Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Monday, October 17, 2005
the saga continues......
on our way we stopped for a tinkle and a stretch. not very restfull though, with that sign warning you .......
We all know Roswell, don't we?
it's where the aliens have landed. or, where there was a UFO crash followed by lots of fake looking alien disection pictures. all of that made us believe we really wanted to go there, what with all the alien things we hoped to find. Well, Walmart had a UFO sign stuck to it's shop front, and some of the streetlights were made into alien heads. the scariest part was when for some reasonb the road we were on had mysteriously disappeared, and the one we were now following took us to a deserted air field, curiously lacking a round landing strip for UFO's. it was scarily quiet, so we truned around and found some tiny little sign telling us where to turn back on the road we were looking for. Hurray for GPS!!!
oh well, we survived without being experimented on, so on we drove. to where i do not remember, i need the map which is not where the Arizona map is.... so i'll continue this later....
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
so it's been a while
but nothing much has happened in between. well, i say nothing much, plenty, of course just not that much worth mentioning. but i guess you are all eagerly awaiting news from this side of the globe, and i'm happy to accommodate you with the latest from smalltown, USA.
the last post (no not the commemorative musical piece) was about the petrified forrest, wasn't it? so this one will include the much more impressive Carlsbad Caverns.
After we left the forrest, we drove to Santa Fe. we go there when it was already dark, and again we just kept going up. and up and up. and then up some more. apparently the south is built on about 7000ft (a little over 2km) of what i suppose to be rock or solid ground. that doesn't really matter, but my ears kept popping. after 5 days that kind of gets to you, in a bad way. Anyway, i had my first all american Walmart experience in Santa Fe. and right after that, i had my very first Sonic Banana Milkshake. woah! it has real banananana in it, and not just a hint of banananana flavour! it's awesome!the next day i got that little spot of good news concerning my graduation. called mom and dad, who were celebrating with chinese. so i bought myself 2 cheapass bracelets (but i like em, christal and jade) at Jackalope, one of the bazaar like shopping things. it's fun as long as you know how to keep you money hidden.
after that we hit downtown, which is as much unlike any other US downtown you will ever find. It's all adobe buildings, and nothing really goes over 3 stories high. that goes for the rest of Santa Fe as far as i could see it. it was incredibly warm, and we visited toe Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which, of course, was tiny but it had a nice collection of flowers on display. after that, my first 'mexican' food. it was hot, but not nearly as hot as Heidi's cooking. and it had a lot of beans in it. yuck. they seem to be big on that here. beans. refried too, which means they fry them somewhere, mash em up at that same place, put it in a can, which at home you open up, put in a pan and warm up again. ew. anyway, Santa Fe. i cannot stop making that rhyme, sorry, i'll try not to do that any more. after the food we looked around, i found a very lovely blue stoned necklace, the indian blue thing of which i can not right now remember the name of, but the quite simple necklace was on sale for only $60 now. so we let that pass. it wasn't $60 nice. we found the way back to the car by changing the batteries from the camera into the GPS, which turned out to be useful. we drove on from SF to some kind of road side stopping place cum watering hole, of which i hardly remember anything, because i did my favourite thing while being in a car. i slept. after the stop, where we had the usual energy drink (can you imagine anything worse than Redbull? i can!). after that i drove a long long way, all the way through fields and fields of nothing. until we got to Roswell.
But, alas, that will have to wait until another post, since it's mass time in just a few minutes. for those of you that do not play, it means i'm doing useless typing in of numbers and letters for the next 90 min at least
bye!
the last post (no not the commemorative musical piece) was about the petrified forrest, wasn't it? so this one will include the much more impressive Carlsbad Caverns.
After we left the forrest, we drove to Santa Fe. we go there when it was already dark, and again we just kept going up. and up and up. and then up some more. apparently the south is built on about 7000ft (a little over 2km) of what i suppose to be rock or solid ground. that doesn't really matter, but my ears kept popping. after 5 days that kind of gets to you, in a bad way. Anyway, i had my first all american Walmart experience in Santa Fe. and right after that, i had my very first Sonic Banana Milkshake. woah! it has real banananana in it, and not just a hint of banananana flavour! it's awesome!the next day i got that little spot of good news concerning my graduation. called mom and dad, who were celebrating with chinese. so i bought myself 2 cheapass bracelets (but i like em, christal and jade) at Jackalope, one of the bazaar like shopping things. it's fun as long as you know how to keep you money hidden.
