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November First

it was a friend reunion for zach's coming home to indianapolis. there is no better place to be than in the presence of those we love as the leaves are changing beautiful colors (i bet you don't see that in california). here are some of the best flicks from the disposable steve and i shared:


the moontower and two of the best.


alida is a nanny at a very beautiful house.


bob the goon at his prime. four year old grandmother.


frank steals everyone's thunder.


what a sweet halloween family portrait.


scary? cute?


adelaide the maseusse makes her debut.


partied out phil.

Hello from Gina's couch. Currently listening to Gina and Dave Boss placing bets on who will win the Dallas/Denver football game. Kooks.

It's finally cooled off in our part of the country...jacket weather is here! We had handlebar brunch today (sorry Tubbs and Ztown) and it was perfect. Last night consisted of Apples to Apples and Iron Chef and the Boss Man killed it every time.

Now that Autumn is here we have begun talk of our next travels, with San Fransisco at the top of the list. Though home is what grounds us, it's seeing what's on the road that keeps our youth from burning up. Every time this season rolls around, I'm hit wit a wave of nostalgia...remembering what it felt like to grow into my own skin. It's comforting the way that happiness now sometimes comes in the form of quietness, or a phone call from a friend whose life is unparalleled with mine aside from the feelings we've shared or still do. State lines being the only thing that truly divide us.

(Nate, right now everyone is talking about how cool you are and you are saying "I don't get why I'm so odd...I'm just me!" So funny and awesome.)

Anyways, all is well, laughter all around. I hope you all go to pumpkin patches soon.

Love,
A

things i really like today, color excluded

lazy, i love thou/thee/thy. i wish we were on the road. with the company of these friends...

Laide here, updating with photos at last. Sadly, the Walgreens lady tore my negatives in half and a lot of my pictures got destroyed, all from the end of the trip.



View of a street in New Orleans, complete with horse carriages and deep South greenery.



Self timed, with the camera poised underneath a cannon statue.



A boat called the Natchez!! We sat in this spot for about an hour taking photos and talking about the mysteries of the city.



...proof



A shot of the hotel/shops by the waterfront.



I don't know if it's my skillz or the subjects but this one is great.



N'awlins is filled with shops that house everything from hot sauce to alligator heads to shot glasses to voodoo dolls to skeleton figurines...you name it.



Street corner advice is free...



life partner.



"I hate these stupid self-timer photos."
"Fine, don't be in this one."
"Yeah right!!!! I'm in the middle!"



Fun house mirror in a bathroom off the Natchez.



When grassy fields begin to submerge into swamps.



I just wanted to get my fortune told.



Cafe Bamboo. Those two suckers went back for breakfast the next day.

I only have time for a photo update...more to come soon...I miss the road but appreciate the midwest, especially as summer begins to fade into the best season of all...

hope on the horizon.

love,
a

where is everyone? where am i?

after roaming for two weeks my body is left restless, just like the letters scripted across his knuckles. get me out of H E R E. oh wait, the exclamation key doesn't work. my other half is two hundred miles from my heart. can we rekindle and drift again? we'll get some coffee and breakfast at fido, swim under the blistering texan sun, spend dinnertime with tula and sean after stopping at dino world/olde general store, and end the night at the moontower? if we close our eyes tight enough and think about it hard enough maybe we can gallivant away from the sunless, gray city and into our dreams holding hands. i'll meet ya there, and when we get home i'll have dinner ready and the blender waiting to make some daquiries.

she says, "we were all once tumble weeds knotted inside our own bodies rolling, if not in circles, across a seeming infinity..."

