commit 45928abf52ef070fe75d5283dc5b7a9bd3183d6b Author: Pim van Pelt Date: Sun Sep 4 13:08:42 2022 +0200 initial checkin diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc5f1f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +.hugo* +public/ diff --git a/archetypes/default.md b/archetypes/default.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00e77bd --- /dev/null +++ b/archetypes/default.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +--- +title: "{{ replace .Name "-" " " | title }}" +date: {{ .Date }} +draft: true +--- + diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d39e2ca --- /dev/null +++ b/config.toml @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +baseURL = 'https://2010roadtripnyla.weirdnet.nl/' +languageCode = 'en-us' +title = '2010 Roadtrip NY - LA' +theme = 'hugo-theme-notrack' + +mainSections = ["blog"] +# disqusShortname = "example" +paginate = 4 + +[params] + author = "Pim and Paul" + siteHeading = "Roadtrip NY - LA" # defaults to author + favicon = "favicon.ico" # Adds a small icon next to the page title in a tab + showBlogLatest = true + mainSections = ["blog"] + showTaxonomyLinks = false + nBlogLatest = 50 # number of blog post om the home page + blogLatestHeading = "Our adventures" + footer = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." + + [params.social] + email = "info@paphosting.net" + +[taxonomies] + year = "year" + month = "month" + tags = "tags" + categories = "categories" + +[permalinks] + blog = "/blog/:year/:month/:day/:slug" diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..092e28d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: "" +date: 2010-03-01T16:39:16+02:00 +draft: true +--- + +{{< image src="/favicon.ico" width="280px" float="right" >}} + +## Go West! + +Hello world. We, Pim and Paul, have been on a few roadtrips ever since we've had a car available to us. These trips have brought us East (Wroclaw, Poland), North (Uppsala, Sweden) and South (Rome, Italy) but we never ventured West. This, of course, mostly derived from the fact that living in The Netherlands means 'west' is water. We kept making half-baked plans to go west but these never came to fruition. + +So, in September 2009, over a very nice dinner in Almere, we were discussing 'The West' again. This is when we decided to go on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles somewhere in 2010. This is the report of our 3 week journey across the continental USA. + + +**NOTE**: This blog was converted from our old blogger, and most of the media was salvaged. There are a few pictures that got lost in the annals of time, notably the ones from Picasaweb. Somehow, Pim forgot to make a backup (or move the albums to another, more durable, storage system). In an attempt to take control of our own media, during our 2022 Roadtrip to the North Cape, we decided to self-host the website on our own server. diff --git a/content/blog/1000-miles.md b/content/blog/1000-miles.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e65413 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/1000-miles.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 13: 1000 miles and running' +date: 2010-05-07T11:50:44+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## 1000 miles in a day + +Leaving Dallas on Wednesday night at 10:30pm, we had fallen some 5 hours behind on our original schedule (thanks again, AA). We decided to clear the Dallas / Fort Worth area as much as we could and get us some shuteye ASAP. We ended up in Weatherford, TX, some 50 miles from DFW. + +After breakfast at Waffle House we set the satnav to direct us to Midland, TX, where we were hoping to see some pumpjacks. Turns out West Texas is one big oilfield, so there were pumpjacks just about everywhere we looked. Pim took some very nice photos well before reaching Midland so we then decided to drive to Santa Fe, NM. But wait! Roswell! We have to check out the UFOs and the aliens there, so another detour it is. + +Arriving in Roswell at 4:30pm (wait, make that 3:30pm since the state border between Texas and New Mexico brought us from Central to Mountain time) we park our car and visit the International UFO Museum and Research Center there. It's a bit of a disappointment, we did not see a single alien nor pieces of the "weather balloon" that supposedly crashed in the area. We leave the museum still uncertain whether there is life outside of our planet. + +So it's about 5pm and we're in Roswell, New Mexico. What to do? We're not hungry yet and are still up for some touring. Santa Fe is programmed into the satnav, 193 miles from Roswell. This is mostly the 285 where the speed limit is 70 mph most of the time (75 in some places) so we make good progress and arrive in Santa Fe at 8pm. We check in to the local Motel 6 and ask the friendly lady at the desk for some gastronomical advice, as by now we are quite