Winter Vacay

University of Wisconsin geographer Chris Limburg does a yogic headstand on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in Maine with our friend Dave Seluski. This December Chris was my first visitor in L.A. We had a blast and he helped raise my confidence that I made the right decision to move here. Among other events we went to a Lakers game (see photo below) and drove up the pacific coast highway. At the Lakers game we witnessed 20,000 people boo Brittney Spears when they showed her face on the big screen, then the same 20,000 people gave Jack Nicholson a standing-o. I felt bad for Brittney. We were in Maine because after Chris' visit to L.A. we both went to Boston to visit my sister Julie and other friends, including the pictured Dave S. I mainly wanted to go to Boston to keep Julie company since, as a new nurse, she had to work over the holidays.



Another UW geographer who happens to be from Boston, Abby Neely, was nice enough to take me in on Christmas eve and Christmas day while Julie was working. She's pictured below with her brother John. Abby studies AIDS in South Africa, and was living there for most of the summer. She is in a "Princeton" family, so I got to don some taunting apparel on Christmas morning.