I reluctantly left Gib and Ben behind to head to Las Crucis, but decided since I was as close as I was, I would head to Tombstone, home of the gunfight at the OK Corral and the historic Boothill Graveyard. The historic downtown area was about as expected - extremely touristy, but I enjoyed strolling around on a relatively uncrowded Monday as there ( Read more... )

I reluctantly left Tucson after two wonderful days. If Harley and Lee had not been leaving  the day after I did for their vacation in Montana, I would have stayed longer. However, I hit the road early for Tucson where I planned to visit with my long-time Dallas friend Gib (a fellow Aggie and singing cadet Neil) and his partner Ben. More on them ( Read more... )

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School is a killer this week and I hope I am not lugging books along with my laptop when I head to the Pacific NW next week for spring break. I would rather use my time visiting with friends and getting some photography in, but if I have to work on Municipal GIS projects then so be it. I must have been out of my mind taking this many GIS classes in ( Read more... )

But I really like this one...

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Yep, I am making my first trip ever to Northern CA and the City by the Bay. Thanks to a big assist from rootbeer1 (thanks SO much Steve) I will be flying to SFO on Thursday the 10th and staying until Monday evening the 14th. So, any of you peeps there like notdefined, mh58 fogbear nd putzmeisterbear, I sure want to have a meet up at some point. I will ( Read more... )

2000 plus miles on the car in one week, two wrecks (deemed my fault) and umpteen friends later I am finally at my parents. Tomorrow I get to see my cousins Greg and Jeff, who I rarely get to see, my best friend from HS Luanne and her mom (favorite school teacher ever), and then make a mega deer meat lasagna for our Christmas Eve dinner. I am not ( Read more... )

Tonight my front grill is residing in my back seat and the bumper cover is being held on by bungee cords. Yes, I have been in another accident thanks to a poorly designed and badly identified intersection. Yes, this one is also deemed my fault. Yes I am truly fucked when the insurance company gets through with me after all this.

Fuckity-doo-dah-day ( Read more... )

Wonderful Indian dinner was definitely a good warm up, but the company made it even better. Company of dewittar andfishfin along with my friend David.

Photographic evidence:


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In Delaware, I have been staying with my friends Nick and Rick. Rick is a native of Baltimore and Nick is one of my long-time Dallas friends. They met over bigmusclebears.com and it went from there. They are one of the most loving (almost sickeningly loving) couples I know and have now been together 10 years and jointly own Rick's Fitness and ( Read more... )

Sophie was a ball of fun last night, totally wound up. As promised, one of the photos I took of her. She has grown tremendously since I saw her this summer and just about knows more Spanish than I do thanks to Dora the Explorer...


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