Looking at Mount Hood from our chateau this morning…
And later today we are headed across the Columbia River into Washington State to visit Mount Saint Helens.
Will try to post some pics when I get back home 🙂
Oh yeah, we saw a marijuana store in Portland yesterday! This place out-weirds even Asheville… but Oregon has still gotta be one of the most beautiful places that I’ve ever visited 🙂
And oh yeah, here is Kristen and I at Multnomah Falls!
“Dear Lord, am I really doing this?!” A Few Good Men. Red eye over England. Bennie and her mom. Mayhem in the marketplace. The brothers. Lots of wine. The village countryside. The pissing statue. The dark hospital. The odd pizza. “Coke is better than beer!” The American compatriots. A prophecy fulfilled. The peculiar picnic. A strange place to celebrate the Fourth of July. The haunted ruins. The jibber-jabbering Belgian lady. Helping the three Russian students. A kiss on the hand for a real queen. “Le stupid American!” The Piano. Andre’s crazy cop cousin. The towering fortress on the river. The blood of Jesus Christ. Real magic. Cows at 150 miles per hour. The Eiffel Tower. The Bosnian refugees. The dead body in the alley. The Maquisard. The hunt for the Hard Rock Cafe. The singing drunk Frenchman. The four Dutch lasses. The unicycling saxaphonist. The Canadian Richard Petty ...
I’m gonna go ahead and knock the rest of this thing out of the ballpark, ‘cuz the next few days are going to be crazy busy and I’ve put off doing this long enough. So here’s the rest of the photos from Texas (here’s Part 1 and here’s Part 2).
One of the things that I’d wanted to do while I was in Texas was visit my brother-in-law Jonathan, who’s a seminary student at Baylor University in Waco. On Friday, the day after I went to the Alamo, Deborah and I hopped in my rented Jeep and took off for Austin, where we’d catch I-35 north.
Here’s Austin as we were entering town…
Here’s Deborah. The last time we’d seen each other, it was at Star Wars Celebration III in Indianapolis two and a half years earlier.
This was taken while we were on Congressional Avenue, with the ...
Here are more photos from my Texas adventure. When we left off at Part 1, I’d arrived at my friend Deborah’s house in Texas. The next morning, before anyone else had woken up, I went out for a walk around her house.
Here’s Deborah’s backyard. As I told her when I got there, “You could throw a dead body back there and nobody would ever find it.” Also fun to keep in mind that this is Travis County, which was the setting of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Just think: somewhere in those hills, Leatherface could yet be lurking with his trusty Stihl…
Some road I found, that goes… Lord knows where.
Here’s a shot of Deborah’s house from the backyard. That’s Deborah’s sister’s dog Sophie who’s bouncing across the grass…
Here’s the scene from Deborah’s front porch…
And some of her front yard (the pics can’t do any ...
Here they are finally: photos from the trip to Texas that I made earlier this month. Took awhile to get around to posting these ‘cuz there were so many (over 380) across a six-day period, and I’ve been extremely busy since getting back. Obviously this isn’t all of the pics, but they’ll give you a gist of what went down there (except for during Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9 itself because cameras weren’t allowed in there). And because there are so many (and also ‘cuz it’s a bit late) I’m going to break these down into two parts. The second installment of pics, I’m gonna try to have up later on Saturday night. Anyhoo, here’s the first batch of photos from my odyssey to Texas!
I flew out of Raleigh-Durham on the morning of December 5th, en route to Orlando and then the plane would go on to Houston. On the south-bound flight ...
Still can’t get the pics to load at the moment (our digital camera is more used to hooking up to a Windows XP machine and it’s nothin’ but Macs here) but I’ll be showing the cream of the crop from the bunch when I get back. In the meantime, I can report that it was another action-packed day here in Texas…
My friend Deborah and I got in my rented Jeep about 10 this morning and headed to Austin. She got us on Congressional Avenue and I got some awesome photos of the Texas State Capitol. Then we headed over to the University of Texas at Austin campus, and Deborah got a pic of me standing in front of “The Tower”. And yes, this is the building from which Charles Whitman shot and killed all those people. Which isn’t really why I wanted to see it: it’s always struck ...
I arrived in Texas just after noon local time yesterday, flying in to the airport in Houston. On the flight from Orlando I saw the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in my life, New Orleans (got good pics of the French Quarter and the causeway across Lake Pontchartrain), offshore oil rigs, Johnson Space Center and the Astrodome, and then touched down in Houston. Waited there ’til 1:30 and took off for Austin. The girl at the car rental place recognized me from when my school board commercial ran on E!’s The Soup a few weeks ago!
The car rental people said that they didn’t have too much to choose from at the moment. I said “Give me the most Texas-ish thing you got.” The girl said “You want the big white Jeep.” So that’s what I’m driving.
I’m staying with friends in Travis County. If I’m not mistaken, ...
Hee-hee-hee… not bad eh? I didn’t have much time to do a perfect job on it, but ever since I found out that I’m going to the Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival in Austin, Texas this year, I’ve had it in mind to do a spoof of Preacher: Gone to Texas (a really good graphic novel that I discovered some years ago). Just ‘cuz it sounds cool to say “gone to Texas” like that, and this’ll be my first time ever going there.
I’m not staying in some swanky hotel in Austin, either. I’ll be staying with some friends who live outside of town, in an area notorious for scorpion infestations and whatnot. They tell me that I’m going to love Texas barbecue… which is not pork at all but beef. “Porkless barbecue ribs” ummm sounds like blasphemy to me. But you know, “when in Rome…”
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