Travel

No wonder I stayed slightly screwed up.  A neurologist once told me that people with migraines have bodies that don't adjust well to changes in diet, sleep patterns, stress levels, caffeine levels...well, levels of just about anything you can imagine.  So, when the weather starts getting erratic and crazy I tend to start having issues.  I mean headache issues - there are some issues that just can't be explained :)

For example, last week (part of the time it was cold in Atlanta) I was here:

This is the beach at San Diego, California.  We were staying here:

It's the Hotel del Coronado, a very old but famous hotel.  Kind of cool.  The hotel not the weather.  Then I came back to Atlanta and it was a little warmer.  Then, it snowed over the weekend.  Then, it started it warming up.  It got to the 80s and guess where I went?

Right.  To Snowbird, UT where it was getting down to 12 degrees and it had gotten 18 inches of snow the night before I got there.  Now for anyone who hasn't caught on, I do not like cold weather.  CBT saw this picture and said, "Heaven."  I kind of thought of the other place, which is kind of ironic when you stop and think about it.  Traci, I really don't know how you guys do it.

So, a few of us decided that we should take advantage of the fact that we were at this great ski resort.  None of us were going to ski, but we could take the tram to the top of the mountain.

Do you see any differences in the next two pictures?

Exactly.  We didn't have ski caps on.  Oh, and we also didn't have ski boots on.   This is not a good thing when you have to walk over patches over ice.  (It also results in a kind of funny exchange when you ask the concierge if you can walk to the tram.  She walks around the counter to look at your shoes and she says, "Oh, no.  Not with those shoes.  You'll need to take the shuttle.")

It was worth the $12 and the cold nose to ride up, stand outside in the cold for 10 minutes and ride back down.  The views were spectacular, but I was kind of glad that I wasn't skiing all day.  No wonder those folks look kind of dried up and wrinkled.  It's dry and cold up that high.

There's also not much oxygen at the altitude.  I'm surprised BAW didn't have a few wisecracks for me up there along those lines.  He's usually pretty quick and witty - maybe he was suffering from oxygen deprivation himself.

Good idea, BAW and Lori.

Any way, I get back home to very warm weather, which immediately turns to cool, rainy weather and I wonder why I have a migraine...but just look at what all I got to see.