Lisa and I took a five day ”engagement-moon” road trip to the south over New Year’s 2010. One of my projects is to summit the highest point in all 50 states, and a few continents and countries as well. We stayed with some good friends in Indianapolis the first night, then the second day drove to Asheville, NC where we stayed again with friends up in the mountains – celebrating New Years by lighting off a bunch of firecrackers with their five year old and playing dino board games, much fun and laughter had by all. Turns out that in the winter most of these southern state high points are closed to vehicle traffic, and most being drive-ups, this complicated our task. Read the rest of this entry »
High Points trip including SC, KY, and GA, attempt at NC
January 11, 2010
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Adventure Engagement
January 5, 2010So my girlfriend and I went to get dinner the eve of Christmas eve 2009 at the restaurant where we met – nice place, Four Farthings here in Chicago. It was a cold, blustery night and there was a freezing rain/snowstorm going on. We had a great time at dinner and then went for a planned walk on the beach, entailing maybe a 3/4 mile walk through the snow in the park and over North Avenue bridge which was coated in a sheet of ice, handrails, stairs and all. We crunched our way out onto the beach with rain and sleet biting into our faces, Lisa still in a great mood but having no idea what was coming. I had wrapped some fake boxes back at my place that she saw before dinner – none ring-box-shaped to her disappointment. We continued on down the freezing beach in the dark with wind and huge waves crashing onto the shore. Lisa finally said she’d like to turn around, and as she did, back to the wind and the freezing rain, I said “well in that case I have something to ask you” and dropped to one cold wet knee. She proceeded to lose
her mind and eventually composed herself and asked me to do it again and said “yes!” See the videos below for a sense of it. The first video is pretty entertaining in my opinion.
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