Yep, on the longest, sunniest day of the year, up near the beautiful North Cascade mountains, with many of our closest friends and family, Jill and I tied the knot!
Acadia National Park 2018
8 years ago
Saturday, July 29, 2006
WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, on the longest, sunniest day of the year, up near the beautiful North Cascade mountains, with many of our closest friends and family, Jill and I tied the knot!
Twice!
Yep, we extended our wedding joy in to two major events... this one being the Fremont Summer Solstice Parade, where over 150 painted cyclists took part. Big thanks to Jeff and Rhett for the tandem, and Tim Sanders for another fantastic paint job! We even got our photo in the Sunday edition of the Seattle Post Intelligencer!!!
Friday, June 09, 2006
More human-powered adventurers
Happiness is getting somewhere under your own energy expenditure.
Erden Eruc has returned safe and sound from his U.S. bound cross-Atlantic solo row and is slowly easing into hectic city life, getting thinner arms and a bigger belly. :)
Welcome home, Erden!
www.around-n-over.org
Next up, 2 Seattlite lovebird Mangos, Scott and Susana, put their jobs on hold for the entire summer and hopped on their over-loaded bikes to tour southern Europe.
Well-versed in 5 languages, they'll be taking the Mediterranean seas by storm and you can follow them along at:
http://pedaltoportugal.com/
Lastly, back to the watersports, a 4 man Seattle team is embarking this Saturday on a high-speed row eastbound across the Atlantic. Called OARNorthwest, they're the only American team in the event, rowing from New York to the UK:
http://www.oarnorthwest.com/
Good luck to y'all!
Erden Eruc has returned safe and sound from his U.S. bound cross-Atlantic solo row and is slowly easing into hectic city life, getting thinner arms and a bigger belly. :)
Welcome home, Erden!
www.around-n-over.org
Next up, 2 Seattlite lovebird Mangos, Scott and Susana, put their jobs on hold for the entire summer and hopped on their over-loaded bikes to tour southern Europe.
Well-versed in 5 languages, they'll be taking the Mediterranean seas by storm and you can follow them along at:
http://pedaltoportugal.com/
Lastly, back to the watersports, a 4 man Seattle team is embarking this Saturday on a high-speed row eastbound across the Atlantic. Called OARNorthwest, they're the only American team in the event, rowing from New York to the UK:
http://www.oarnorthwest.com/
Good luck to y'all!
Thursday, June 08, 2006
The Countdown to...
Oh, Lordy.
My oh my, it's been a crazy (insert any time amount here)!
Jill and I are mostly moved.
We are wrapping up our classes.
We are buying gifts
We got our rings
I finally got some wedding clothes ;-)
We fly in one week
We marry in less than 2
We have several parties to attend
We also have an important event happening in Warsaw this weekend:
The Equality Parade
Warsaw, Poland's major political parties, Radio Marija and a unique version of the 'young Democrats society' are speaking quite loudly about their disapproval of gays, lesbians, bi and transexuals. High ranking politicians have said publicly that all gay men are pedophiles, are mentally deranged and should be gassed. Oh, but women aren't gay. Hmm. Poland is very homogenous in it's looks, style and political and ethical views. As a fairly new addition to the European Union, equality for all peoples within its borders is still a foreign concept.
The march is on at 1 P.M. this Saturday. The vehemently anti-gay All Polish Youth will also be marching, on a Warsaw city-approved route, which happens to be nearly the reverse of the Equality march, so a potentially violent rendezvous may occur in the middle.
For an English, soon to be firsthand account of how these events unfold, follow us along at our P3 site, which recently moved away from Google's Blogger to:
http://polishstyle.net/
Nearly every contributing member will be attending the parade.
Cross your fingers and hold your thumbs.
See you all soon.
Jeronimo
photo compliments of :http://gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/natural-science/_more1999/_more05/splash-of-stream-of-water-drops-multihue-rainbow-backdrop-and-ripples-1-AJHD.jpg
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
GRATULACJE, Erden!
Turkish Adventurer Rows Across Atlantic
By AA, Madrid
Published: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 zaman.com
Erden Eruc, a 45-year-old Turkish adventurer, started his around the world adventure by successfully rowing a 7.9- meter long boat across the Atlantic.
Setting off from Lisbon in Portugal on 19 October 2005, Eruc successfully crossed the Atlantic rowing to the Caribbean Barbados Island arriving on April 30.