JUST WATCH IT. W...A...R...M...

where are the rhinos?

after an eighteen hour trip back home, we made it safely 3000 miles through the south and back to the midwest. i am sitting comfortably in my bed, alone, as the other two are doing who knows what. the cool chicago breeze is such a luxury after the southern heat turned us all into zombies. our time spent with erica, marlon, brian, and co. venturing to swim spots was a texan dream come true!

finding oureslves on the 65S that has been much traveled before, adelaide and i ventured in the rain to return her to indianapolis. luckily, steve's atlas that was our guide through the trip was still in the car, so i was able to navigate my way by side roads around the traffic that had blockaded my route back to chicago. the long, solo ride home through cornfields was very strange without my companions.

photos from my 35mm have been developed, and here are a few of the favorites...


outside of the olde general store along the 65S to nashville. probably one of our favorite legs of the ride.


steve, mickey, and adelaide enjoying this view:


at the burgess state park in tennessee...


seriously, this is in the united states! our first swim spot (thanks to jonny corndawg).


a self timed photo of us in the forest of the natchez trace parkway en route to the deep south. it was kind of like a fantasy driving through these parts.


along bourbon street


with the french quarters behind us


our second swim spot. the gulf of mexico along the southern coast of texas. not much of a pretty sight, but a nice break from driving ten hours in humidity and passing through oil rig after oil rig.


our third swim spot. the colorado river in austin. the tide that carried erica, randy, brian, and co. for six hours one day almost took adelaide and i for an unpleasant ride. despite the rough swim through the middle, floating above the turtles in the company of friends was a treat.


what a great sight. being with erica, floaties, and a body of water... ahhhhhhh, the life.


our fifth swim spot (fourth swim spot not pictured). hamilton pool, somewhere in the desert of texas. we have never been to a place like this!

for more flicks, check it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30433867@N02/

waiting patiently to see adelaide's photos,
<3
g (missing a & s)

ABC's of the drift.

A: apples to apples
B: barton springs, bouldin creek X 4
C: crosby the cat, cowabunga babes, cafe bamboo, cheap chinese, coffee, coffee, coffee
D: daquiries
E: elizabethtown, erica
F: fawbushes, fido
G: gas stations
H: humidity, hellish heat, hunger, hillbillies, harrah's casino
I: indianapolis, indian novelties
J: jackson
K: killing ourselves
L: louisville, late nights, lone star beer
M: mickey, marlon, mississippi
N: natchez trail, n'awlins, nashville
O: o'keefe hotel, overheating
P: pin/pen pronunciation, po' boys at cafe bamboo
Q: QUIT TALKING IN SPANISH STEVE, IT'S 7 AM AND WE'RE ALL DELIRIOUS
R: robertson's, robbery, RHINOS
S: scooting, sweating, swimming, swimming, swimming, samo the pup
T: tula, texas (sucks), toy joy's vegan soft serve, technologyiscrazy, taco hell
U: u turns
V: vegan forever
W: "where are we", "why???" - Tula Fawbush
X: xena warrior princess
Y: Yippie! "Revolution for the Hell of it"
Z: zach's directions, zach forever

these rhinos are really, really hott

hello from the south!
our first photo update via free film for life photos and adelaide phone photos!


austin is wonderful. whether it be from the company that we have shared or the happenings of the city, our time spent here has been a blast. within the past three days we have swam in the gulf of mexico, the colorado river, and a few natural springs. we have floated on floaties, almost been carried away by the tides, and may or may not have poison ivy.


life at the moontower, indianapolis.
www.welcometothemoontower.com
blow it up!


the best photo i have ever taken. arriving at the fawbush's in louisville, tula showed and telled us some of her newest birthday presents and toys.




these gems were found somewhere off of 65S headed to nashville. some of the best spots in the USA.


also along the 65S was an antique mart we could have spent the whole two weeks at. this lovely couple commented on our tattoos and shared theirs with us. the work on the man's arm was done with stick and poke by a monk in thailand who also tattooed angelina jolie. there was cobra blood in the ink!!!


i always said if i was gonna go to bars they would have to be country western bars, and holy cow nashville housed the best!


our first swim spot of the trip. this cell phone photo does not do the waterfall or the beauty of this landmark in tennessee any justice.


killing time in n'awlins before 6 a.m. check in found us at the harah's casino. what a trip.


and the first photo up there is in front of the gulf of mexico at the south of texas after almost 11 hours in the car.


just a day or so left of austin. more photos to be developed upon being home, and more adventures to be had along the way.

much love, always,

a&g