Kris let me borrow his bike. I had a blast getting around Washington on Friday and Saturday on the bike. On Saturday the traffic seemed particularly backed up around the National Mall. I rode from the mall to Georgetown to meet Kris and Kristen for lunch, and I'm sure I got through town much quicker than the cars even after making at least one wrong turn.
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Lobbying in DC Fall 2007 - Just a few months before my last visit to DC Kris and Kristen had moved to the city after returning from 3 years in Asia, mostly with the Peace Corps in the Philippines at El Nido on Palawan. We hadn't quite stayed in good enough contact, so I didn't get a chance to see them on that trip. Only later did I find out that Kristen was working for The Wilderness Society. I had attended 3 different functions at her office during the time I was there.
This time they hosted me for 7 nights. Kris was in LA for work for part of the time, but it was the days that I was most busy with the lobbying efforts anyway. We had lunch together a couple days during the beginning of my stay.
For lobbying I was teamed up with Sky Chaney from Kanab. We visited about a dozen congressional offices trying to convince them to sign on to a letter to DOI Secretary Kempthorne. The BLM is in the process of releasing their Travel Management Plans for 6 Field Offices in southern Utah. The Moab FO plan is out, and they're designating off-road vehicle routes (ORV) in areas that the BLM themselves found to be wilderness quality during the 1990s inventory. Uh, there are federal laws about designating ORV routes in wilderness quality lands. There is also strong federal protection for cultural resources (archeology generally), and we emphasized that point.
We visited Colorado offices and a mish-mash of other places, mostly in the west, but we also visited a couple New Jersey offices and an urban Atlanta and urban Brooklyn office.
During my free time before the lobbying I had time to visit a number of museums on the National Mall. There's enough there to keep one busy for months. I focused on case studies at a history exhibit at the American Indian Museum, the history of galaxy viewing at the Air and Space Museum, and the African culture exhibit at the Natural History Museum. I also saw some incredible nature photographs and walked through the Botanical Gardens.
On my last night there Sky, Kristen, and I went to an Ethiopian restaurant on U Street. The food was great, and there was even some wonderful dancing as well. The only Ethiopian restaurant in Boulder is fairly expensive so we don't go there very often. I learned at the Natural History Museum that Washington, DC, is home to the largest Ethiopian diaspora in the world.
One day on the Hill Ethiopians were out in support of some legislation in Congress. Sky and I were in a hurry to get to a meeting so we didn't find out what they were working on. I said "tenastalinga" as we walked by. The man returned the greeting and didn't seem the slightest bit surprised. Visiting big cities makes Boulder feel so provincial.
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Lobbying in DC Fall 2007 - Just a few months before my last visit to DC Kris and Kristen had moved to the city after returning from 3 years in Asia, mostly with the Peace Corps in the Philippines at El Nido on Palawan. We hadn't quite stayed in good enough contact, so I didn't get a chance to see them on that trip. Only later did I find out that Kristen was working for The Wilderness Society. I had attended 3 different functions at her office during the time I was there.
This time they hosted me for 7 nights. Kris was in LA for work for part of the time, but it was the days that I was most busy with the lobbying efforts anyway. We had lunch together a couple days during the beginning of my stay.
For lobbying I was teamed up with Sky Chaney from Kanab. We visited about a dozen congressional offices trying to convince them to sign on to a letter to DOI Secretary Kempthorne. The BLM is in the process of releasing their Travel Management Plans for 6 Field Offices in southern Utah. The Moab FO plan is out, and they're designating off-road vehicle routes (ORV) in areas that the BLM themselves found to be wilderness quality during the 1990s inventory. Uh, there are federal laws about designating ORV routes in wilderness quality lands. There is also strong federal protection for cultural resources (archeology generally), and we emphasized that point.
We visited Colorado offices and a mish-mash of other places, mostly in the west, but we also visited a couple New Jersey offices and an urban Atlanta and urban Brooklyn office.
