Walter took 763 photos during our drive around the south-west. Perhaps when he gets home on tuesday he will post a few of them. We stopped in Taos New Mexico for lunch at a tiny little taco diner (very good food) and later that day he was reading his "Fodor" guide to new mexico and the little diner we ate at was listed as "excellent." Walter had a fish taco while I ate 3 shredded beef/blue corn tacos.
These pictures are lovely, Ossobuco! I am generally not a great fan of suburbs, but this one must have retained a lot of its charm since you last saw it. You're lucky they haven't bulldozed the place and replaced everything with McMansions. I like those old frame houses and this brick school a lot. I'm happy for you that you've made the trip there.
sozobe wrote:Can you have your luggage blessed or something before you take off?
Indeed, before I left the hotel, I had performed a magic, Kalahari-medicine-man dance around my suitcase. Five minutes later, it started to rain in Chicago (again). Wrong blessing, I guess.
Thomas, It's a good thing you didn't create a flood.
He might have, we're still waiting for it to stop!
Thanks, J_B.
Osso, I don't know where I got the idea that your were raised in L.A., more or less where I was. I guess I got the notion from the fact that you went to my alma mater, UCLA.
dyslexia wrote:Walter took 763 photos ....
Make it about 500 (plus 80 black&white with the second camera) :wink:
good evening walter and dys and diane
Electricity de France just dug up Old Orchard.
But at least we have power back.
What can it mean?
Walter Hinteler wrote:[Make it about 500 (plus 80 black&white with the second camera) :wink:
About 4GB of flash memory cards (with RAW)?
Correct - I'm now on my reserve 512 MB :wink:
(Although, I didn't do it in RAW but "Fine", "best qualty" etc ... which comes out as the same result.)
thanks for sharing the meetup in pics. I'd kinda like to meet alla ya one day.
snood wrote:thanks for sharing the meetup in pics. I'd kinda like to meet alla ya one day.
If your current avatar is you and you're really in the army, it's only a matter of time until they transfer you to Heidelberg. I'll just wait and see you when that happens. Looking forward to it.
Thomas wrote:snood wrote:thanks for sharing the meetup in pics. I'd kinda like to meet alla ya one day.
If your current avatar is you and you're really in the army, it's only a matter of time until they transfer you to Heidelberg. I'll just wait and see you when that happens. Looking forward to it.
Since I know from your various photos that you are, snood, it really would be fun meeting at some garrison in Germany.
But I'm sure, I will re-meet those I've met already here plus a couple more on my next our ... (that time) through the USA :wink:
I know of a few special white steepled churches, Walter.
Hey, snood, next time we visit Austin to visit with our son, we can have a Austin Gathering heh?
Just back home after pizza and a lot of talk with Walter, Diane, and Dys.
Walter, Diane, and I went to Madrid today - that's an old mining town that's turned into a crafts shoppe village, picturesque indeed. The changes in the sky during the round trip from Albuquerque across the Sandias, up highway 14 to and through Madrid to Santa Fe and back to Abq were plain fabulous.
JLN, you're right, essentially - I was born in LA, lived from 1-4 in Dayton, Ohio; part of age 5 in west LA, part of age 5 in Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA); 6 & 7 in west Los Angeles, 8 in New York City, 9-13 in Evanston, Illinois; 13-58 in Los Angeles, 58 + in Eureka, CA, and, as I approach my medicare years, Albuquerque. (Whatta ride...)
Well, it's starting to look like the last duty station before retirement is going to be Ft Bragg, N.C. But if you get to San antonio before winter this year C.I., look me up.
snood, It will be my pleasure to do so. You can send me your email address to mine or by PM.
c.i.,
Is there any timing and/or location for the Spain meet next year??
