This is a picture I took along the way as we approached Diamond Peak (the big cone in the background). There were tons of those yellow flowers in bloom starting about halfway down this road. As you can see, the road was dirt/gravel at this point, but towards the end it became dirt/gravel/water because it literally crossed Diamond Creek several times. Fortunately it wasn't very deep so we were able to drive through it, but I would've felt better in an SUV or ATV.
This is what we saw when we got to the end of the road. If you click on the picture, you can better see the Colorado River in the background, which looks muddier, and Diamond Creek joining it in the foreground.
There were some people there on a little beach over to the right of the area in the previous picture. I think they were getting ready to get on some rafts, or maybe returning from a rafting trip. This is Indian-owned land and they run a rafting expedition that leaves from this spot. In fact, they charge you money even if you just drive there to hang out, like we did. There was a woman waiting there to take $16 from each of us as soon as we got there.
This picture is looking back up Diamond Creek, showing where we came from. The creek is on the right side of the picture.
This is a picture B took looking east up the Colorado River. You can see the rafts the Indians own over on the right.
We would've taken a lot more pictures, but the camera batteries died about halfway there. It was a really scenic drive and we hardly saw anyone else until we got to the end. As we were driving back out, we saw several people in SUVs and a couple of tour jeeps driving in. One of the jeep drivers stopped to say hi and he seemed pretty surprised that we were able to make it to the river in our sedan.
From what I read about this place, apparently it's the only spot where you can drive down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. We definitely want to go back there, but maybe not until after we get another vehicle. We're planning to get some kind of SUV for trips like this.
Another thing we did this past weekend was take my computer to be looked at. The good news is, nothing was seriously wrong with it. No viruses, spyware or anything like that. Somehow the registry (I think) got messed up and things were missing, which was making my computer run really slow and get bogged down and eventually just kind of give up trying to run. Plus the guy at the store said it would run a lot better if I freed up some space on my C drive. He was able to fix the registry stuff and I deleted a bunch of things from my C drive and now I'm out $135.
After getting my computer home, it still didn't seem to be working quite right, though. I was still having problems with my internet connection via my wireless adapter because I couldn't connect to the secure network B set up when we first got our DSL established. I couldn't even see that network for some reason, and when I looked at our network specs, it showed that there were three computers connected; mine, B's and one named Scott.
This was really suspicious to us because our next-door neighbor's name is Scott, so B got on the phone with tech support to see if they could tell us what was going on. In a nutshell, we found out that our next-door neighbor was in fact connected to B's computer through the wireless connection and I was connected to the internet through Scott's computer and his network. How crazy is that??
So B and the tech support guy were able to get rid of that highjacked network connection, set up a new one that's password protected, and now I'm online and have been online all day with no problems. Keep your fingers crossed that this will be the end of my computer problems.
When I was finished with work today, I opened up Winamp to listen to some music and noticed that my playlist was blank except for one file called "J at the pool," which is an mpg I made from our home movies several years ago. I was really confused for a second, but then realized that the guy at the computer store must've opened that home movie file. By default, Winamp opened to play it and as a result, created a new playlist with just that one file. Caught ya! Fortunately it was just some video of one of the beach houses we stayed in and me reading by the pool. Nothing incriminating. ^_^
3 comments:
Just wanted to say HEY as I hadn't seen you on TE in a long time. Congrats on moving west. Your pictures are beautiful!
How's your companies going? Are you still working for them?
Colleen my daughter asks about you sometimes ;)and remembers how you like Ayumi Hamasaki (forgive me please if I spelled that wrong) Her latest work is at http://youtube.com/user/animewolffreak
CH is a techy guy and knows lots of other people who are, and yeah, going through customers' pics and movies is a big thing! He was telling me about how someone who worked at one of those places like Compuzone even made a program to search hard drives for folders with names like, "stuff." Because apparently every guy thinks the same way and has a folder they call, "stuff" to keep their porn in. Nice. One guy even posted pictures he found on someone's computer on a forum. I've also heard a lot about unsecured wireless networks being used by people. It's kind of a touchy thing, because sometimes people are doing it very intentionally and with the attitude "they're asking for it for not protecting it" and other times it's people being a bit more harmless or sort of stumbling onto it. Either way, you want it kept protected because there are crooks out there that can do bad things with information they pick up, if they're looking for it.
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