There and back again: A Cross-continental Dating Service

Towards the end of her first season at Bryce, Kate was offered a job to stay and work as a field technician and travel all over the country to document night sky quality. Hau was offered a job in the Florida Keys for the winter. Hau was offered the job only a week before he had to be in Key West for training. So he had to leave real quick.

Thus began two years of exciting and tumultuous times. Some of the highlights of these times are as follows:

Kate visits many National Parks, climbs to the high points within, and takes pictures of stars. Here she is measuring wind speed before starting the camera.

Hau approaches thickets of invasive trees with a handsaw. Shown here is a Brazilian Pepper tree, which can give a person a mighty rash.

Kate sees lots of snow fall at Bryce in the winter. This is the view from her bedroom window.

Hau plays beach volleyball... in December.

Hau returns to Utah and works at Bryce with Kate in summer 2007. He works at removing invasive species from the park. Here he is eating a weed and carrying all his equipment.

Some of Kate's family came to visit at Bryce that summer.

Hau and Kate bought a house in Teasdale!

Hau returns to Florida in Fall 2007 to control more weeds. He also enjoys some nice weather. Here he is swimming in the Caribbean.

Kate spends a lot of time turning
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with a snow shovel.

Hau shakes his fist at feral Key West chickens.

Kate moves to Fort Collins, CO for her job, where she spends a few months working. She also rode her bike in the Tour de Fat!

Hau moves into the house in Teasdale and goes back to working at Capitol Reef National Park. Kate traverses the Rockies to come home whenever she can for a few days and they hike together.

They meet up in Moab while Kate has a few days off from field work she is doing there. They hike in Canyonlands National Park.










Soon after the Moab meetup, Hau is offered a permanent, year-round job managing a new field station set in Capitol Reef National Park and working for the university that runs it. Kate decides to resign her job in Ft. Collins to move back. In November 2008, she does just that. Hau and Kate are living in the same place for the first time!