one year ago today.

it has been a very long time since posting. as a result my brain deems it necessary to just think about where i was a year ago today.


dan and jimmy, 3 euro red wine in a park, montmartre, paris.


view to the south from the eiffel tower.


a shine on the cobbled streets near the seine after a dounpour.


metropol hotel in "beautiful" calais. staying the night, waiting for the first ferry to dover in the morning.

happy travels.

new in life:
- exactly one month from today i will graduate from college.
- angela and i have begun the application process for teaching english in south korea!
- my intramural soccer club, Sherburne United F.C., has made it to the playoffs.

-e

introducing...

http://bikeportland.org/2009/09/15/introducing-the-hopworksfiets-beer-pizza-music-and-true-portland-spirit-all-on-one-bike/

thanks to katy m. this is such a fantasic idea i won't even bother to shorten the url.

-e

transport

as promised a few days back, here are a few cool vehicles i have spotted lately...


no need to adjust your monitor settings, the subaru sambar dias II "super charger" is that small. and 4WD! that's a drift machine, there.


something i've always wanted myself, a 60 series toyota land cruiser. not specifically unique but always perfect.


you can't get any classier than a pearl white 1972 jaguar e-type series III.


possibly the world's sexiest saloon car. mercedes-benz's CLS 550. four seats and nearly 400 horsepower in a rolled sheet metal frock. this isn't even the mentalist AMG version my roommate in england had but still just as pretty.

-e

tides

angela and i just returned to bellingham after a three day vacation to the oregon coast. the nature of our trip was two fold: 1) it was angela's birthday on the 17th and 2) it's a yearly thing, our coastal haunt. we camped for two nights and traveled a total of just over 1000 miles. on our journey we discussed teaching in korea, the nature of a car's exhaust pipe and its relation to human anatomy, met up with jill for dutch tacos and decided that it would be best to own a small bookstore. here are a few photos from our lovely roadtrip...


angela being radiant at nehalem bay beach


rockaway beach


le chateau du dignity at nehalem bay state park





incidentally, i saw a number of special vehicles that i will post en homage to man on the move.

-e

night shift

other than the sounders and their rubbish gameplay of late, good things have been happening in my world.

i'm the newest employee at bellingham's coolest video store, film is truth!

-e