Los Angeles

Another winter spent in Los Angeles, manipulating lots of confusing theoretical lists of numbers in order to maintain my confusing, all-too-real life in China. I may have moaned about being under stimulated but I certainly had some good times. Alan and I got into the hills in LA on impossible rock-face-finding quests and had some good scrambles.
Although I miss snow in the too-sunny LA winters, it was nice to be able to strap on my hiking boots and play. Alan is of course a fantastic hiking companion with a leaning towards the impractical that takes us into interesting corners of Southern California that few other people bother, er, dare to go.


And there were, of course, the holidays. We have had the added fun the last few years of splitting time between the two parental units, an honored American tradition that our family has just recently started taking part in. Truth be told, it's not so bad, just significantly quieter than it used to be. The guy next to me in the picture is my brother, Nathan.