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| 1st June 2008 John McClelland | - From: Day 186 Periorbital edema? |
| 22nd April 2008 David K | Fascinating - From: Day 229 Reading your travel blog has been a truly fascinating experience. What are your plans for keepsake memories? 20-volume scrapbook sorted alphabetically? Documentary? Internationally renown Emmy-winning Powerpoint presentation? |
| 20th April 2008 K | Not a crane... - From: Day 228 I think that's a Great Blue. Heron. Which might technically be from the crane family. But it has Great Blue markings. |
| 8th April 2008 Country Roads | More Awesome Adventures on the Bayou - From: Day 221 Homeless guys and hard partying aren't all we're about down here (although those are doubtlessly important facets!). There's tons to do, especially right now - next time you pass through, check out some great events, cuisine, music, and places to stay in those little towns and in the bigger cities too at www.countryroadsmag.com ! |
| 8th April 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 223 It definitely is. You can look the company up on the web, and they have contracts to build LCVs. The pictures you can see of the design will confirm it too. |
| 8th April 2008 Mom | LCV - From: Day 223 Strange looking ship. I'll be interested in seeing if your guess as to what it is is right. |
| 5th April 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 220 Cotton, apparently. |
| 5th April 2008 Mom | state house - From: Day 221 I see what you mean about the state house. I like the older one better. The dome is spectacular. |
| 5th April 2008 Mom | plantation - From: Day 220 Did they grow rice or cotton at this plantation? Sounds like the land is more suited to rice. |
| 3rd April 2008 Araby | I am liking the Astro-McDonalds - From: Day 217 http://www.drivl.com/posts/view/738 and the banana slug |
| 31st March 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 213 I guess I never really paid much attention to them. |
| 30th March 2008 Mom | white flower - From: Day 213 I don't mind you not knowing all the flowers, they are still beautiful to look at and when we're still looking at snow and brown grass it's nice to see. I do find it funny though that after years of seeing churches decorated with Easter lilies on Easter you didn't recognize that one in New Braunfels. |
| 26th March 2008 Kipx | LOL - From: Day 207 I truely laughed out loud upon seeing those last two pictures. You guys are great. Night. |
| 26th March 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 45 Thanks! |
| 26th March 2008 shawn | Nice - From: Day 45 Excellent pictures and blog. I love living in the Black Hills. |
| 25th March 2008 Michelle | Jumping over flowing water - From: Day 208 - Hopefully one day you two will fully realize the extent to which leaving marked trails only results in difficulty crossing flowing water. Although I do have to give Onaxthiel some credit, that looks like one heck of a "jump." |
| 24th March 2008 Mom | Palo Duro Canyon - From: Day 206 It looks like an interesting place to hike. Very pretty. Love, Mom |
| 19th March 2008 Mom | mountain goats - From: Day 204 Finally there are mountain goats. I thought for sure you'd be lucky enough to see them up in the northern states as you hiked in the mountains, but at least you got to see a fairly good size herd. Loved the Claret Cup cactus flower. Spring must be the time to visit the southwestern deserts. Love, Mom |
| 12th March 2008 Mom | hugging cactus - From: Day 196 You grew up with a little barrel cactus in the house. Don't you remember getting tiny spines in your finger? What do you mean by hugging cactus? Loved the pictures of the desert in spring though. Love, Mom |
| 9th March 2008 Michelle | Strange Coincidences - From: Day 194 - Wow, that is pretty amazing.... maybe even a little scary. Plus I had no idea that Onaxthiel was such a common name. |
| 9th March 2008 David K | History repeats - From: Day 193 - The question now is whether you can pinpoint the era when the petroglyphic media started putting the Page Two celebrities onto Page One of the Newspaper Rock and then try to find the independent liberal newspaper pebbles complaining about the devolution of "The Big News Rock" media. |
| 7th March 2008 Xtvcl | To Obfuscator and Onaxthiel's Mom - From: Day 182 It's okay, I don't think it was really your influence. What I didn't mention in my rebuttal was that it was a Friday night, which is a notoriously difficult night to eat out in that area of the city. Also we really did have a good time overall (although I must admit for a little bit there I was significantly worried that Onaxthiel was looking pretty grumpy). If I had the time to add my own lessons learned section it would go something like this: 1) Banana slugs are everywhere (imagine me having lived here for almost two years and not noticed them before) 2) It's good to get a full night's sleep especially if you are going hiking the next day 3) If you plan on going out to eat with Obfuscator and Onaxthiel on a Friday night in a big city, plan ahead and go someplace that take reservations |