He is the first Turkish man to cross the Atlantic Ocean powered only by his own muscle. Still rowing on the ocean, Eruc hopes to reach the Costa Rican city of Limon on June 5 or 10.
Dreaming of rowing around the world since 1997, Eruc first rowed from North America to Alaska in 2003.
Also planning to climb the world’s highest summits on six separate contents, not including the South Pole, the Turkish adventurer hopes to realize his dreams by 2011, if everything proceeds as planned.
Way to go, Erden!
Additionally, he already 'began' his round the world adventure by riding his bike from Seattle (his current home, where he lives with his wife, Nancy) to Alaska, then climbed Denali (Mt. McKinley), the highest peak in North America, and then rode back to Seattle...and has also completed the cross-North America-leg on bike, too. However, weather systems and water currents defeated the option of rowing from Flordia to Europe, hence his row east to west. Regardless, he's done a magnificent job and also did 98% of it solo, which was unplanned, too. Kudos to you, Erden, we're glad to hear you're safe and sound!
For more info, check out his website and boat/satellite tracker at:
www.around-n-over.org
Cheers!
By AA, Madrid
Published: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 zaman.com
Erden Eruc, a 45-year-old Turkish adventurer, started his around the world adventure by successfully rowing a 7.9- meter long boat across the Atlantic.
Setting off from Lisbon in Portugal on 19 October 2005, Eruc successfully crossed the Atlantic rowing to the Caribbean Barbados Island arriving on April 30.
He is the first Turkish man to cross the Atlantic Ocean powered only by his own muscle. Still rowing on the ocean, Eruc hopes to reach the Costa Rican city of Limon on June 5 or 10.
Dreaming of rowing around the world since 1997, Eruc first rowed from North America to Alaska in 2003.
Also planning to climb the world’s highest summits on six separate contents, not including the South Pole, the Turkish adventurer hopes to realize his dreams by 2011, if everything proceeds as planned.
Way to go, Erden!
Additionally, he already 'began' his round the world adventure by riding his bike from Seattle (his current home, where he lives with his wife, Nancy) to Alaska, then climbed Denali (Mt. McKinley), the highest peak in North America, and then rode back to Seattle...and has also completed the cross-North America-leg on bike, too. However, weather systems and water currents defeated the option of rowing from Flordia to Europe, hence his row east to west. Regardless, he's done a magnificent job and also did 98% of it solo, which was unplanned, too. Kudos to you, Erden, we're glad to hear you're safe and sound!
For more info, check out his website and boat/satellite tracker at:
www.around-n-over.org
Cheers!
Monday, April 17, 2006
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Bowling for Seattle
Last weekend, while perusing the DVDs at our local Beverly Hills Video store near the Best Mall Ever in Sadyba, I found a few nice scores to add to our puny collection: Raging Bull, Das Boot, Memento and the best deal was Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine (Zabawy z Bronią) for less than $3.
Little did I know that the timing of our purchase came just a few hours after one of Seattle's worst shooting rampages. Kyle Huff, a nice, quiet, large man from Montana, while visiting an after-rave party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, shot and killed Jeremy Martin, Melissa Moore, Suzanne Thorne, Chris Williamson, Justin Schwartz, Jason Travers and then turned one of his guns on himself when confronted by a lone police officer. Two others were injured and fortunately several escaped. It was a story that made little news here in Poland, but it did make it to the top spot on Google's international news page by the end of Saturday and remained there for around 72 hours and is, obviously, still front page news for all of Seattle's papers.
We watched Moore's Bowling for Columbine documentary last night. It wasn't the first time we'd seen it, but the first in a very long time. We're very familiar with his work, as we spent our second-to-last birthday (yes, they're the same) watching Fahrenheit 9/11 in the theater before going for an overnight hike to Mt. Pilchuck in a numb state, hoping that this film would be enough of a catalyst to oust Bush from office.
Oh, well.
How Moore mixes comedy with 'the awful truth', and yes, some manipulative images and quotes from a wide variety of politicians, media moguls and everyday people, it is still a stirring film that is both entertaining and educational and still has a strong punch four years after its release. But most importantly, this week's event goes to show that America's form of gun control is still way out of line. Yes, many people in America own guns, but so do Canadians, and our death by shooting rate is more than 1,000:1, respectively.
