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January 25, 2005 10:58 PMScottsdale, AZHello. Today, I crossed three states (somewhat). I woke up in El Paso, TX, drove through all of southern New Mexico, and then up to see my Uncle in Scottsdale AZ, where I am now. I ran only Petro diesel today, but will get more B100 tomorrow after I go to Taliesin. I really do love New Mexico: it is quite beautiful, and vast. There's nothing else on earth quite like the pink and blue of the sky as the mountains reach up to touch the far-away clouds, which surely hold heaven beneath them. Today, as I drove into Tuscon, Arizona, I thought of my grandfather who is long gone from this earth. He was a car dealer for decades in the midwest. I bought my (German) car on what would have been his 100th birthday, and thought of him then too. I visited him and grandma Dorothy every Christmas in Tuscon, it becoming like a second home to me over the years. I'm sure he was smiling with me as I put all the windows down (sunroof too!), cranked Modest Mouse (thanks for the CD elly!), and watched all the familiar street names fly by me. Many of my learning-to-drive memories are with him, in Tuscon. The lanes are so much wider, and I was always the official family chauffeur, even from age 15. He used to love it when I drove him places. Now, I understand that there was much more to that emotion than I ever would know. I miss him often, and love him dearly.
January 24, 2005 10:26 PMmore AustinI spent an extra day in Austin, because it is great, and because I wanted to spend more time with Joanna, Coan & Jen. It was a good decision. Coan got sucked into work things, so Joanna took me out drinking to Showdown, where I was regaled with stories of Brian drunkenly meeting her, and their escapades. We also played a lot of darts, and at the end of 3 pitchers of Lone Star, there is the possibility that I gave a wooden indian a hand job.
January 23, 2005 04:53 PMfun in austinHi. I'll update more on the last few days driving, but first, here's a picture of me in Austin, TX with my college roommate, Coan. We're at the Spider House, eating girlscout cookies and generally getting caffeinated!
January 22, 2005 10:10 PMAustin, TXHi. It's only about 400 miles from Oklahoma City to Austin, and after a late night of drinking at random dive bars, I got off to a late start. Steve & Greg took me to "Juniors," a bar which can best be described as a Geriatric/Hipster Piano smoking lounge. The cheese factor was so high, it can be described as off the hook. Before going low class, we went high class to Nick's, which is one of those rotating-floor-at-the-top-of-a-building thingers. The view was awesome; I expect that during storm season, there's nothing better! The white man's overbite was in full effect on that dancefloor. Today, I only listenened to music, including CDs with awesome, lovingly inscribed descriptions from elly. Tuggy's CD with the Auggie March track on it was played many times. Soon, I will share the mp3 of it with you all, because it is awesome. Coan & Jen welcomed me into their house, which has had a LOT of improvements, and painting and nice things done to it since I last saw them here like THREE YEARS AGO. We went for tasty mexican with their pals, and sat outside in the DAMN COLD, but I had my bunny hat on, so it was all fun.
January 21, 2005 09:24 PMOklahoma City, OKA second day of gloomy morning driving, and then into clear setting sunsets: from Columbia, MO to Oklahoma, OK. I like driving. Another about 550 miles. I listened to the audiobook rendition of "The DaVinci Code" it was really quite entertaining, if not well written. Today was my first tank of Biodiesel on my grand adventure!
January 20, 2005 07:49 PMColumbia, MOToday, I drove 500 miles out from the snow, through some gloomyness, and then into a beautiful sunset, and to a nice college town. I used my first tank of diesel, and got 38 miles/gallon. I'm pretty damned excited about that. I'm currently drinking a beer in a cute college coffeeshop, listening to some 6 piece band, relaxing, and excited about road tripping. I made serious progress today, and that's positive. I'm looking forward to seeing friends in Oklahoma City tomorrow, and then on into Texas, and parts farther West. I miss being with elly: she's a great passenger and right hand girl. Its also nice to be alone, but doing something. I've spent a lot of time in the last few months being alone and not acutally focusing on self: just constant distractions. On the road, it's different. I can see things clearly. I can think about what matters, and what is superfluous crap that I'm obsessing about without need, or cause. I'm having fun in my new car. Every thing that happens is a new excitment in and of itself. First night drive! First 100 miles! (still in Chicago) First tape! (the DaVinci Code audiobook) First CD! (Talking Heads Stop Making Sense) Good stuff.
January 20, 2005 08:40 AMChicago, ILIt snowed last night! My new car is covered in white stuff!! hehehehe Today, I will start a roadtrip!