hungry. She recommends Tortilla Flats which is conveniently close to the motel. After dropping our bags off in the room, we go there and enjoy some very nice fajitas. + +Over dinner we discuss today's travels. We realize that we've driven almost 1000 miles in the 24 hours since we landed at DFW, about 1500 kilometers since we woke up in Weatherford. By now, we're quite experienced roadtrippers :) + +Location: [Santa Fe, NM](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Santa%20Fe,%20NM) + +**Posted by Paul de Weerd at 6:08 AM** + +## 2**12 + +After yesterday's trip, this was of course inevitable: we've hit 4096 miles just now. It's just after 1pm and we're coming up on Thoreau, NM. We're not expecting to hit the next step during this roadtrip :) + +Location : [Continental Divide, NM 87312](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Continental%20Divide,%20NM%2087312) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 12:18 PM** diff --git a/content/blog/_index.md b/content/blog/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1542ea4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +title: 'Blog' +date: 2010-03-01T16:40:33+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +draft: true +menu: + main: + identifier: "blog" + name: "Blog" + weight: 5 +--- diff --git a/content/blog/aerospace-horror-1.md b/content/blog/aerospace-horror-1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b60d4f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/aerospace-horror-1.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: 'Aerospace Horror 1' +date: 2010-04-12T11:02:20+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Aerospace Horror: Part 1 + +So the trick on making a US roadtrip cheaper for half of the participants (Pim) is to make up a great excuse to be in the States at around the time the roadtrip starts :-) It turns out that the bi-annual promotion committee at Google is in April 2010, and I am on that committee. So I decided to fly out to the Bay Area on 4/10, stay there for two weeks, and then do the road trip from 4/24-5/15 with Paul. +OK, so far so good. For some reason or other, my success rate with international travel is extremely poor. There was this one time that our flight was delayed 5hrs (with us in the plane!) because of a set of USRP refugees coming on-board at Paris' CDG, then having to de-ice, and then having to wait in line for take off, and then having the captain find out that there is a hydrolics failure, and then having to taxi back, then having to wait in the plane for the repairman, then having to wait in the plane for the air marshall to sign off on the log, then having to de-ice again (!), and then .. oh wait, that was that one time, but not /this/ time :) + +Right, so I'm in the second leg of our journey, on a plane from JFK to SFO with Alexis and Marina [3yo daughter and girlfriend] and about 30min after we were to depart, the captain says 'Sorry, hydrolics failure, but you can stay onboard while we fix it'. An hour later, 'Sorry, change of plans, it's in your best interest to de-board' and then hanging out for +2hrs creating a 3+ hour delay at the gate. Sigh. Somehow, I always get the screwy flights. AA177 FAIL! + +We landed at the San Francisco airport at around 1am, rented a car (a pretty cool one, a 2010 Ford Taurus with ~3K miles on the odo), and drove our way south to Mountain View, picking up groceries and the apartment keys. We were in bed at around 3am pacific time. Considering we got up at 7am central european time, and we crashed at 3+9=noon the next day, we had pulled a 29hr itinerary. Somehow that doesn't add up .. I hate to travel ZRH-JFK-SFO, I much prefer ZRH-SFO or ZRH-{MUN, FRA, AMS, CDG}-SFO because the long haul flight is so much shorter. + +Anyway, here I am in the corp apt in Mountain View, working for the upcoming two weeks. We already went to Monterey Aquarium yesterday (Sunday), and we all had fun. Paul was a bit jealous :) + + + diff --git a/content/blog/android-test.md b/content/blog/android-test.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..85bd2d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/android-test.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: 'Android Test' +date: 2010-04-18T11:02:52+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Android Test Post + +Okay. Test post... we were in San Jose today, visiting the Happy Hollow zoo and park. It was a great place (they renovated/improved it recently and it really does look nice). A bit unfortunate, that some 5 million other people figured out the same thing and went there too. It was really nice (hot!) weather there, and I took a picture of Marina and Alexis. + +Then, when I got home, I tried to see if I could find an Android application to help me do my blogposts when I'm traveling, and I found one! I'm writing this post with Blogaway v3.8 which I found in the Android market. It asked me to enable Picasa to upload pictures (like this one), which I did. I then in turn found out that Picasa has a build for the Mac - whoa, when did that happen? :) + +Okay, so Blogaway it is then, and as a cool extra feature, it geotags all of the posts done via it, which is what you see below in the Location field. Cool beans! + +Location : [801 Church St, Mountain View, CA 94041](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=801%20Church%20St,%20Mountain%20View,%20CA) diff --git a/content/blog/be-a-part-of-it.md b/content/blog/be-a-part-of-it.