Every free day I get here in Colorado seems to be spent outside.  Just finished my first so called Fourteener when we hiked up Mount Princeton .   It was tiring but definitely rewarding.

I went to Boulder, Colorado for the first time today and did some rock climbing at El Dorado.  Beautiful scenery and beautiful climbing.  While in Boulder, I found out that Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls are playing in October.  Maybe I’ll check it out to relive some Rock am Ring memories.

This week I’ll be taking a trip back to city life as I go to visit New York City to go see U2 in concert at Madison Square Garden.  Certainly looking forward to it.  I’m also going to attend a taping of the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

It’ll be good to back to NYC since I haven’t been there since I finished my initial med school rotations back in 2009.  Moreover, I’m happy I get to enjoy it as a traveling visitor this time around.

Had an awesome 4th of July hiking, camping, and climbing rocks,rocks, and more rocks.  Gonna’ end this nice long weekend with some local traveling around Colorado.

I know there has been a lot of really terrible things happening in the last few weeks in the U.S., but I’m happy that gay marriage got officially recognized by our Supreme Court. Granted, I don’t think marriage (hetero-, homo-, bi-, whatever) should be regulated at all by government authority, but I am happy for all of my gay friends and happy that they have the same rights we all do. It was a long time coming.

Hard to believe I was rocking out in Germany a month ago and that I’ll be adventuring in New York City in a few weeks.

Oh, and I love banana bread and coffee.