Kyle Huff already had a record of gun abuse back in Whitefish, Montana. The authorities there reduced the felony offense of "shooting up an 'artsy' moose" in court and he was allowed to keep his firearms which he later brought with him to Seattle and used in this killing spree. By law, the city and state had the power to revoke his weaponry...but everyone plays with guns in the Wild West...it's our right to bear arms, dammit, so we can't deprive this youth of his guns.
Some people and the police do have guns here in Poland, but they don't tend to use them on eachother like Americans are willing to do. Most deaths here seem to either be alcohol or driving-related, and not always when the two are mixed. It's economy, health care and infrastructure-related problems here, as unemployment and alcoholism is high, and the old communist-era roads are in horrible shape, where even the fanciest SUVs can take a tumble when hitting the massive potholes at high speed.
Has America's news media reduced its infatuation with presenting violent crimes since Bowling for Columbine was released? Unfortunately, I don't think so. More unfortunately, it's a form of marketing that is spreading around the world, marketing fear across the globe, with potential terrorists in London, Madrid, Morocco, Indonesia and even here in Warsaw.
Do we really have that much to be afraid of?
Little did I know that the timing of our purchase came just a few hours after one of Seattle's worst shooting rampages. Kyle Huff, a nice, quiet, large man from Montana, while visiting an after-rave party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, shot and killed Jeremy Martin, Melissa Moore, Suzanne Thorne, Chris Williamson, Justin Schwartz, Jason Travers and then turned one of his guns on himself when confronted by a lone police officer. Two others were injured and fortunately several escaped. It was a story that made little news here in Poland, but it did make it to the top spot on Google's international news page by the end of Saturday and remained there for around 72 hours and is, obviously, still front page news for all of Seattle's papers.
We watched Moore's Bowling for Columbine documentary last night. It wasn't the first time we'd seen it, but the first in a very long time. We're very familiar with his work, as we spent our second-to-last birthday (yes, they're the same) watching Fahrenheit 9/11 in the theater before going for an overnight hike to Mt. Pilchuck in a numb state, hoping that this film would be enough of a catalyst to oust Bush from office.
Oh, well.
How Moore mixes comedy with 'the awful truth', and yes, some manipulative images and quotes from a wide variety of politicians, media moguls and everyday people, it is still a stirring film that is both entertaining and educational and still has a strong punch four years after its release. But most importantly, this week's event goes to show that America's form of gun control is still way out of line. Yes, many people in America own guns, but so do Canadians, and our death by shooting rate is more than 1,000:1, respectively.
Kyle Huff already had a record of gun abuse back in Whitefish, Montana. The authorities there reduced the felony offense of "shooting up an 'artsy' moose" in court and he was allowed to keep his firearms which he later brought with him to Seattle and used in this killing spree. By law, the city and state had the power to revoke his weaponry...but everyone plays with guns in the Wild West...it's our right to bear arms, dammit, so we can't deprive this youth of his guns.
Some people and the police do have guns here in Poland, but they don't tend to use them on eachother like Americans are willing to do. Most deaths here seem to either be alcohol or driving-related, and not always when the two are mixed. It's economy, health care and infrastructure-related problems here, as unemployment and alcoholism is high, and the old communist-era roads are in horrible shape, where even the fanciest SUVs can take a tumble when hitting the massive potholes at high speed.
Has America's news media reduced its infatuation with presenting violent crimes since Bowling for Columbine was released? Unfortunately, I don't think so. More unfortunately, it's a form of marketing that is spreading around the world, marketing fear across the globe, with potential terrorists in London, Madrid, Morocco, Indonesia and even here in Warsaw.
Do we really have that much to be afraid of?
Sunday, March 26, 2006
PolPics.com and other news
Hi!
Long time no read, eh?
First off, check out this nice link, in English, called PolPics:
http://polpics.com/
It's a massive collection of intriguing photography from all around Poland, and since I've been so lame about putting up my own semi-decent shots, you might as well check out the pros' work.
We have our first American visitors in a long while coming soon, and they're both named Kris!?!
This Wednesday, our first contestant on the Polish Zloty Price is Right is Kris Cummings, from Seattle/Phoenix. We met through the Seattle Mountaineers on a lovely epic climb of Guye Peak's West Face several years ago. She has a great dog named Lucy (and another new one now), but the pets aren't coming to torture Dudek this time around. I think we'll do the Warsaw/Krakow thing, then she's off to Copenhagen to visit other US expats, then to Budapest...then back here again for more churches and WWII memoriabilia.