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c0b450 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/be-a-part-of-it.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 1: It Starts' +date: 2010-04-25T11:09:40+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## I want to be a part of it... + +It was a great first day on the trip. After i made my way done to baggage claims, it became painfully clear that aa had screwed up the luggage. There were some 30 people without bags and some of them were starting to get upset. Not i... been there, lost the bags (even for good sometimes), so i was not upset at all. After a while the bags showed up on a different conveyorbelt and mine was actually one of the first. Okay, so i took the airtrain to terminal 4. + +I sat there for half an hour or so. Turns out, pauls flight was canceled in ams, but with some amount of pressure he had rebooked from klm to delta, and was only half an hour late or so. I spent the time hanging out on internet, and offeren my phone to a man who had lost his wife somewhere. I did a good thing today, whohoo! + +Paul and i cabbed it from jfk to 250 west 43rd street - the Carter Hotel. We checked in and upgraded our room to a double for ten bucks. We then sniffed up the atmosphere on times sq, quickly decided it sucked, and went downtown to a rodizio eatery. Google found it on 417 lafayette, but when we called nobody picked up. So we decided to go there hoping for a spot... but when we got there, no restaurant. There was a bar, and a rug/tapestry store, but no meat on sticks and we were famished! + +We decided to eat at the first place we found, which was phebe's bar. We had beef burgers and fries (mediocre) and a local ale (yummy). We then cabbed to the regal theatre to watch a flic. It was: kick ass (the title as well as the movie) and we had tonnes of fun. We got out at around 10:30pm, still awake. + +Then we walked up from 13th around union sq, up to 43rd again. At the hotel, we grabbed a beer (well i did anyway) and weird collapsed. He is now loudly snoring in his bed, and i think i will start snoring real soon now, too. + +Tomorrow we hitch a ride to EWR to pick up our car and drive to DC. My alarm is set to 8am. G'night! + +Location : [264 W 40th St, New York, NY 10018](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=264%20W%2040th%20St.%20New%20York,%20NY) + +## Apple for breakfast + +So, here we are. It's 07:44 right now and I just got out of the shower. Pim is still vast asleep, our bioclocks haven't completely synced up just yet. His (and my) alarm will wake him up in 15 minutes, so I have some time for a blogpost. + +It's good to be back in New York, it's been 4 years since my last visit and I feel the same thrill I felt back in 2006. Felt it immediately when I saw the Manhattan skyline while we were on final for JFK. I don't know what it is about this city; it's hot, moist, loud and smells bad all too often, but I really enjoy being here. Now we'll be leaving soon for EWR airport to get our car an d drive to Washington, but we'll spent at least a few more hours here, eating breakfast in the Big Apple. + +We're in for one hell of a ride, and we got off on a great start. + +## Go west! + +And we're on our way! After a very rainy morning in New York where we almost did but didn't visit Madame Tussaud but instead got soaking wet and visited the M&M's megastore and the toys'r'us on Times Square, we took a cab to Newark International Airport and picked up our car: a Jeep Compass. Brand new, only 621 miles on the meter, including fresh new car scent. + +After the first few miles we pulled over for some lunch at the first available service area. BK was on the menu, and somehow our burgers tasted better than the ones we had the night before in Manhattan. We were also on the lookout for an audio cable to plug iPods or phones into the aux input of our car. Not really expecting to find one, we were pleasantly surprised when we stumbled upon just what we needed in the service shop. We also took care of some other important business, affixing a smurf to the windscreen (important ingredient of our roadtrip). + +The first 100 miles are already behind us and now Pim is driving. We're listening to Soundbombing vol. 2 (thanks, bro) and eating smurfs, so