During my free time before the lobbying I had time to visit a number of museums on the National Mall. There's enough there to keep one busy for months. I focused on case studies at a history exhibit at the American Indian Museum, the history of galaxy viewing at the Air and Space Museum, and the African culture exhibit at the Natural History Museum. I also saw some incredible nature photographs and walked through the Botanical Gardens.
On my last night there Sky, Kristen, and I went to an Ethiopian restaurant on U Street. The food was great, and there was even some wonderful dancing as well. The only Ethiopian restaurant in Boulder is fairly expensive so we don't go there very often. I learned at the Natural History Museum that Washington, DC, is home to the largest Ethiopian diaspora in the world.
One day on the Hill Ethiopians were out in support of some legislation in Congress. Sky and I were in a hurry to get to a meeting so we didn't find out what they were working on. I said "tenastalinga" as we walked by. The man returned the greeting and didn't seem the slightest bit surprised. Visiting big cities makes Boulder feel so provincial.
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Lobbying in DC Fall 2007 - Just a few months before my last visit to DC Kris and Kristen had moved to the city after returning from 3 years in Asia, mostly with the Peace Corps in the Philippines at El Nido on Palawan. We hadn't quite stayed in good enough contact, so I didn't get a chance to see them on that trip. Only later did I find out that Kristen was working for The Wilderness Society. I had attended 3 different functions at her office during the time I was there.
This time they hosted me for 7 nights. Kris was in LA for work for part of the time, but it was the days that I was most busy with the lobbying efforts anyway. We had lunch together a couple days during the beginning of my stay.
For lobbying I was teamed up with Sky Chaney from Kanab. We visited about a dozen congressional offices trying to convince them to sign on to a letter to DOI Secretary Kempthorne. The BLM is in the process of releasing their Travel Management Plans for 6 Field Offices in southern Utah. The Moab FO plan is out, and they're designating off-road vehicle routes (ORV) in areas that the BLM themselves found to be wilderness quality during the 1990s inventory. Uh, there are federal laws about designating ORV routes in wilderness quality lands. There is also strong federal protection for cultural resources (archeology generally), and we emphasized that point.
We visited Colorado offices and a mish-mash of other places, mostly in the west, but we also visited a couple New Jersey offices and an urban Atlanta and urban Brooklyn office.
During my free time before the lobbying I had time to visit a number of museums on the National Mall. There's enough there to keep one busy for months. I focused on case studies at a history exhibit at the American Indian Museum, the history of galaxy viewing at the Air and Space Museum, and the African culture exhibit at the Natural History Museum. I also saw some incredible nature photographs and walked through the Botanical Gardens.
On my last night there Sky, Kristen, and I went to an Ethiopian restaurant on U Street. The food was great, and there was even some wonderful dancing as well. The only Ethiopian restaurant in Boulder is fairly expensive so we don't go there very often. I learned at the Natural History Museum that Washington, DC, is home to the largest Ethiopian diaspora in the world.
One day on the Hill Ethiopians were out in support of some legislation in Congress. Sky and I were in a hurry to get to a meeting so we didn't find out what they were working on. I said "tenastalinga" as we walked by. The man returned the greeting and didn't seem the slightest bit surprised. Visiting big cities makes Boulder feel so provincial.
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Lobbying in DC Fall 2007 - Just a few months before my last visit to DC Kris and Kristen had moved to the city after returning from 3 years in Asia, mostly with the Peace Corps in the Philippines at El Nido on Palawan. We hadn't quite stayed in good enough contact, so I didn't get a chance to see them on that trip. Only later did I find out that Kristen was working for The Wilderness Society. I had attended 3 different functions at her office during the time I was there.
This time they hosted me for 7 nights. Kris was in LA for work for part of the time, but it was the days that I was most busy with the lobbying efforts anyway. We had lunch together a couple days during the beginning of my stay.
