The boys are back in town...yea...it had to be a music title...

Well, 9000 miles (give or take) and 20 states later, we are back in New York. We arrived in Yonkers at 3:30 this morning after 15 hours of driving straight from Florida (that was a bit rough...). We passed out in my living room and got up this morning to deal with my mess of a truck. Let's just say it was an undertaking, and I will probably be finding random items in there for the next month or so...

We hung out for a little while and then I drove Alex back to his place in the Bronx (this is the first time I have been more than 120 ft away from him in over a month...and that was only when one of us was at the top of a climb...). We both have a lot of unpacking and reorganizing to do to say the least...

Thanks to everybody who let us crash at their place or shower along the way (that's you Kat, Natalia, and James...)...it was nice being able to feel clean every once in a while...and to have something soft to sleep on (I don't know if I will be able to sleep on a bed anymore...).

Also, special thanks to the Wal-Mart corporation for allowing us to sleep in a countless number of their parking lots and use their...err...facilities (I don't know if I will be able to go to the bathroom anymore without Alex in the stall next to me trying his damnedest to make me as uncomfortable as possible).

I don't think I am alone in saying that this was the experience of a lifetime and we both had a blast...honestly, I can't believe it is over already...I fell like it went by so quickly...

But, that said, we are both glad to be back home where we can see our friends and family whom we haven't seen in a month and change (give me a call and let me know if you want to do something...).

I hope you enjoyed following our trip, and, if you are interested, feel free to keep checking back with us...we are expecting to have a great ice climbing season, and plan on posting about all of our future endeavors on this blog. Well...hopefully we will see you around now that we are back in NY...talk to you soon.

Just letting you know we aren't dead...

Well, I guess we haven't blogged in a little while...we didn't have any cool climbing pics/stories, so we haven't been very motivated to do so.

Quick recap of our journey thus far:

Tuesday: went to the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, TN and drove into Nashville to see the Preds beat the Yotes (hockey...because I know nobody knows...) 3-0 (sick seats for $50...I would have been so far away for $50 at the Garden...). We met two locals at the game and went out to a pretty cool bar with them afterwards...good day.

Wednesday: driving...that is all...Nashville to Eustis, Fl where Alex's friend Kat and her family have graciously allowed us to stay through the weekend (I haven't showered this much in a really long time...I feel soooo clean). Thanks for the hospitality Kat.

Thursday: Thursday was Kat's birthday (happy birthday Kat). Alex and I slept in a bit and then we went out to lunch with Kat (Hibatchi) where the trend of me finishing Kat's meals started and has yet to cease (she wants me to be fat and I don't know why...). After that the three of us went to check out a local climbing gym. It was a bit small, but it was pretty cool. I felt really strong after this month of climbing...Alex and I bumbled up our first 5.12 (needless to say...we did a bit of hanging and re-evaluating...but we got to the top)...and I onsighted a whole slew of boulder problems that some of the local boulderer's seemed to be struggling with (we are pretty stocked to gauge our improvements at our local climbing spots like the gym and the gunks) .

Friday: Kat wanted to go Sky-diving for her birthday, so she and Alex went (I am still nursing a bit of a bum knee from a fall earlier in the trip...so I decided to sit it out thinking the landing might not be great for me and not wanting to ruin my ice climbing season...). They had a great time and I got some pictures/videos of them coming down. We went to a restaurant that let's you make your own pancakes...I had peanutbutter and bananas in mine...tastes exactly like you would think...like wonderful...Alex tried to get a little creative (he tried to make the little mermaid)...let's just say he doesn't have a future in pancake art. Then we rented Alice in Wonderland and watched it...pretty good stuff.

Well I guess that brings us to today...today Kat is having a birthday party at her place, and I think we will be spending the better part of the day getting ready for that...

Music:...err...I forget...

Quote of the day:

At the pancake place.

Larry : "What doesn't kill you, may give you explosive diarrhea"
Alex : "That is definitely the quote of the day"

Not much else to say (as if I didn't say enough already)...Monday we are heading back North and we should be home midweek (did you miss us?) barring any adventures/brainstorms. See you soon...