Since you've been gone (sad emoticon)

Since my last visitors left, I have had a lot more time on my hands. Too much time. I've had to craft homemade adventures to keep myself occupied. One such adventure was tubing down my river from the mountains to my village. It was the most masochistic tubing trip ever undertaken by humans, I am sure of it. It started with a 10k hike without drinking water and ended with 5k hike without drinking water. The middle involved a lot of water, but mostly fast moving water running through a lot of boulders. Hard boulders. Needless to say, our over-inflated but still undersized Lada innertubes were insufficient protection.
Another adventure was riding bikes with Austin. I hadn't ridden a bike in over a year, and I hadn't ever ridden a bike in such bad shape. I could hardly walk the next day.
This morning, I had breakfast with Senator Lugar. He was generous enough to let us Hoosiers (minus Clint- Looozah!) spend an hour with him talking about Georgia, Peace Corps, Wabash, some college called Denison, etc. Here are some pictures:

Homies

What.