January 19, 2005 05:38 PMmy new car!Today, after an 8 hour flight mishap from SFO->ORD, My mom drove me to Evanston from their house in Chicago, and I bought my first new car. I am really excited, quite pleased, and alltogether grinning. Here it is:
Also available are pictures of my first radio station, and where my ass goes. Whee! soon, I will drive the happy diesel all over this fine land! January 17, 2005 11:17 PMroad trip: southern routemaybe I'll take the southern route, and visit Coan in Austin, Steve/Greg in Oklahoma, The Boyds in ABQ, Bret/Alona in Long Beach. Who knows. If you know of any biodiesel locations (or decent vegetarian food, or friendly faces!) along this route, PLEASE email me, and I'll stop in to see the people.
Service and Supply Cooperative Hampel Oil Austin Biofuels LLC Ever-Ready Oil Company Western States Petroleum, Inc Ventura Harbor Marine Fuel, Inc. Pacific Biofuel January 15, 2005 11:35 AMtotally surprisedI had a surprise 30th birthday party, in was a blast, and I was totally suckered/suprised. I mean, it was the classic setup. elly told me over & over that nothing was going on, she took me to a really nice romantic dinner at the best vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco. We then suddenly had to get home, for a plausable reason, and behold, candles and people to shout surprise! Thanks. Thanks to everyone who showed up. Thanks to all the people that responded to elly's email with nice things (sometime in Haiku!) to say about me. Thanks for honoring me with your thoughts. Everyone is awesome. Thanks most of all to my lovely miss elly for making it all happen, and keeping a straight face. I don't know how you did it, but you were amazing. My day was really nice, even before the great party. There was sunshine in San Francisco, which was really the best thing Mother Nature could have possibly delivered for me! elly got up with me and we went to my favorite Noe Valley brunch to eat tasty things. I wandered the city, meeting nice people, managing resources, riding classic street cars (F-Market!), talking to nice friends in Niagra Falls, and parents at the right time on cell phones! I shopped, I bought a snazzy new shirt and I hung out in Union Square. It was quite peaceful. THEN, when we called for a cab to go to Millenium, we got one of those snazy London Cabs that Luxor is driving around these days. It was aweseome! Drinks and foods were so yummy when we got there. I could wax poetic for days, and likely will, but I'll spare you all. :) I'm pretty darned pleased. 30 ain't so bad after all.
January 14, 2005 10:46 AM30Hi. I'm 30 now. January 09, 2005 06:46 PMroad trip planningSo, I bought a car. It is in Chicago, and I need to get it to California. I am buying said car so that I can run Biodiesel in it. (Curious about biodiesel? Ask me about it!) The catch is that Biodiesel is currently not very widely used. The majority of distributors service farmers and fleets of cars, not individuals (eg: there's not a neighborhood gas station!). Since I love to make things harder than they have to be, I thought I would chart my route out from one Biodiesel station to another! The National Biodiesel Board keeps a list of retailers! If you know of more, please tell me and them!!
Start off by fueling up basically in Chicago, 30miles from home:
Or, go about 137 miles west to:
This is 75 miles west of Madison, WI, which is a bit out of the way, but ...
or 52Miles North of 90 to Northfield, MN:
or maybe go 28M north of the 90 to Slayton, MN: (550M from Chicago)
January 08, 2005 08:17 PMpink houseelly & I have fun giving directions to friends coming to visit. "Look for the pink lights in the window!" The house is filled with people now, making niceness.
January 06, 2005 05:03 PMnew car!I just bought this. I'll go to Chicago soon to get it :) BioDiesel here I come!! I can't wait to drive the lovely miss elly all around California is this fine vehicle :)
whooo! January 04, 2005 02:36 PM"I'll be there"The sweetest words in the english language. After a 4.5 hour flight delay in NYC, my total travel time getting from Vieques home was 25 hours. Really quite an ordeal. I would like to explain:
Then it all gets interresting. I had planned to rent a car in San Jose to drive home to SF, but since we were so delayed, I arrived post-rental-counter-closing-time, and was shit out of luck. Thank goodness for oofiepoo. He brought his borrowed Range Rover all the fucking way down the peninsula to pick my ass up at 2:30 in the morning, and drove me home, all the while supplying me with excellent pizza for snacking and enjoying my delirious laughter. Good stuff. We all went to bed just after 4:20. I'm so glad Brian came to get me. |
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