the setting is perfect. Obama, here we come (we hope to catch a glimpse of the president when we're in Washington DC). + +## Finally, steak!! + +Sipping a pint of stella in Bobby Van's steakhouse. After failing to find the rodizio in nyc, we decided to try again. We had a fine drive down to dc, but a totally terrible checkin at the motel (some drunk and pee-smelling individual was trying to check in before i was and unfortunately the clerk was marginaLly smarter than the illiterate bumb), but we quickly bombed and went to the inner city. + +It is stunningly beautiful. The architecture is crisp, huge, well maintained and folks here are a bit more friendly than in new york. We walked, what i believe is the usual loop. Washington monument, lincoln memorial (he is big!) and the white house, which unfortunately was blocked off by cops because the president was about to arrive. Anyway, we walked back via the smithsonian(s) and made a plan to visit them tomorrow (at least the space and history museums). + +It then got dark, which our stomachs noticed and well, here we are at bobby's about to dig in on some aged beef steak :) + +I will post some pictures later on, paul had the dslr. + +Location : [1500 H St NW, Washington, DC 20005](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1500%20H%20St%20NW,%20Washington,%20DC%2020005) diff --git a/content/blog/blogging-30000ft.md b/content/blog/blogging-30000ft.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3cb8d70 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/blogging-30000ft.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: 'Blogging 30000ft' +date: 2010-04-24T11:08:39+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +Here i am hurtling at a respectably insane speed of 950kmh in a bright shiny silver tube with wings. I am a bullet. My target is john kennedy. At the same time, paul is hurtling at roughly the same speed but in the other direction, in a blue swan, sort of like nils holgerson, and hopefully (a) without delays, as i am scheduled to land 20min ahead of schedule, and (b) with a better onboard entertainment system than mine because I don't have one :) + +He is going to land at terminal 4, i will land at terminal 8, say goodbye to alexis and marina (who are both taking a nap right now!), and hook up with him in the arrivals hall of T4 in about 3hrs from now. + +With a combined speed of 1900kmh we are rapidly getting closer together. I like that thought, while blogaway is desperately trying to get a GPS lock to find out where I wrote this. + +Location : [800-850 High School Way, Mountain View, CA 94041](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=850%20High%20School%20Way,%20Mountain%20View,%20CA) + + diff --git a/content/blog/canyons.md b/content/blog/canyons.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d8e1f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/canyons.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 14: The Grand Canyons' +date: 2010-05-08T11:54:09+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## The Canyon of all Canyons +This morning we got up at around 8am, leisurely making our way to the Grand Canyon national park. It's about 80mi from Flagstaff, and we got there at around 10:30am. Our first stop was at the local airport, to book ourselves a helicopter flight over the canyons. There were two types, the "short" (25-30min) which went from the south rim to the north rim and back, and the "long" which circled around and tracked both rims for a few miles before changing course (45-50min). The longer one obviously was a bit more expensive, but we both nodded when the question came up: the long one! We're only here once and we may as well do it right. + +The next scheduled flight in a helicopter that sits 7 people was at 12:30pm. So we went off to Tusayan, the neighboring town, to find some brunch, as we had about 90min to kill before we had to check in for our flight. We had a great salad (Pim) and BLT (Paul) at a local cafe and walked back to the car, drove to the airport at 11:45 and hung out there for a bit. At 12:15 our pilot stepped into the room, actually there were five pilots and quite a few folks to take a tour. Our flight had 6 people in it. I took the window seat (better filming position), and Paul graciously took the middle seat (which ended up having spectacular frontal and both sides' view for photos. + + + +The flight was spectacularly awesome. At times, the chopper would yaw and pitch and drop a few feet, but when this happened I was looking at the pilot who was just glancing around the environment and generally enjoying himself, so I figured this is all a part of helicopter flight. I shot a lot of footage (I'll compose a youtube video when I get back home in Zurich, as I do not have iMovie or other editing software on my mac right now). Amongst ourselves we also took about 100 