17 December 2008

I Left My Heart...


"It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness of the late afternoon of time."

-- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 9

Lombard Street, San Francisco

San Francisco treat

Alcatraz and beyond

Swimming at Cal

Crossing the Bay Bridge

Trying to get the last drop

Hustled at Blooms Saloon

#2 (Double double, fries and a coke)

12 December 2008

Arizona and California


Hair blowing in the hot wind,
Time hanging from a clothespin
There's no sorrow that the sun's not gonna heal
I smell the leather of your new car
Drive through the desert after nightfall
Sleep on the shoulder, keep the stars all to ourselves
--Conor Oberst, "Sausalito"
















10 December 2008

T For Texas

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
--Davey Crocket

Congress Street bridge, Austin, Texas

Texas State Capital

Remember the Alamo

Riverwalk, San Antonio

New friend

US-10, West Texas

West Texas

Riding the Stagecoach

Walking the Line

Horsing around

Near Marfa Texas

Carlsbad Caverns, NM

Artesia, NM

03 December 2008

That's Right (You're Not From Texas)

You say you're not from Texas
Man as if I couldn't tell
You think you pull your boots on right
And wear your hat so well

--Lyle Lovett


When I crossed the state line into Texas, the sign read: "El Paso 857 miles." I stopped to visit running friends in Houston and Austin. Next stop, the Alamo.

Historic Bastrop, TX

Burrito 1, Monkey 0

Stevie Ray Vaughn, Austin, TX

Before...

After

Live music at the Saxon Pub, Austin

The Big Easy

Oak Alley Plantation on the Great River Road, Vacherie, Louisiana

Evacuation Route, LA 18, St James Parish

Visiting the Mayfair Witches

Lafayette #1 Cemetery, Garden District, New Orleans

City of the Dead

Bourbon Street

Swing in Jackson Square, Garden District, New Orleans

Chocolate Pecan Pie

Beignets and Cafe Au Lait at Cafe Du Monde, New Orleans

Cable Car Public Art

Monkey's Evil Twin