Today was St. Louis. We started off at the Riverfront, specifically the stairs that lead from the Gateway Arch down to the Mississippi, which is one of my favoritest places in the world. I'm not sure why i love it so, but that chunk of land totally satisfies, like, all of my needs: a)water and boats b)large field c)crazy feat of human ingenuity. We ( Read more... )

Hello from (just outside of) St. Louis! starlingthefool and i've just finished day 2 of the BGRT2 and we're holed up in the first hotel we came to that didn't look skeezy. Hooray!

Yesterday i got a couple hours' sleep after work and then we rolled out around 3:30, once the snow stopped. We got trolled by the town of Mt. Horeb, which was kind of weird, had our ( Read more... )

So, the Big Gay Road Trip comes to a close. It's bittersweet; i'm sad it's over, but happy to be home (especially with Frank the cat sleeping on my chest, and my own bed to look forward to soon). Still, it was a hell of a lot of fun.

Sometime Sunday night, while we were hanging out in St Ignace, i showed starlingthefool the Hey Girl video, which meant that we ( Read more... )

(Gandalf just thwopped Denethor in the head with his staff, hence the subject line.)

BIG GAY ROAD TRIP!

Day 2 continued in the theme of being Fabulous and Awesome. starlingthefool and i started the day off by crawling out of bed for free hotel breakfast, then (at least i) went back to bed for another hour's sleep; all that sleep deprivation certainly caught up ( Read more... )

starlingthefool and i are holed up in a hotel in Manastique, in the Upper Peninsula, right on the north shore of Lake Michigan. And when i say right on, i mean right on; we could hear waves when we unloaded the car, and had we been any more awake (or had it not been so chilly) we would have wandered across the highway to check out the lake. As it is, we've got a ( Read more... )