Italy here I come!

Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Well we had a busy week, my cousin Rob visited for a few days and we made the best of it.
Saturday- Went to Austria to see the Eagles nest, got up there and it was snowed out, that's right, couldn't see it in July because of too much snow on the road up there.
Sunday- We drove to Pula Croatia and saw the old collesium as well as went to the beach, had dinner in Slovenia on the way home along the seafront.
Monday - Took a half day trip to Vajont porridge and Lake Barcis near home.
Tuesday - We went to Venice for the day
Wednesday- Took my cousin to the airport, but did find a sports store in Treviso which has a 100' rock climbing wall and about 150 routes inside/out.

You can checkout all the pictures here.
http://public.fotki.com/Davis2001r6/italy-2010/

Jen has started keeping a blog and at the top of some of the albums there is a link to her write-ups. She's a little behind as well.

Now back to work for two more days and then need to find something to do for the weekend.

-TIM-

kurthzone · Posted: 7/22/2009, 4:06 pm Post subject:

Are you done with softball?
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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Not yet, still have a few games next week then playoffs start. We've lost a few guys to leave and injuries so it's making it interesting. If we can pull of the base championship we get a free trip to Germany to play in the USAFE tournament. It's a long shot right now but we did beat the only undefeated team left last week.

azbackpackr · Posted: 7/23/2009, 5:13 am Post subject:

desertgirl · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 3350 Location: Chandler, AZ

Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Did I mention long days at work? Maybe I might just rest for a weekend, 12 hour days are getting old fast.

Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

After another week of 12's wanted to get in a hike this weekend. I finally made it up to the "4 Peaks" that I look at everyday. Not really anything like them, still lots of climbing, but they have a much bigger feel. The hundred foot drops seem to be replaced with thousand foot ridgelines. I tried to climb to the highpoint Cima Manera at 7385', only made it to 7117'. The clouds came in and I hit a section I wasn't comfortable doing on a clear day. Missed a red + sign on the map underneath the black + that signaled the county border. Well the red sign meant that part was a Ferrata route (cable aided climbing) and I don't have that harness yet. Plus not sure I want to be doing those solo. So the clouds came right up and stayed on the ridgeline, they never did end up coming across the ridge until later in the day so I took a longer trail back down and did a little road walk to get back to the car.

Highlight of the day was seeing a herd of sheep hanging out at the last snowfield on the mountain. Yes I said that right, snow in August Smile

You can checkout my pictures here:
http://public.fotki.com/Davis2001r6/tims-hiking-trips-1/cima-manera-climbin/

-TIM-

Desert-Boonie · Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 219 Location: Glendale, AZ

Well at least you made it out for a good hike Timmy. I can relate to clouds rolling in and not giving you the best hiking conditions. Nice pictures, wish we had some snow around here. Smile

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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Sorry, been a little slow updating pictures and such. Still haven't got to do much hiking but have done a lot of sightseeing. Our last trip was to Budapest, Jen did a nice Blog on it you can read here:
http://jdombinitaly.blogspot.com/2009/10/budapest.html

Pretty amazing place, one of the nicest nighttime cityscapes I seen. My pictures certainly didn't do it justice. Nice easy drive to get there too, but my gas mileage sucked even in the honda when you set the cruise at 100mph for an hour straight. I don't look forward to ever driving in the US again.

GTG · Posted: 10/13/2009, 5:11 pm Post subject: sounds great

So what about the baloon festivals Tim? I hear that they have some great ones ove there.

GTG
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kurthzone · Posted: 10/14/2009, 8:21 am Post subject: Balloon Festival

Well, here's Tim just outside the gates of the Budapest International Balloon Festival!

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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

Nice one Stan, I think I need to look up one of Hooli's works of art for a repost.

Hikngrl · Posted: 10/16/2009, 6:02 am Post subject:

Oh my gosh Stan! You are so good! Davisnumbers, we miss you but have no fear. There is no lack of presence of your name being bandied about in the Canyon. Having you out of the country has proven to be quite convenient as far as that goes! We can get by with anything now and not soil our good names!
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Davis2001R6 · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy

I finally got pictures updated from recent trips, if your interested you can check them out here:
http://public.fotki.com/Davis2001r6/italy-2010/