photos - some of them are very very good!! See the picture gallery for details. + +The flight took 53 minutes and 12 seconds (I timed it on my chronograph) and we made our approach, circled around once to let some other traffic pass, and then made our final cleanly and landed very softly indeed. We thanked Joel, our pilot, who immediately picked up a new bunch of folks at 13:45 for the next flight. I ordered the DVD of the in-flight camera system, which made shots of both us in the helicopter, as a frontal view of what we were flying over. The footage is quite good, albeit a bit low resolution. I already have an idea on how I will use it in my to-be-made video of the canyon. + +Then Paul and I hiked to Yavapai lookout (about 2 mi) from the visitor center, but it was kind of busy with a lot of busloads of people (French, Korean, Japanese, ...) babbling and being overly 'present'. So we hopped in the car and drove to Desert View, which is about 25 miles east of the main visitor center. Along the way we stopped at lookout points, which were generally a lot more peaceful, it being early spring and all. When we got to the lookout at Desert View, we filled the car up with gas (very expensive), and drove east bound back to the 98 south to Flagstaff. + +When we got to Flagstaff, we hunted for a bit of food. After trying three different steak houses (one of which looked very promising but they were asking us to wait for 75min and we were famished), we settled for an ordinary diner for burgers and fries. They were delicious!! and the fry-cook came out after we were done to have a chat. We told him about or roadtrip and gave him the URL to our blog - he said he had always wanted to do a roadtrip with his son - and I think he should! it's great fun. + +Anyway, the guy urged us to go see San Diego as well while we're in the LA area. He gave us some good POIs to ponder, and we've already made plans on going from Las Vegas to San Diego, and then up to Los Angeles. It'll be great :) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 11:25 PM** + + diff --git a/content/blog/damn.md b/content/blog/damn.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08a83c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/damn.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 15: Hoover Dam' +date: 2010-05-10T11:55:19+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Hoover Dam + +We took 93 from west i40 after having a late breakfast in Flagstaff. Our trip purposely brought us to the Hoover Dam (which always makes me think fondly of the luitenant penguin from Madagascar, who yells "hoover damn!!" when things go wrong). + +The dam is magnificently large. It has four huge 400ft pillars on the intake side, two flanking overflow ducts the size of a 2 lane motorway, and a breathtaking drop on the egress side. Far below, the colorado river flows violently after dropping through the power station turbines. We took a lot of pictures, see here. + +Yesterday we bought some veggies to make a greek salad, which we ate at the dam, in the car unfortunately because of a high windy gusty situatuon. We didn't want to have the salad fly off our forks :) + +We walked over the bridge and took our time soaking up the stellar views. I can see why americans are proud of this engineering acomplishment. + +When we crossed the state border between AZ and NV, which is dead center of the dam, we saw the head of an 8 mile traffic jam from folks going from nevada to arizona... we were lucky! We just drove up, over and out, no delays whatsoever! + +We then dropped into Las Vegas, which obviously deserves its own posting. + +Location : [3791 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=3791%20Las%20Vegas%20Blvd%20S,%20Las%20Vegas,%20NV%2089109) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 2:46 PM** + diff --git a/content/blog/dfw-rap.md b/content/blog/dfw-rap.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e051d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/dfw-rap.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: 'Dfw Rap' +date: 2010-03-23T11:01:26+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## DFW-RAP booked + +The funniest thing. In our itinerary we are planning to take a trip to the landmark of Mount Rushmore. I of course am a bit of an ass, and I assumed that 'south dakota' means the state would be in the south, but little do I know.. It's kind of funny that we europeans always laugh at the americans for not knowing much about european geography, but I will admit that I too suck at it :) + +OK, so Paul and I are hanging out on the IRC and trying to find a good direct flight from Dallas to Rapid City. It turns out that Mon 3 May - Tue 4 May is very expensive, but then on the other hand if we go back Wed 5 May we're all good for ~160E/250CHF. So we decide to work around the itinerary a bit to fit the good plane