Next up is KJ, Krash, Kris-Cross, island boy, the man, the myth, the legend, my best friend from oh so many years, Kris Morrison. He somehow not only fenagled a 3 week trip to Europe this spring, but got almost another week off for mine and Jill's mid-week wedding in June. That's pretty sweet! I'd love to quit work for the full time he's here and join him. He's doing the War-Krak-Praha-Wien-Budapest loop. I haven't seen him in over 2 years...this will be fun!
We're super psyched both Krises are coming and they're also bringing some tasty treats from home! Yummy!
OK, what else is shakin'?
Spring came, happy equinox! The temps have been above freezing every day for over a week now! Rain came and the snow is starting to vanish! I've been running, cycling, swimming, climbing, lifting and doing some yoga...more sun means happier Jill and Jeremy :)
We like Poland, and we're here another year, but we've decided to try sunnier climes next time around...but where will that be?
Dudek is doing well, but he's feeling super cramped up in our flat. He got his rabies shot this week and he'll be venturing out soon. By the way, we're still looking for cat caretakers for the summer if you're interested!
Jill's spring break is coming, so as Kris #2 arrives, she'll already be in the middle of her Italian/Tuscan bike tour with Lisa. Yesterday we rode 50 km and her bum was hurtin'... and the two of them are riding today-nothing like crash course training for a week long bike tour. I wish the newbies the best of luck! But how bad could it be, bike touring through one of the most beautiful parts of Europe, where the temps are already nearing 70 F every day and the flowers starting to bloom.
Yes I'm jealous. We'll be fighting over the camera for that week, I'm sure.
So 2 and 3/4 months to go until our big day! :)
If anyone sees any cheap flights that'll get me back in time for my wedding, I'd greatly appreciate it!
;-)
cu!
jr
Long time no read, eh?
First off, check out this nice link, in English, called PolPics:
http://polpics.com/
It's a massive collection of intriguing photography from all around Poland, and since I've been so lame about putting up my own semi-decent shots, you might as well check out the pros' work.
We have our first American visitors in a long while coming soon, and they're both named Kris!?!
This Wednesday, our first contestant on the Polish Zloty Price is Right is Kris Cummings, from Seattle/Phoenix. We met through the Seattle Mountaineers on a lovely epic climb of Guye Peak's West Face several years ago. She has a great dog named Lucy (and another new one now), but the pets aren't coming to torture Dudek this time around. I think we'll do the Warsaw/Krakow thing, then she's off to Copenhagen to visit other US expats, then to Budapest...then back here again for more churches and WWII memoriabilia.
Next up is KJ, Krash, Kris-Cross, island boy, the man, the myth, the legend, my best friend from oh so many years, Kris Morrison. He somehow not only fenagled a 3 week trip to Europe this spring, but got almost another week off for mine and Jill's mid-week wedding in June. That's pretty sweet! I'd love to quit work for the full time he's here and join him. He's doing the War-Krak-Praha-Wien-Budapest loop. I haven't seen him in over 2 years...this will be fun!
We're super psyched both Krises are coming and they're also bringing some tasty treats from home! Yummy!
OK, what else is shakin'?
Spring came, happy equinox! The temps have been above freezing every day for over a week now! Rain came and the snow is starting to vanish! I've been running, cycling, swimming, climbing, lifting and doing some yoga...more sun means happier Jill and Jeremy :)
We like Poland, and we're here another year, but we've decided to try sunnier climes next time around...but where will that be?
Dudek is doing well, but he's feeling super cramped up in our flat. He got his rabies shot this week and he'll be venturing out soon. By the way, we're still looking for cat caretakers for the summer if you're interested!
Jill's spring break is coming, so as Kris #2 arrives, she'll already be in the middle of her Italian/Tuscan bike tour with Lisa. Yesterday we rode 50 km and her bum was hurtin'... and the two of them are riding today-nothing like crash course training for a week long bike tour. I wish the newbies the best of luck! But how bad could it be, bike touring through one of the most beautiful parts of Europe, where the temps are already nearing 70 F every day and the flowers starting to bloom.
Yes I'm jealous. We'll be fighting over the camera for that week, I'm sure.
So 2 and 3/4 months to go until our big day! :)
If anyone sees any cheap flights that'll get me back in time for my wedding, I'd greatly appreciate it!
;-)
cu!
jr
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