Returned home from a recent trip to Salt Lake City….did a little skiing, saw old friends T- and L-, G- and A-, and sister-in-law – it’s been far too long since we’ve seen any of them…Came back with a renewed desire to capture more of my travel in a more permanent form…hence the motivation to finally get this blog set up…

Got sidetracked into setting up various callouts to things like Librarything and Flickr – eventually I hope to weave the pictures, books and stories into more of a travelog…

The trip to SLC was good fun. Got a chance to ski/board with K- and E-, for the first time in a long time. All of us took some good spills, but nobody got hurt. We skied Brighton – they’ve opened up the western-most side of the mountain since I was last there 10 years ago (the Great Western lift). Some very nice terrain in there. Bluebird day, 6 or 8 inches of snow the day before, so there was a bit left by the time we got up there, even though the base was pretty light at around 70″. By Utah standards, only so-so skiiing; compared to east coast skiing, heaven!