tickets. + +Then today, Paul says 'hey did you see we're flying American Eagle?' and I was confused, so I asked him to forward me the tickets. He then says 'tickets? .. dude!' and it then turns out he was assuming that I was booking a flight while he was. Oops :) + +Anyway, flight booked on aa.com, same AA2813 outbound on 3/5/2010, and AA2814 back on 5/5/2010. We're set to go! + +Then, we talked about our first day together in The Big Apple - we decided to Go Cheap, and I happen to know just the place! I booked us a double room in the Carter Hotel. Marina and I stayed there once. It's a cockroachy place (not dissing them, I am fond of cheap hotels, because at least then I get the feeling I get what I paid for!), room booked from Sat 24 - Sun 25. On Sunday we'll be hooking up with our car in EWR. I'm looking forward to it all :) + + diff --git a/content/blog/fipo.md b/content/blog/fipo.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..de730a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/fipo.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: 'Fipo' +date: 2010-03-11T10:59:57+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## FIPO! + +Oh, yes, we are totally there dude. Here's Pim and Paul writing to you from an assorted amount of countries in the European Union (well ..) Pim is currently in Austria, booking flights with his girlfriend and daughter (and oh boy, is this going well, read on below for more details), and Paul is hanging out in the Netherlands, to see if he can match up flights to be in the same place at the same time. + +We are Pim van Pelt and Paul de Weerd, and we have traveled east (from NL to PL), south (from NL to IT), north (from NL to SE) but not yet west (because, well, west means driving into the northern sea and this is not very exciting). + +So we have decided to drive West-with-a-capital-W, and take a road trip from New York to Los Angeles. Yes, we are exicited about this, and are already taking bets on when and where we will be arrested for the first time. + +Pim has tried to book a flight on AA.com, because he's going to be in the SF Bay Area for work related reasons. Pim will be there for ~2 weeks, and then take a 3 week road trip. Because he cannot do without his girlfriend and daughter (awww, I swear: I will use her to get chickie-attention as much as I can :), we'll travel as a family to the US together. Of course, because we now have a terribly complicated itinerary, we'll have to "be creative with AA.com". Here goes: + +* One flight 4/10 ZRH-JFK-SFO, then 4/24 SFO-JFK-ZRH for Alexis and Marina +* One flight 4/10 ZRH-JFK-SFO, then 5/15 SFO-JFK-ZRH for Pim +* One flight 4/24 SFO-JFK (overlapping with Marina/Alexis' home flight) +* One flight 4/24 AMS-JFK (for Paul, landing around the same time Pim lands w/ Alexis/Marina) + +OK, so while this was a bitch to get done, and it took Pim a few (5+ phone calls to the friendly people at AA.com who botched the reserveration), we are now all golden and set to be a go for this trip. + +Next up: rent a car, and dodge the insane one-way fee (people ask $1000 for a delivery in another state, and those people should be shot) + + diff --git a/content/blog/halfway.md b/content/blog/halfway.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7a8a54 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/halfway.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 8: Halfway' +date: 2010-05-02T11:41:37+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Halfway there + +It's not trivial to determine you're halfway on your journey when you don't know exactly how far you're traveling. That's why we defined we would be halfway there when passing 96.207 degrees west (for the first time). This seemingly random value was found by taking the average of the longitudes of New York and Los Angeles (the two red markers on the map). The latitude is of no concern since our route isn't a straight line from NY to LA (we would probably need a few more BHP and 4WD for such a route). + +Anyway, yesterday we discussed being quite close to this milestone and looked up where it would be exactly along our route. Turns out this is just before Donie, TX (the blue marker on the map). And that is exactly where we're at right now. + +Location: [Donie, TX](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Donie,%20TX]) + +**Posted by Paul de Weerd at 8:44 AM** diff --git a/content/blog/horse-in-the-hills.md b/content/blog/horse-in-the-hills.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d843cf --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/horse-in-the-hills.