Driving Back to School

How time flies. It seems like only yesterday I was making this drive for the first time. Now I've driven it for the last time. Somewhere on a lonely northbound stretch of interstate I found myself thinking back to that drive, a few years and a lifetime ago. I was in the same car, driving on the same roads, the back seat and trunk filled to the brim with boxes. Both times I found myself looking to the future with excitement and anticipation for the opportunities that would await me in the place I would spend the next several years. Both times I experienced the melancholy of leaving the familiar behind and facing the great unknown.

Of course, my first drive up to Tech was quite different from this one. With my bachelors degree almost behind me, I'm now making plans for graduate school. The familiar town I'll now be leaving this time is not the town where I grew up. Most importantly, this time there's someone in the passenger seat who's coming with me.

Weekend Trip / Snow?!

This morning I heard someone in the hall say that it was snowing. I didn't know what they were talking about, so I looked out the window. Sure enough, it was snowing. None of it stuck, but it was still quite surprising. There is always a survey at the front desk, and today's was to predict when the snow will stick this year.

This past weekend, Ashby and I took a trip to a "covered drive" just outside of Houghton that my Calculus II professor mentioned. Unfortunately, we were too late to see most of the leaves on the trees. It was still a very nice drive, though.

We also returned to the Hungarian Falls a bit farther up the Keweenaw. We had hiked to the falls earlier, but due to the drought over the summer, the falls were just a trickle. This time, with more rain, the falls were closer to their full force. Below are some pictures of the weekend's events.

Covered drive.

Blue sky?!

Lower falls.

View from the lower falls.

Upper falls.

Stream coming from the upper falls.