A pinch of England

Yes we got on the plane back to the States. I am surprised that Tasha actually did leave India, and she told me one night in London that if I hadn't been in England meeting up with her, she would have spent a couple more weeks in India.

Got back in yesterday after a long day of travel for both of us on separate flights.

Here's a quick taste of our last day in England, viewing downtown London in very blustery British weather:

Tower Bridge



Sonia, Eric and Ryan outside of Tower of London



Garden outside of Buckingham Palace



Westminster Abbey



The full blow by blow will follow later.

Them boys crank hard

The best way to describe the bouldering in Buena Vista is sharp. I spent around seven hours bouldering and scrambling on Wednesday and I barely have any skin left on my fingertips.

I could wax hyperbole and dull you with superlatives, but I think the photos do it better justice. Yes, moving is a little tender today, although I did get in a good recovery ride on the bike, racing agains the impending thunderstorm.



The kid Ruben can climb pretty hard. It also helps he has the armspan of an albatross.



Robbie is another strong climber and has spent countless hours wandering around the brush, cactus and deer bones looking for new problems to shred your fingertips on. The problem he is on there was quite fun. Nothing like heel-hooking and slapping for a hold a centimeter deep.



Great rock, kinda sharp, just the holds face the wrong way and gravity is fairly stiff. I got up to the slapfest on the top. I appreciated the skin on my forearms remaining intact and did not like the high landing with my crash pad left a gully over.

Decompression time

It will be quite refreshing spending the night under the stars, cooking dinner over a campfire and trying to remove swaths of skin from my forearms. If you need me, come find me here: