The day started off as has been the case for the past week here in Houston. I rolled off the couch and looked around to get my bearings. Peaked out through the window to see yet another sunny day, light clouds and a vivid blue Texas sky. A slightly slow start, post-boozey night, before I […]
Archive for May, 2009
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I think I’ve died and gone to Texas.
“You might give some serious thought to thanking your lucky stars you’re in Texas” is painted across the siding of a ‘Texas Bar-B-Q’ joint. After aimlessly wandering around Houston, eventually I found my bearings and returned to my Couch Surfing (CS) hosts apartment after walking, once again to the museum district and around Rice university. […]
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Nutritional Deficiency and a swooping State Bird.
Well, I made it down to Houston, if not a little worse for wear. What wasn’t mentioned in my last update was that I had a pretty big dizzy spell as I waited for a connecting flight in Salt Lake City, Utah. Later on I touched down in Texas and was greeted and picked up […]
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Departure point. A non-refundable ticket to a place less traveled.
This morning I truly began the upcoming adventure. Committed beyond a point of return, boarding a flight, Houston bound! A short stop-over in Salt Lake City, Utah and back in the air once more. As it comes closer to ‘connecting’ with “Mavis” the Hell bike, excitement, fear and a whole swag of other emotions swirl […]
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Bridge.
Rocking side to side, Anticipating the ride. Suit of armor purchased, Buffed on all sides. Pedal. Pedal. Pedal. Pushing into wind. Face turns RED, Scorched by the Sun. Enter from one end, Across span. Glide. Look over, see one. Single seal swishes about waves below. Eagle circles off one side, Disappearing. Fog forms. Swirling. Rumbling. […]
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Fax-to-email testing and a sweet as leather jacket.
Ok, so the “Fax-to-email” is kind of working. Just need to iron out some little kinks, i.e the service I’m trilling only sends .TIFF attachments to my email address, but my website will only accept .JPG for upload. Technical dilemmas of being oh so Lo-Fi. In other news, Frisco is pretty amazing and […]
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San Francisco heartbeat and an alien typewriter.
Flying into San Francisco bay and seeing the Golden Gate bridge majestically spanned between two land masses, really brought home the fact that this trip is not just an idea sitting inside my head. But rather, I’m in this and this is happening now! When the bridge was revealed in the frame of the airplane […]