A great way to start the day

My new morning routine is one that I am digging more and more everyday. For basically the past year I have spent the first several hours of my day with Rachel at Fair Bean Coffee. I still go with her to open in the morning, but I have to leave by 6:50 in order to have time to bike to the MetroRail on time for the train ride up north. I miss being able to be around her so much in the morning, but I think it is going to be good for us because a lot of the time we can't interact a whole lot after it starts getting busy and that can just lead to frustration for both of us. So this gives us some really good quality time in the first 45 or 5o minutes. It also allows me to have about an hour of time when I get to the Domain to read or catch up on something that I need to do on the computer before I go in to work. And the short bike rides I have to take before and after the train ride are amazing. I get to bike over town lake on S Congress birdge during the sunrise and I get to exit the train with a small troupe of bikers heading off to work. Definitely a great way to start the day.

Getting the itch...to CAMP!

The weather is changing and Rachel and I just sat around with a few of our roommates and shared stories, photos and videos of our past camping/backpacking experiences and now I am super inspired to go right now! Hopefully a trip can happen by the end of October!

Public Transportation is the best

We are very fortunate to have good and still progressing public transportation in Austin. Sharing one car and working in far different areas of town is all made possible by the combination of bikes, 1 car, car2go, buses and the MetroRail. From what I have been told and from what Ive experienced a little myself Austin still has a ways to go before it has as good public transportaion as other cities such as San Francisco, New York, Chicago, etc.. but Im grateful for what we have and for the direction the city is going.

To Us

Very excited about this weekend. Rachel and I are going to our first Marriage Conference titled "Intimate Mysteries". We are excited for several reasons, first and most obvious is the chance for us to focus on our relationship and marriage on a deeper level in ways that I am sure are going to be challenging. Also the guy leading the conference is the former president and co-founder of Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, where I hope to be attending either next fall or the fall after next. I hope that we will gain some great insight that we will be able to share with others!