| 5th March 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 190 Honestly, there just didn't seem to be anything there worth stopping for. |
| 5th March 2008 anonymous | - From: Day 190 I got it. I would question who would be crazy enough to drive *away* from Las Vegas, however. ;-) |
| 5th March 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 190 Well, we actually paid the $7 parking, since we were coming from the Nevada side. We didn't discover the free parking until we were on our way out from the Hoover Dam, going into Arizona. I don't know how we avoided the traffic on a Sunday. We did get there fairly early in the morning, and were out of there by maybe early afternoon? The traffic could definitely be a good reason to park on the Nevada side, but only if you're coming from that side already anyway, right? |
| 5th March 2008 David K | off-peak - From: Day 190 Just a comment about Hoover Dam. Until the new bridge over the canyon (river? lake?) is finished, driving over the dam when there's traffic can take at least 30 minutes, if not far more. The $7 for parking will be well worth the extra hour round trip were you to try to go over the dam. I am curious as to how you avoided the typically horrendous traffic on a weekend day. |
| 4th March 2008 Mom | Thanks - From: BlogDay: 184: Thanks for the beautiful flower picture dedication. We are about 1 1/2 feet of snow melt and about 8 weeks away from seeing spring flowers so it's nice to know it's spring somewhere in the world. |
| 4th March 2008 Kipx | Sloths, for real?! - From: Day-185 Dude that's amusing. But you know what's not really that amusing to me, "James & The Giant Peach" the movie. Saw it this weekend. Anyway, less non-sequiter, what have you been pondering as of late? And how's Ox? |
| 28th February 2008 Mom | to xtvcl - From: Day 182 Sorry Xtvcl, I was never very good at lines so the boys never got practice standing in lines. I'm really surprised you got them to wait for a table in a restaurant at all. |
| 27th February 2008 Xtvcl | Picture of me and Onaxthiel - From: Day 181 I love how in the shot of me and Onaxthiel atop Battery Townsley I look so overjoyed just to have made it up there in the first place and meanwhile Onaxthiel is clearly looking at the next gunnery encampment out of the corner of his eye, plotting how to get over there. That picture pretty much sums up the whole situation quite nicely. |
| 27th February 2008 Nick | Of shoes and slugs - From: Day 181 1) I always it was odd that a shoe company had their own missile silos but that's the Cold War for ya. 2) BANANA SLUG |
| 27th February 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 75 Nifty! |
| 27th February 2008 Rick | Nathan Hale Schoolhouse - From: Day 75 The Nathan Hale schoolhouse in New London was an actual schoolhouse not a replica. He taught here in 1774-1775 |
| 11th February 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 154 Surprisingly, I think we had a conversation about it, and just decided we were too lazy, or something. |
| 11th February 2008 Mom | Kit Carson - From: Day 154 I'm surprised I didn't see you riding the horse along with Kit. Nevada laws must be more stringent than Boston's. |
| 11th February 2008 Obfuscator | - From: Day 153 Soda straws aren't helictites, they're tiny stalactites that haven't really fully formed yet. Helictites push out sideways, soda straws are much more conventional, if new and delicate. |
| 11th February 2008 Kipx | helictite soda - From: Day 153 Ok, but how are "soda straw" cave formations different than "helictites," or are soda straws technically a kind of helictites? |
| 2nd February 2008 Mom | cave formations - From: Day 153 I think your cave pictures are some of the best of the trip. It looks like the cave has a wide variety of formations to study. Love, Mom |
| 24th January 2008 j | nice - From: Day 146 Sounds like fun, but who is this mysterious, sexy sounding, j you speak of? |
| 23rd January 2008 Mom | folding boat - From: Day 144 Great museum. I can see why you spent all day there. Wonderful to see electric wheelchairs from long ago and imaginative things like a folding boat. I wonder if it really worked. |
| 13th January 2008 Jesse4Now | And why - From: Day 138 And why isn't it "A Factevr?" |
| 13th January 2008 Jesse4Ever | Atchison - From: Day 138 This is one of the trivia questions I was going to use for the President's quiz in February, but it is a bit too controversial as his term technically ended on the same day as Polk. I prefer to think, that for one Sunday, the United States had no President. |
| 8th January 2008 Michelle | funny squiggly pilars - From: Obfuscator's Christmas Vacation from Extended Vacation Wow! are those solomonic columns? I am impressed. |
| 24th December 2007 anonymous | - From: Day 115 Extremely jealous. My new number is 770-310-6344 --Mac |
| 21st December 2007 Mom | river - From: Day 115 Lovely pictures of the river. I can see why you think it would be a nice place to spend more time. |
| 17th December 2007 Mom | Are you sure? - From: Day 109 Are you sure that you are just typing the blog because you wanted to give Obfuscator the day off? You maybe weren't fast enough with your pocket knive to save his fingers from the alligator in that picture and you don't want to tell me that he's minus a few digits. Love, Mom |
| 16th December 2007 Doongar | - From: Day 110 You know where Charles Sumner attended church? That's right... King's Chapel. We're everywhere. |
| 13th December 2007 Mom | Ripleys - From: Day 108 What a fascinating place. Love the Redwood tree house and the Chinese pagoda made of match sticks. The place looks more interesting than I would have imagined. |
| 12th December 2007 Michelle | I love 19th century french realism... but for breakfast - From: Day 108 Degas on toast.....the what is the world coming to? |
| 9th December 2007 Jesse | Nathan Hale - From: Day 75 You should have called me. Nathan Hale's Homestead is in Coventry - my hometown. And yes, it is really, really hard to find and on a back road. |
| 9th December 2007 Michelle | One would think that shuttle launches would be fairly on schedule.... - From: Day 105 So if you two are detained for much longer are you going to go to Disneyworld? |
| 9th December 2007 Obfuscator | - From: Day 104 Yeah, we got the glasses. In fact, without them, it looked way screwed up. While I don't blame you for the mechanical failure . . . I don't know how to end that sentence! Go Sunday launch! |
| 8th December 2007 J | Tom Cruise - From: Day 104 Did you get to wear the 3-d glasses with the IMAX movie? They make it even cooler. Sorry about the mechanical failure, there haven't been any for the past 3-4 launches so I figured they were done. |
| 6th December 2007 B | you sons of bitches - From: Day 101 Hey, hows about YOU'RE casualties, eh?! I'm offended - deeply, deeply offended. Furthermore, I challenge ye bothe to a duel, a duel...OF SCIENCE! |
| 26th November 2007 Kipx | Tree - From: Day 84-85 Now THAT'S a tree spirit! At least it makes me think of the Ents the way it's framed and so erratic in its near trunkless shape. Very cool! So sad I did not have my sh!1 together to join you in Shenandoah:( Happy belated Thanksgiving to you both, and your families all the same. Hope you're both well. |
| 19th November 2007 Mom | Mountains! - From: Day 83 Liked your vista pictures. Bet it's great to be back in county with a little more wilderness and a lot less people. Though the Baltimore Harbor picture was nice, the sunset in the mountains was better. |
| 17th November 2007 Obfuscator | - From: Days 67-72 Since we haven't seen the movie in question, no. |
| 17th November 2007 Obfuscator | - From: Days 67-72 The name of the Hotel is correct. The movie we were looking for is The Boondock Saints. |
| 17th November 2007 Obfuscator | - From: Day 76 Yeah, you're correct. The repeal of Daylight Savings Time is what screws us over. I just didn't bother correcting Onaxthiel in editing mode, 'cause I figured everyone would get it. And since you did, it seems that the theory holds. |
| 16th November 2007 Jeff | daylight savings - From: Day 76 do you hate daylight savings, or the lack thereof? Daylight savings makes it stay light longer in the evening. So if you're complaining about it getting dark early, what you want is for Daylight savings to last longer. OK I'll stop now. |
| 12th November 2007 Nick | Gillette Castle - From: Day 75 I think the problem with the castle is that it is missing a moat and drawbridge and the spots for archers and places to pour boiling oil. It's not very defensible. |
| 8th November 2007 Lisa R. | hotel - From: Days 67-72 The hotel you have pictured is the Boston Copley Plaza Hotel. I'm not sure what movie it was featured in. |
| 6th November 2007 Michelle | That hotel in the picture - From: Days 67-72 I have never seen the movie but I want to say that hotel was in The Age of Innocence (that is what other people have told me at least). Does that qualify for half a bonus point? |
| 2nd November 2007 Mom | squirrels - From: Day 59 What do you have against squirrels? Didn't I raise you right? There'd be far fewer oak trees if squirrels weren't around buring nuts and forgeting where they buried them. |
| 2nd November 2007 mom | fall colors - From: Day 62 There's still colors on the trees in the Silver Lake picture. Wonder why you are finding so many things closed. |
| 1st November 2007 zach | (y) - From: Cthuloid menace In Niagara Nicely done gentlemen, nicely done! :) Happy Halloween to you both! |
| 1st November 2007 Jeff | bar harbor - From: Day 64 Think lobster. Think deep-sea fishing. Think eclectic boutiques. Now you're in the Bar Harbor groove... Just don't try this with vegetarian friends. |
| 1st November 2007 J | texas falls - From: Day 62 sounds like they were pretty poorly named. Anything named after Texas ought to be at least as big as the state itself. |
| 31st October 2007 Jesse | Oh Franconia - From: Day 63 Thanks for bringing back all of the memories. As a Boy Scout I spent many a camping trip at Franconia! |
| 25th October 2007 Lelah | Teapot Dome - From: Day 45 Ah yes, the Teapot Dome Scandal. As a side-note of interest, my great-great uncle was Harry Ford Sinclair. One and the same who took part in that very ordeal. :-) I remember going through the Black Hills when I was a kid (my family was headed for Yellowstone to see the introduction of the wolves). My dad took a picture of a cow. We lived in Wisconsin and all he could do was take a picture of a cow. |
| 14th October 2007 Doongar | - From: Day 45 My family and I went out West maybe 5 years ago, and we thought the Crazy Horse monument was pretty neat, too. Doesn't seem like they've made much progress in the last few years either. |
| 11th October 2007 Emily M. | Green River - From: Day 43 Once, on a mad-dash car drive from LA to Chicago, my sister and I slept at a rest stop just outside of Green River and then had breakfast in town at the Buckaroo Cafe. Real nice waitress there. Y'know, just in case you were curious. |
| 10th October 2007 Kathy | why preserves are the favorite of anarchists - From: Day 42 Apparently national monuments can be declared without congressional approval (the designation typically applies to areas with less "diverse resources"). Looks like the "preserve" designation allows certain activities restricted in national parks. So go crazy with the fire! Kath |
| 7th October 2007 Mom | Shoshone Falls - From: Day 42 I can see why Onathiel likes Shoshone Falls. Combined with the cascades they look like an interesting place to visit and a fun place to explore. |
| 12th September 2007 Kipx | . - From: Day 12 I must respectfully disagree about the Simpson movie being amusing... but I must say that's some impressive allergies there Obfuscator. |
| 11th September 2007 Theresa | electricity out of our eyeballs - From: Day 14 So in no way was this trip at all about "getting away" eh? |
| 11th September 2007 Danielle | Obfuscator in the morning - From: Day 12 Wow! I am glad that the reaction is getting better. Man, that does not look like fun. :( |
| 11th September 2007 Danielle | Apples - From: Day 11 So you liked wild, tiny, tart apples, huh? I wish we could have reached one at T-Weed. |
| 11th September 2007 Theresa | yikes! - From: Day 6 That "yikes" is for both the excessively hairy arm picture (the lighting really highlights that rather more than the grasshopper) AND the gigantic spider. I *hate* spiders. |
| 11th September 2007 dallas | stark lake - From: Day 6 I love stark lake i go camping there every year at wah bona qwat |
| 11th September 2007 allen | /me loves TRNP - From: Day 15 i do! i love it! I want to go back, and you two are making me want to go back more! |
| 11th September 2007 allen | yay Medora! - From: Day 14 I LOVE medora, i'm so glad you guys made the time to go see it! Also, Yay for technology. Roadgames only work if there are more then two people in the car, in my experience. :P I, for one, am glad that technology is able to keep you guys in contact with us. |
| 11th September 2007 allen | gas - From: Day 13 gas prices are high everywhere, right now. :P |
| 11th September 2007 Mom | old fashion travel - From: Day 14 Let's see, people sang songs together in cars, read books, talked to each other. People played games like I Spy, looking for letters of the alphabet in order, Zoo, games with license plates, and Slug Bug. |
| 11th September 2007 Michelle | - From: Day 12 I don't know what you are talking about. It has been a life long dream of mine to spend a long cold winter holed up in a fort with a french man. |
| 11th September 2007 Mom | graves - From: Day 11 Glad you finally found one of the graves you've been looking for. |
| 11th September 2007 Mom | bird - From: Day 11 Could your mystery bird be a wild turkey? The neck looks longer than a pheasant. |
| 4th September 2007 allen | more on betty: - From: Day 4 any details on what was disturbing about her? |
| 3rd September 2007 allen | SALT - From: Day 8 salt for leeches! THEY HATE IT, they DIE! |
| 3rd September 2007 allen | ticks - From: Day 6 i've actually heard of the tick race! Go Michael Feldman! |
| 30th August 2007 Allen | sounds great! - From: Day 3 Makes me wonder if i can actaully think of things for visitors to see in this city... Hmmm... |
| 29th August 2007 amy | nice - From: Day 1 good job human tripod...beautifully done. just nee a lil led night frisbee in the air...j/k |
| 29th August 2007 Araby | awesome - From: Day 1 awesome |