Liam

Well folks our son is here. I don't know what else to say except that we are so excited to finally have him here. These are some photos of us at the hospital.

I got a new bike: Transition Double

This is me jumping on my new bike. Oooh la la I like it so much. It is crazy how much more fun it is to jump this bike than any other bike i've ridden. Right now I've got it set up as a single speed with a rohloff dh single speed tensioiner, some white transition wheels, and a Marzocchi 4x fork. It's a fun bike. My awsome wife got it for me for Christmas and I've been building it up since. the gears right now area 36-13 but I've got a 28 tooth chainwheel on the way.

WE'RE BACK!!

Hey bloggers, sorry I've been gone for so long. We haven't done a single post since we were in Switzerland. It's not that we haven't done anything cool since then... we've just been lazy. No, we've been too busy. I'm finishing school this May and boy am I excited. Lauren is pregnant and due July 10. We are stoked for our little boy to come into the world. We went to Kauai over the college spring break. Here are some pics.

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All this text might run together so You might have to match the text up with the pic Another thing the swiss do is take advantage of their roofs. They either make them really steep and cool, or make them so you can walk on at least part of it. They also usually have trees and other shrubberies on them.

The curved wood beams in this pic are engineered curved glu-laminated beams. Other wise known as curved glu-lams. These are certainly the biggest ones I've ever seen. They are at the Bern Train station.

I've been dying to just walk around some of the neighborhoods down by Lake Geneva and look at some of the architecture, and note the things that the swiss do differently. A lot of it is what the rest of the world does also like the use of concrete. EVERYTHING is made of concrete over here. We shot this house because it had nice symetry and use of color.
This is also a prime example of a super functional thing the swiss do. Rather than plan a side door into the garage they put it right into the door. Plus it's a good use of color. Why don't we have yellow doors?

These people have there patio ontop of there garage. Good idea.
The red siding on this building are actually terra cotta things. so cool and good looking!
This is so you could get a better context of the building.
Coming soon! The biggest Curved GLU LAMS youve ever seen! AHHHH!

This was a really cool amphitheater in Avenches where the a real gold bust of Marcus Aurelius was found in an aquaduct. If you stand where Lauren is holding her hands out like she's the queen of the world then you are able to hear exactly what you're saying. The Romans figured out that if you speak 17 meters away from a wall then it will bounce back. So when you speak on that spot it sounds like you're talking into a microphone.
This is a typical shot in a town. This is Solothurn where there are 11 spouts on some fountains, 11 stairs per set in front of the cathedral, all sorts of groupings of 11.
This is Gruyeres. Very pretty, and this is the town that the cheese is named after. It's a small pedestrian village.
This is the entrance to H.R. Geigers museum/gallery. He was the designer of the "Alien" creatures in the movie. His stuff is pretty dark and scetchy. I'd like to say some of his work is boarder-line pornographic, but that wouldn't be quite true. I'll just say, some some of his work is pornographic. It was, however, pretty interesting.
This dude was lighting the place up with his awsome wood xylophone skills. I would have loved to see him and Ty Whitesides have a xylo battle. And yes he did sing too.

9:34 pm june 20, 2006 Leysin, CH

These folks behind Lauren are the Cox, they are our new friends.
This is a photo of Laur that I'm proud of. There is a train behind her. I shot it at a slow shutter speed but her body isn't fuzzy because my sweet new camera has a sweet image stabilizer that enables me to take sweet shots like this one without the use of a cumbersome and old fashioned, not to mention bulky, tripod.

cow fight

This was on saturday at the field of fighting cows. The farmers take the pregnant cows and when they're all together in the same field they naturally get in fights with each other. it was really cool to go there because there were no other tourists. It's a local tradition, so the people watching is great. eventually they will choose a queen and parade her through the streets.
This is what the cows do when they fight. except they move a lot more. This is just a still image called a photograph.
While fighting two of the prego vacas busted through a fence. It was funny 'cause they were simply man-handled back in. They are only mad at each other, not at humans.
We went on a hike up a canyon and had a little reading break here.
This is Dominique who is the owner, with his wife, of the hotel we're staying at. he so cool, he came and gave us a great swiss bbq up at the battle field.

Hey Everybody!

Welcome to the Wood Trip Blog!!!! As usual I'm having problems sleeping, but at least it's that I can't stay asleep rather than just falling asleep. Anyways, I want to include everyone in our trip but i dont' want to waste time sending a million e-mails every night. Well, the suns rising so if I get some good pics I'll share them with you.
see ya
wil