For lobbying I was teamed up with Sky Chaney from Kanab. We visited about a dozen congressional offices trying to convince them to sign on to a letter to DOI Secretary Kempthorne. The BLM is in the process of releasing their Travel Management Plans for 6 Field Offices in southern Utah. The Moab FO plan is out, and they're designating off-road vehicle routes (ORV) in areas that the BLM themselves found to be wilderness quality during the 1990s inventory. Uh, there are federal laws about designating ORV routes in wilderness quality lands. There is also strong federal protection for cultural resources (archeology generally), and we emphasized that point.
We visited Colorado offices and a mish-mash of other places, mostly in the west, but we also visited a couple New Jersey offices and an urban Atlanta and urban Brooklyn office.
During my free time before the lobbying I had time to visit a number of museums on the National Mall. There's enough there to keep one busy for months. I focused on case studies at a history exhibit at the American Indian Museum, the history of galaxy viewing at the Air and Space Museum, and the African culture exhibit at the Natural History Museum. I also saw some incredible nature photographs and walked through the Botanical Gardens.
On my last night there Sky, Kristen, and I went to an Ethiopian restaurant on U Street. The food was great, and there was even some wonderful dancing as well. The only Ethiopian restaurant in Boulder is fairly expensive so we don't go there very often. I learned at the Natural History Museum that Washington, DC, is home to the largest Ethiopian diaspora in the world.
One day on the Hill Ethiopians were out in support of some legislation in Congress. Sky and I were in a hurry to get to a meeting so we didn't find out what they were working on. I said "tenastalinga" as we walked by. The man returned the greeting and didn't seem the slightest bit surprised. Visiting big cities makes Boulder feel so provincial.
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Lobbying in DC Fall 2007 - Just a few months before my last visit to DC Kris and Kristen had moved to the city after returning from 3 years in Asia, mostly with the Peace Corps in the Philippines at El Nido on Palawan. We hadn't quite stayed in good enough contact, so I didn't get a chance to see them on that trip. Only later did I find out that Kristen was working for The Wilderness Society. I had attended 3 different functions at her office during the time I was there.
This time they hosted me for 7 nights. Kris was in LA for work for part of the time, but it was the days that I was most busy with the lobbying efforts anyway. We had lunch together a couple days during the beginning of my stay.
For lobbying I was teamed up with Sky Chaney from Kanab. We visited about a dozen congressional offices trying to convince them to sign on to a letter to DOI Secretary Kempthorne. The BLM is in the process of releasing their Travel Management Plans for 6 Field Offices in southern Utah. The Moab FO plan is out, and they're designating off-road vehicle routes (ORV) in areas that the BLM themselves found to be wilderness quality during the 1990s inventory. Uh, there are federal laws about designating ORV routes in wilderness quality lands. There is also strong federal protection for cultural resources (archeology generally), and we emphasized that point.
We visited Colorado offices and a mish-mash of other places, mostly in the west, but we also visited a couple New Jersey offices and an urban Atlanta and urban Brooklyn office.
During my free time before the lobbying I had time to visit a number of museums on the National Mall. There's enough there to keep one busy for months. I focused on case studies at a history exhibit at the American Indian Museum, the history of galaxy viewing at the Air and Space Museum, and the African culture exhibit at the Natural History Museum. I also saw some incredible nature photographs and walked through the Botanical Gardens.
On my last night there Sky, Kristen, and I went to an Ethiopian restaurant on U Street. The food was great, and there was even some wonderful dancing as well. The only Ethiopian restaurant in Boulder is fairly expensive so we don't go there very often. I learned at the Natural History Museum that Washington, DC, is home to the largest Ethiopian diaspora in the world.
One day on the Hill Ethiopians were out in support of some legislation in Congress. Sky and I were in a hurry to get to a meeting so we didn't find out what they were working on. I said "tenastalinga" as we walked by. The man returned the greeting and didn't seem the slightest bit surprised. Visiting big cities makes Boulder feel so provincial.
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