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Flagstaff!
Jan. 15th, 2008 07:25 am
After spending only one full day back in OC since the last adventure, last Saturday I trotted down to the local train station and purchased a train ticket.
"4:37 to Flagstaff please" I said. "THATS IN TEN MINUTES!!" exclaimed the ticket agent. He complained that the train was "99% full" and that he was getting me the last ticket availalbe and that next time I should book a week in advance (psh if I wanted to do that I'd FLY), but I got a ticket and hopped on the train.
13 hours later I stepped off the train into the snowey pre-dawn air of 7,000 feet in Flagstaff. Its a good thing I chose to take the train, since the highway in and the local airport were both snowed in! 120 trains a day doesn't give the tracks enough time to build up snow between trains though.
We got another foot of snow in Flagstaff the next day. I think it'd been three years since I'd last been in snow! So there was the making of snowmen and snow angels and such. Got to see many of my friends in Flagstaff, and Vern, one of my favourite people, even drove up from Phoenix to hang out with all of us Friday evening.
Once the road and cleared a bit later in the week Kerri & I drove down the mountain to the town of Sedona where there was no snow so we could hike about.
Altogether, it was an excellent adventure.
OC: A Hive Of Drama
While I was still up in Flag, the boss at Bee Busters called me to ask if I could go up with him to Redding this week to work on some bees, --thus lining up my next adventure / employment before I even got back!
Yesterday I stopped in at the bee cave to see what was going on.
Apparently, after they lost the election, the former officers of the OC Beekeepers Assn tried to register the OCBA name with the county and incorporate it -- thus discovering that we had already done so precisely to prevent them from this! They then sent an email to an unknown number of members of the organization calling Dave a "lowlife" and implying he had dubious motives for registering the name. HOWEVER, I would like to point out that they wouldn't know he had done that if they hadn't tried to do the exact same thing, and the only reason we did was so they couldn't.
They have proceeded, apparently, to create a NEW bee club (and registered / incorporated its name asap) and are going around trying to take the OCBA's old venues. Needless to say, this all seems excessively silly.
Anyway, after once again only spending one full day here, this morning I join Dave & Dr Theones on a trip up to Redding for several days to work on bees.
