with half of their menu has garlic something on it which Sunghee approves of.

So we’re at the 99 and the hostess seats us in a room with a “family� in a booth diagonal from us. The “father�, early 30’s, 6’2� or so, athletic build, is sitting with his back to us, the “mother�, early 30’s, 5’3� or so, blonde hair, 150lbs or so, has a chair pulled up to the end of the booth with a baby in a high chair on her left, and the “father� is to the left of the baby on the bench. To the right of the “mother� is a 4-5 year old girl and to her right is a 6-7 year old boy. Sunghee and I were pondering the menu choices when the girl started squealing in a annoyed manner. This got my attention and I lifted my head in time to see the “father� lean across the table and punch the boy in the head so hard that he slammed back into the booth. The “father� start trying to get out of the booth almost pushing the highchair laden baby over in the process. He’s trying to get the boy out of the booth and yelling “I told you not to do that! You always have to ruin dinner don’t you!? Come on, lets go to the bar.� The kid just has this horrified look on his face and is in shock. The “mother� just keeps looking straight ahead and saying “sit down please, sit down� in a very quiet tone. Finally he does and starts apologizing… to the “mother�. “He’s always the one to ruin dinner, you know that.� At this point I found a waitress and requested another table. Kids are kids, I can deal with them fooling around in a restaurant. I don’t like it, but I tolerate it. It’s not going to ruin my night. Watching a grown man punch a 7 year old boy does ruin my dinner, and evening, and probably week for that matter. Thanks a lot Mr. Asshole.

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