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About Me

I'm a pilot and a teacher. I climb mountains (slowly) and kayak (slowly) and do things outdoors. I'm a very independent person, and I like to do exciting things that I can take pictures of and look back on to say, "wow, both me and my car made it through that!"I am an idiosyncracy. I will tromp through the woods one day, and wear a feather boa and heels the next. I go to Las Vegas and don't gamble. My job involves talking to people all day long, but I can be shy around people I know well. I can switch between "instructor Katie" and "normal Katie" at a moment's notice. I am a lifelong student, and have been known to ask incessant random questions in a quest for more bits of knowledge.

My Interests

Aviation, math (and all things nerdy), hiking (and everything outdoors).

I'd like to meet:

Other pilots; other "mountaineers" (or outdoorsy people); boxed-wine drinkers or plastic-cup-o-beer-with-your-name-written-in-sharpie drinkers (do you also have a full set of beerfest mugs?); someone who will either come with me, or let me go out and have my adventures alone, but still know that I love them and be there when I come home ...Get off your lazy butt and go outside to play!

Music:

In the car: Whatever's on the radio, mostly alternative rock/liberal talk/NPR/oldies
At home: XM Comedy Channel 150 (Ha!), or see "In the car" section
On the dance floor: Something with a beat ('70s/'80s dance), but nothing that encourages slimy guys to gyrate against me

Movies:

Action/adventure, drama, documentary. No romance flicks.

Television:

Anything CSI-ish, or any of the million variations on "Law & Order." Lots o' nerdy stuff on OPB.

Books:

Yes! Any and all. I think I have enough so it qualifies as a library.

Heroes:

My mom (for raising myself and my sister alone).
Cancer survivors, victims, and their families (for being the strongest people I know).

My Blog

Stranger in a strange land

And another adventure begins ... I´m in Ecuador right now for two weeks, working with Habitat for Humanity and a team of new-found friends to build two houses for low-income families. Some pictures ar...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:52:00 PST

Every day a new adventure

After I got back from my road trip, I wasn't quite back from vacation yet still had mountains to climb and places to fly to. I didn't think they'd be QUITE the adventure they turned out to be, howev...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:19:00 PST

Random road-trip ramblings (now with pictures!)

UPDATE: Pictures are in the "Grand Canyon road trip" album. :) Random road-trip ramblings, or, "I've been driving alone for way too long!"In no particular order, and of no particular significance, the...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:09:00 PST

What are friends for?

Life is good, if for no other reason that I feel at this point that I am surrounded by more people who care about me (in however small a way) than at any other time in my life. Ironically, this comes ...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:11:00 PST

The passing of a friend.

A friend of mine passed away this weekend. Cancer. We were not so close that news of his death makes me cry, but close enough that I feel I could call him a friend, and close enough that the news made...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:53:00 PST

A sad, sad day in Denver

Beer Spills in Denver Train DerailmentWednesday, May 23, 2007 A BNSF train carrying beer crashed into another locomotive in central Denver early Wednesday morning, spilling the beverage and fuel in a ...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:00 PST

I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys-R-Us kid!

I am adrift. I look around and see familiar surroundings, but my brain tells me they are foreign; "it's not yours any more." My house is in a perpetual state of chaos right now, as I pack up to make...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Sun, 20 May 2007 01:21:00 PST

The goose and the gander ... and the harem

Geese mate for life. If their partner dies, the remaining goose lives the rest of its days alone. One shot, and that's it. Why should humans similarly pin their hopes on finding just one person with...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:08:00 PST

You might be a mountaineer if ...

You own any of the following: an ice axe, a locking-gate carabiner, crampons, gaiters. You know what a blue bag is. Bonus points if you've used one. Extra bonus points if you've strapped your used o...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Sun, 06 May 2007 10:52:00 PST

A brief history of time, or, what I've done since high school

My forthcoming 10-year high school reunion has made me all introspective lately, and wondering what I've really done over the past nearly-decade. A fellow BHS class of '97 grad recently posted what h...
Posted by Adventure Girl on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:06:00 PST