Summer Sun Setting

After getting caught up on my friends Nate and Ingrid’s blogs [BumperSmash and iGetzIt] and seeing that the only thing that keeps my friend J.L. [LittleLostRobot] from blogging is moving to the hurricane ridden haven known as Houston (and he still twitters at that), I’m feeling that it’s time for me to post a new blog.

I’ve been saddened by the end of summer feeling that has been going on the last few weeks here in Boston.  The sun is setting noticeably sooner and the temperatures are starting to drop as well (as noticed by my roommate turning the AC up to “Frosty” from the “What’s cooler than being cool? ICE COLD!” setting.  She’s from the Midwest she claims, and likes it cold.

I must thank my lovely friend Laura for calling me up yesterday and inviting me on an impromptu trip to the beach.  It was a summer closer if you will, a last shot at warm weather, sun and surf.  One thing I must say is that I never expected there to be so many good beaches in New England.  Of the four I have visited this summer, I have four that I would call good beaches.  For some reason I expected them to be all cold and rocky like they are in the Northwest.  But alas, this is not the case.

Unfortunately the end of summer brings with it a list of things that I wasn’t able to do.   The list is very similar every year but I will still make the list in hope of not duplicating the same mistake next year.  Overall this is a list of places I keep wanting to go to:

1) Go Camping – I like camping a lot.  It’s something I equate with every summer, but this year- do to my lack of knowledge, odd work schedule and lack of friends in the area – camping has escaped me. Next year this will take high priority.

2) Go to Hawaii -  Now that my buddy Angelo lives in Hawaii, I feel I must take it upon myself to visit him and test the usability of his sofa as a bed.  This is very reasonably doable anytime of the year, so I hope I can scratch this off the list soon.  The main caveats: the 12 hour flight and the price tag that goes along with it.

3) Go to Italy (or anywhere else in Europe) – This falls under my “yearly vacation” topic.  I like to go to new foreign places but  as it turns out I never have the money or vacation time to do what I’d like.

4) Visit friends in Colorado and Utah – Okay, this one is better off for places I want to go this winter.  Tyler, Doug and Ingrid.  Get your couches ready for me.

Since people don’t like blog posts that are too long I should keep it at that.  My next post will be about “leafpeeping” and the fact that leafpeeping is an actual verb in N.E. as well as a noun (leafpeeper- one who engages in the viewing of fall foilage).  By late October I’m sure I will be one of them.

~ by audioscience on September 16, 2008.