RoadBoot

I just put up a captioned gallery in place of the old photosets. There are 187 photos, in no categories. The gallery requires flash to view, so if you don’t have it you are out of luck.

Quite a few episodes and people are missing from the collection, and many of our adventures are not mentioned there. By way of excuse I can only say that there simply were things that we neglected to capture with stills. For instance we totally forgot to snap a picture of Slack, even though her interview was the longest of all.

Otherwise I hope you enjoy the slideshow.

Btw, L.Acid was quite liberal with the veracity of his comments. It would not be a stretch to say that at least half of the words in the gallery contain some element of falsehood. More than a few are bold-faced lies.

Mud Bay Coffee, where I long planned the road trip, is still the same. They still roast their own beans, they still serve up delicious espresso, they still give me free refills even after I’ve been inside all day. I love this place. I want to hang a certain big painting over the door to the conference room, if I don’t first give it to some friends Up North.

There is a story about what has been happening since the trip ended. CC, as you all know, made his way back home after we got lost in Portland, and is currently gearing up to return to a heavy workload at school. I spent my last pennies building a box to house and edit the many hours of footage we took over the summer, which was more than a chore. Hard work builds character.

So do problems. The new set-up had problems capturing from the 30 tapes that comprise our minidv collection. After troubleshooting through four different capture utilities, switching between three different cameras, and even performing a test record on a portion of unused tape I determined that my camera screwed up the A/V sync while recording, messed it up enough to make it appear that there is no audio. I remember CC mentioning something about timecode problems while we were on the road, but I thought nothing of it.

I board a plane to Korea tomorrow afternoon. CC has graciously offered to attempt a capture operation of his own, for which I am very grateful, and toward that end I have mailed him all the tapes.

So there you have it. Right now the embryos of RoadBoot Brainchild are making their way through the stratosphere, patiently awaiting more cruel experiments at the hands of desperate amateurs. Before mailing the package I wrote “Pandora” on the box lid, just so that CC knows what he is getting into.

Darn it! I should have written “Hope” on a scrap of paper and put it underneath all the tapes! Ah, for lost opportunities.

Updated, with a mileage counter placed in the text area.

Here in Flagstaff there is a sweet little bistro called “The Campus Coffee Bean”. Hip and trendy, cool and atmospheric, with good food and great roasts, this artistically influenced coffee shop/deli has everything your intrepid heroes need to pass a pleasant evening. Including Internet. Wireless internet. PAY internet.

WHAT!!!!!! FIVE BUCKS AN HOUR FOR CRAPPY DSL, PLUS THE BILIOUS COFFEE!!?!?!?

Here in Flagstaff there is a portal to hell called the “Campus Coffee Bean”. Within the fiery nether regions of that twice-cursed (*spits*) shop of horrors is a terrible goul named “Connection Unavailable” that stomps out the eyes of would-be websurfers with unnatural and demonic delight. Five bucks an hour! Kill me now and end the suffering.

CC’s battery just died. We’re on our way to Texas to visit Focusly.

After some mad last-minute preparations and a few returns home for forgotten items, CC and I have finally made it to I-5 and the open freeway. I apologize for not being on the ball with the itinerary, but you can find a basic map on this page , which contains some colorful stars over our main destinations. If your town isn’t there, tell me!

L.Acid

L.Acid and I have met up and are getting ready for the trip. Not much to report, at this point. We bought a little Hitachi grill for the road, as well as a cooler and a lantern. And a new tent. Other than that, not much. We’ve only been hanging out for a few hours.

Things are on their way!