Katrina

Well Hurricane Katrina is currently battering southern Florida. She hit landfall almost exactly due east of where I am right now. Winds are crazy strong right now. It's not raining too hard, but as the clouds rotate we're going to get our share of torrential rains tonight and tomorrow morning. There should be lots of flooding, lots of thunder of lightning, and lots of trees knocked over by the wind. Oh, and Katrina's only a Category 1 hurricane. They go up to 5.

Moonrise

Tonight I saw something I'd never seen before: the moon rising up out of the ocean. It's weird being on the east coast where the sun rises out of the ocean and sets behind the buildings facing the beach, when you're used to seeing it the opposite way, with the sun setting in the ocean. Seeing the moon rising up out of the ocean, glowing an eerie shade of orange, for the first time, is one of those things you know you're going to remember. The mood was also helped by a thunderstorm to the right with frequent lightning jumping from cloud to cloud and occasionally striking down to the ocean, and by the fact that I was sitting there with Mirella, enjoying a nice romantic moment on a practically deserted beach.

The $30 parking ticket when we got back to the truck kind of brought things back to reality though ;)

The Abandoned Blog

Obviously I haven't been updating this blog recently. I sucks. I should start updating more regularly, although I'm sure most everyone that used to stop by here to read doesn't anymore. I apologize to all my loyal readers :(

I'll try to start blogging more often since I'm not around you all anymore.

Here at last!

Well we made it. We got here Sunday night about 11pm EST (or EDT, whatever the hell it is right now). I haven't been able to post until now because my parents' computer is a piece of junk and I'm still trying to get it to work right :P It doesn't look like all my updates made it to Blogger, but they made it to Flickr, so if you want to see all the pictures and blog entries that should have been here, then you'll have to visit my Flickr page. Just click the Flickr logo on the sidebar over there on the right and it should take you to my page.

That's all for now, more updates later.

New Hat

Mirella's getting in the southern spirit. She bought this at our first stop in Louisiana.

Faux Carl's

I'd heard of Hardee's before but never eaten there, until now. The menu is nothing like Carl's back home.

Stupid traffic pt. 2

Well we got past the last traffic jam only to get stuck in another one in downtown Houston.

Stupid traffic

Almost to Houston and an accident or something has the whole freeway closed.

Texas gas prices

Don't you wish you lived here?

1,000 Miles

Just hit the 1000 mile mark. We're not even halfway there yet but it's still cool.

My copilot

The drive is much easier when you have someone to talk to and to help drive.

Kent Public School

Stopping in Kent, TX came across this lonely abandoned building which apparently used to be the Kent Public School.

Mexican Border

We're in Texas now, paralleling the Rio Grande. This is a picture of a Mexican neighborhood right across the river.

Music!

Stopped at Walmart and picked up some travelling music. There's not alot of good radio in the middle of nowhere.

Hungry!

Stopping for food in Deming, NM.