after that we hit downtown, which is as much unlike any other US downtown you will ever find. It's all adobe buildings, and nothing really goes over 3 stories high. that goes for the rest of Santa Fe as far as i could see it. it was incredibly warm, and we visited toe Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which, of course, was tiny but it had a nice collection of flowers on display. after that, my first 'mexican' food. it was hot, but not nearly as hot as Heidi's cooking. and it had a lot of beans in it. yuck. they seem to be big on that here. beans. refried too, which means they fry them somewhere, mash em up at that same place, put it in a can, which at home you open up, put in a pan and warm up again. ew. anyway, Santa Fe. i cannot stop making that rhyme, sorry, i'll try not to do that any more. after the food we looked around, i found a very lovely blue stoned necklace, the indian blue thing of which i can not right now remember the name of, but the quite simple necklace was on sale for only $60 now. so we let that pass. it wasn't $60 nice. we found the way back to the car by changing the batteries from the camera into the GPS, which turned out to be useful. we drove on from SF to some kind of road side stopping place cum watering hole, of which i hardly remember anything, because i did my favourite thing while being in a car. i slept. after the stop, where we had the usual energy drink (can you imagine anything worse than Redbull? i can!). after that i drove a long long way, all the way through fields and fields of nothing. until we got to Roswell.
But, alas, that will have to wait until another post, since it's mass time in just a few minutes. for those of you that do not play, it means i'm doing useless typing in of numbers and letters for the next 90 min at least
bye!
Monday, October 03, 2005
Monday, September 26, 2005
it's official
someone fell for it and approved my graduation! it worked, and now it's official. i'm smart!
Friday, September 23, 2005
woaaaaaaah said the squirelly..... that's a big fucking hole!!!! now where did i throw that acorn at.........
that would be this particular one.....
wow..... i wonder who put that hole in the ground, and why. it's really really really pretty, and HUGE!!!!! but i don't see any other use for it...... not that it needs it, but it must've been really inconvenient too at some point in time. 'neways, some more pics here.....
apparently i was there too. notice the sweater, jeans and scarf. add to that the fact that i am actually in Arizona, where it's always warm. bleh, i got a sore throat, a swolen gland in my neck, and just a then a little fever too. yay! i get to the biggest hole in the ground you've ever seen and i get sick.....
ok ok, you can't see the scarf. but i'm wearing it, believe me. at least by now, the fever has gone, and with it the muscle aches. today, before driving to santa fe, we went to the petrified forrest and the painted desert. (<------ see that? desert..... guess what happened in the desert, today AND yesterday..... yes, it rained) but it was really cool and we didn't get rained on, and most of all, it wasn't too hot either. 
lots more where that came from, but now i'm peckish ( 10.30pm on a burger and a bacon sandwich) and we apparently need an eraser and some nivea. so i'm off for now, sure i'll post again soon........
btw a change in plans due to these silly hurricanes. seems like there's another one about to hit. close to Houston this time so i'm told. so the roads are all full and therefor no Austin right now. so we're on to Carlsbad tomorrow, where they have caves, after we hit the art quarter here. from there, i guess it's on to Greenville, TX.
PS. congrats Theresa!
DG (or any other PR member reading this) hope you got away without too much trouble. hope to see you soon.
BYE!!!!! or as they seem to say around here.... ADIOS!!!!
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
starbucks am teh cool
uhuh..... niet iedere koffietent heeft inet ;)
maar starbucks wel!
San Diego was net als de rest, veeeeeeeel kleiner dan verwacht. de zoo was best leuk hoor, maar kan niet tippen aan de Burger's zoo. museum park viel ook tgen, want, uiteraard op maandag was de helft dicht. het fotografie museum dat wel open was, werd natuurlijk verbouwd, met zo'n beetje 10% waar we wel bij konden. was wel aardig, maar toen hebben we het maar opgegeven. dus nu zijn we onderweg naar de grand canyon (niks geboekt, dus ook nog geen slaapplaats)
maar de frappuchino was lekker, en je kunt hier internetten. dus all is good in the world. toedels maar weer, tot de volgende starbucks
maar starbucks wel!
San Diego was net als de rest, veeeeeeeel kleiner dan verwacht. de zoo was best leuk hoor, maar kan niet tippen aan de Burger's zoo. museum park viel ook tgen, want, uiteraard op maandag was de helft dicht. het fotografie museum dat wel open was, werd natuurlijk verbouwd, met zo'n beetje 10% waar we wel bij konden. was wel aardig, maar toen hebben we het maar opgegeven. dus nu zijn we onderweg naar de grand canyon (niks geboekt, dus ook nog geen slaapplaats)
maar de frappuchino was lekker, en je kunt hier internetten. dus all is good in the world. toedels maar weer, tot de volgende starbucks
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