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Written by Daniel Hienzsch
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Friday, 16 January 2009 |
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Page 1 of 3 2008 certainly was a momentous year with big changes in my personal life, from moving into my own apartment for the first time in 6 years, to life changing trips in Montana and Egypt. Will's 12 Months in Photos
entry over at CyclingChallenge
was such a good idea, that I decided to shamelessly steal it. Here, then, is the year of 2008 in photos from Dan's life. (ed. note: at some point over the intervening year, the photos got deleted from the server. I've added them again and everything seems to be in order.)
January
 Midtown Manhattan
I stayed in a fantastic hotel there, the Roger Smith; it's a funky little place with a lot of art on the walls and pretty decent sized rooms (especially for Manhattan). I spent more than a few evenings having a a couple glasses of excellent wine in the bar while reading the paper, listening to the White Stripes and waiting for friends that work in investment banking to get off work at 10PM.
New York is a great place to visit, although I have to admit that living there is probably a game for younger men than I at this point. Maybe it's not so much the city as it is the coast. I'm a California coast boy, and I don't think I'll ever get that out of my system.
February New Interior
I spent a lot of time painting the place and re-re-re-constructing the stuff I have from Ikea so that the interior is definately MINE and not just standard landlord stuff. Red walls, violet, lemon yellow... shelves, cabinets, photos, paintings. I tried very, very hard to make sure the place felt like home instead of just looking like a place I spend my nights at.
March - AprilThere were no photos in March or April. They were a pair of very hard months. I spent a lot of my spare funds moving in February so I didn't really have money to go play with. I was also getting used to live on my own again which had it's obvious ups and downs emotionally. I spent a LOT of time working on the inside of my apartment to keep myself occupied, and tried to figure out what to do once I didn't have anything left to do.
Fortunately, for all of April and May, I became hip deep in an email archive project that had me working 12 hour days, seven days a week. On one particular Saturday afternoon in April, I was sitting in a bar having lunch while an archive job was running and for whatever reason, I got the crazy idea in my head of riding my motorcycle all the way to Yellowstone. I literally laughed outloud at myself sitting there at the bar, but I still grabbed a pen and a napkin and traced out the general ideas of what would become the 2008 Summer Grand Tour.
May Transition Stage in the Giro
However, every stage of every race, isn't Paris-Roubaix or Alpe d'Huez. There are flat, transitional stages that have a pretty exciting last 5 minutes, but a pretty excrutiatingly boring 2 preceding hours... you know, sort of like football and basketball. Stage 9 on May 18th of the 2008 Giro was just such a stage, and all the coffee in the world wasn't enough to keep me up and running to watch a flat stage at 6AM.
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