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Ellen

About Me

Yes, that's me. I play bass for Death Valley . I like taking photographs , riding my Ducati, playing with my dog, training mixed martial arts at Team Quest, fitness, and traveling. I'm always trying and learning new things. I don't sit still for very long and I'm not much of a spectator.

My Interests

Motorcycles, Photography, Rock and Roll, MMA, Travel, Running, Hiking, Mountain and Road Biking, Lifting Weights, CrossFit, Scuba Diving, Surfing, Skiing, Snowboarding, Learning to Whitewater Kayak, Horseback Riding, Rock Climbing, Drawing, Graphic Design, HTML Geekery, Reading, Scratching My Dog's Tummy"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
- Dorothy Parker

I'd like to meet:

Me getting pwned by the Nile in Jinja, Uganda:

Music:

MC5, Turbonegro, Lovely , Gluecifer, Hellacopters, Chinatown, Jackie, Post Stardom Depression, Golden Gods, The Makers, Blackout Radio, Safari, Rolling Stones, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Buddy Holly, The Cars, Chuck Berry, The Cult, Wayne Hancock, Deke Dickerson, The Devil Dogs, G n R, Hank Thompson, The Hives, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joan Jett, T Rex, Johnny Cash, Neko Case, PJ Harvey, The Pretenders, The Ramones, The Replacements, The Sonics, Teddy Morgan

Movies:

Last Movie Watched: Once Upon a Time in China

Television:

Six Feet Under, The Amazing Race, geeky science shows, MotoGP racing, bad reality TV

Books:

Current read: River of Doubt

Heroes:

Joan Jett, Katja Peonsgen, Gerhard Richter, Suzy Quatro, Penelope Houston, John Coletrain, Ghandi

My Blog

India

I'm working on writing a full blog of my recent trip to India, but in the meantime here's a few of my favorite photographs from the trip:     The Taj Mahal. Wild Bengal Tiger, viewed from ...
Posted by Ellen on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:00:00 PST

M2M

When I first fell in love with motorcycling I was living in Chicago. I'd purchased a decrepit 60's Honda in pieces and managed to limp it down to the only place in town crazy enough to work on such a ...
Posted by Ellen on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:49:00 PST

My Weekend at Team Quest

I had been making jokes about it for weeks. Telling my friends that I'd signed up for a weekend workshop at Team Quest, the premiere training center for professional mixed martial artists, and that it...
Posted by Ellen on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:24:00 PST

Cambodia

It's not finished yet, but you can view my travel journal for my trip to Cambodia here as I complete it.
Posted by Ellen on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:26:00 PST

Africa

A few months ago, I went to Africa. Gorillas, guerillas, white water rafting the Nile, lions, hyenas, motorcycles, quad bikes, orphans and men with big spears....
Posted by Ellen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST