Another Carving
dfx| October 30, 2008 8:30 amHere’s one I did on Tuesday night… Took maybe an hour… Still have four more to carve!
My Solvera Carving Contest Entry
dfx| October 29, 2008 8:15 amHere is the pumpkin I am submitting for the Solvera carving Contest… Pretty cool huh?
Vacation Day 11 – New Stanton, PA to Albany, NY
Dallas| August 19, 2008 7:08 pmWe’ve been really busy since arriving in Quebec… I haven’t had a chance to post any entries on here!
Day 11 was an interesting day for us… We decided to put our new GPS to the ultimate test and take it for a ride right into the heart of New York City… Manhattan Island. We’ve never been there before, so this was an amazing experience for both of us. We set our destination as the Staten Island Ferry terminal at the south end of Manhattan, and let the GPS guide us there. We had a couple small mixups due to myself missing a turn here and there, but the GPS was always quick to recalculate our route and get us right back on track. We wasted little time getting to the south end of Manhattan… Traffic was surprisingly light this Tuesday afternoon.
After arriving at our destination, we drove around looking for a place to park, and finally found one where you give them the keys and let them do all the work… The price was $27 per hour… and was in line with the other places we saw downtown… VERY expensive!
We then walked about 6 blocks to the Staten Island Ferry terminal. The Staten Island Ferry is a free ferry that runs very frequent (about every 15 minutes) and very cheap (free!) from the south end of Manhattan to Staten Island. As it pulls away from the dock, you get a great view of Manhattan… and then during the trip it passes nearby Liberty Island which is the location of the Statue of Liberty. We snapped several pictures of the city and the statue, and then enjoyed the rest of the trip.
Upon arriving at Staten Island, we quickly moved through the terminal back to the boarding area, and hopped on the next ferry back to Manhattan Island without even waiting. We rode the ferry back, and snapped a picture of one of the other ferries as we cruised by.
Once back at the dock, we returned to the building we parked at, and took a great picture of Wall Street along the way.
We then instructed the GPS to take us to Albany, New York, and quickly left Manhattan behind, again with very little traffic for 5:30 PM!
Vacation Day 10 – Cincinnati, OH to New Stanton, PA
Dallas| August 18, 2008 9:52 pmVacation Day 9 – St. Louis, MO to Cincinnati, OH
Dallas| August 17, 2008 9:25 pmWe only had one goal for Day 9, and that was to make it to Columbus, OH by 5 pm. a couple days earlier, I bought a GPS (TomTom Go 930 for those interested) at Best Buy, and was putting it through it’s paces… It was working great until we had about 2 hours left to Columbus, and then it completely crashed… Turns out the TomTom is very sensitive to being removed from it’s PC cradle, and the map data can get corrupted if you do this… So we stopped at a rest stop and restored a previous backup, and we were back on our way.
We arrived at Eddie George’s Grill in Columbus just before 5, right on time… and met with several friends from our EQ2 guild CLAW… In the picture, from left to right, you will find LucianClaw (Brian), Vestanpance (Dan), Myself (Moshek), Letycia (Chantale!), Azri (Sara) and Searril (Brian)… We had a great meal at Eddie George’s, and then Vesty led us on a tour of part of the nearby campus (Where he works!).
After supper, we decided to move on to Cincinatti, so that we could sleep in the next morning before visiting SportTour to pick up some motorcycle luggage!
Vacation Day 8 – Tulsa, OK to St. Louis, MO
Dallas| August 16, 2008 9:19 pmDay 8 left us in St. Louis, so of course we had to go see the St. Louis Arch… I was amazed at how large it was, and I didn’t know it was made of metal… Not to mention that there is a huge complex below it, including a museum, theatre, and tram rides to the top of the arch!
Vacation Day 7 – Albuquerque, NM to Tulsa, OK
Dallas| August 15, 2008 10:50 pmVacation Day 6 – Flagstaff, AZ to Albuquerque, NM
Dallas| August 14, 2008 11:06 pmDay 6 ended up being mostly a travel day, with a brief stop in Holbrook, Arizona to visit the museum, and then a drive through the Petrified Forest nearby. The trip through the “forest” took about an hour, and wasn’t nearly as “exciting” as we had hoped… We did get to see a bunch of petrified wood… And some nice views, but after leaving the Grand Canyon it really didn’t compare!
We ended up driving the rest of the day, and stopped in albuquerque, NM for the night.
