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been awhile. ok first things first. took a trip to d.c. for a few days. mainly to attend this conference. pretty good stuff actually. i am always interested in how folks from around the world are incorporating bicycles into their transportation plans and systems. at times they even point to my little town as a shining example of a good approach. not that i've been here long enough to take any credit for it, but its nice to know that i'm picking things up here that i may get the chance to apply someplace else if it ever comes time for me to move on. uyup.

so, whilst i was there i took an afternoon to do some museum hopping. first stop, the National Museum of the American Indian. very cool, i guess it just opened back in september. a great look at history and the present from a no-holds barred perspective of the American Indian. very insightful and humbling. second stop was national air and space museum. i felt like a little kid again - including getting the bejesus scared out of me by this frightening display of a space-monkey.

scarey space monkey

so the trip to d.c. was good, but pretty sad in the end. my grandma died while i was out there so it was brief return to fort collins for me then a weekend in lincoln spending time with the family and all of that. gonna miss her.

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