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 10: Horse in the Hills' +date: 2010-05-04T11:46:04+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## The horse in the hills + +After leaving the cramped plane and doing some exercises to get blood flowing again, we find ourselves in Rapid City Airport. A tiny place, compared to the ones we've seen on our trip so far (SFO (for Pim), JFK, DFW, DEN). It's about 5pm mountain time when we land, so we're worried car rental agencies may have already closed their offices for the day so we quickly head in their general direction. Thankfully, they're still open so we approach the first guy who looks like he's got nothing else to do. Sadly, no cars. Second company - same story. We start fearing for the worst: how are we going to get to Mt Rushmore without a car!? + +We give Hertz a try and are glad to learn that they still have a few cars available. For 80$ a day we can drive around in another SUV. However, the alternative is a 5$ upgrade to a Ford Mustang. "Yes!" we exclaim in unison, that is exactly the car we need. We had already decided that we wanted to rent an American Muscle car and either the 'stang or the Camaro would be the perfect choice. Even better: this one was a convertible. Beautiful icing. + +We head out to the parking lot and inspect our car. It is awesome. We love it. A photoshoot is called for, so check it out on Picasa. Then we start driving around. Rapid City turns out to be quite small (at roughly 67K inhabitants) so we quickly head out in the direction of the Black Hills. Inevitably ending up at Mt Rushmore National Memorial, we pay our respects to Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt and walk around the memorial (again shooting lots of pictures). Pim wanted to make some night time pictures (which turned out very nice) so we ended up leaving the memorial after 9pm. A quick McD's for dinner and some shopping at Walmart later we check into Motel 6. Quickly off to sleep since we want to get up early next morning for more sight seeing. + +Our 7am alarm wakes us to an overcast Rapid City. With this weather, there's no hope we'll be making better photos at the Mt Rushmore Memorial, so we head of to Crazy Horse. It's SUPER BIG. Amazing. Still not finished, but very impressive already. A bit sad we couldn't get very close to it. Another downside was the temperature, at 35 degrees Fahrenheit we were freezing! There even was a thin layer of snow. But we're now able to say we were there. + +We drove around the beautiful Black Hills in our Mustang and headed to Wyoming. On our way there, we passed by the Jewel Cave. Not wanting to pass up the opportunity, we stopped here and signed up for a tour. Quite the disappointment: we got on an elevator that went down some 300 feet. After entering a pretty big cave and listening to the guide tell us about its origins we had to get back to the elevator to go upstairs again. The cave looked very impressive and Pim and I were excited to explore further but the platform was all we were going to get. Major bummer, so we left disappointed. + +We continued on the 16 to Wyoming and visited Newcastle. After Newcastle, we went down south and drove back into South Dakota via Edgemont and Hot Springs. The temperature was rising so we opened the top again. Cruise mode engaged. We drove to Custer State Park and did the 18 mile Wildlife loop. The Black Hills themselves are quite stunning already but this part was truly breathtaking. We encountered lots of deer, buffalo, burros and pronghorns. Cruising at 20 mph with the top down and the sun shining this was some quality nature time. + +When we got back to Rapid City, it was around 6:30pm - a perfect time to get some dinner in a diner. Luckily, there is a diner about 100ft away from our Motel6 spot, so we went to Arnold's diner for burgers and fries. We're turning in early tonight, we've had quite a bit of travel behind us, and we'd like to be all fresh tomorrow morning, so we can get our 2pm flight back to DFW. + +Galleries: Rapid City and Black Hills (and Wyoming, too) and Our Mustang + +Location: [620 Latrobe Ave, Rapid City, SD](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=620%20Latrobe%20Ave,%20Rapid%20City,%20SD) + +**Posted by Paul de Weerd at 8:26 PM** + + diff --git a/content/blog/icelandic-worries.md b/content/blog/icelandic-worries.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c895836 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/icelandic-worries.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: 'Icelandic Worries' +date: 2010-04-18T11:07:12+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Icelandic Eruption + +OMG that was some eruption! I'm sitting here safely in California, but Paul is not yet here. All of the (respectable) news sites carefully avoid saying when the various officials will clear the european and trans atlantic airspace again.. and the less respectable places mention "weeks" rather than "days". Next Saturday 4/24 is when I'm supposed to hitch a flight from SFO to JFK (Marina and Alexis will continue from JFK to ZRH), and Paul is supposed to fly in from AMS to JFK on that same Saturday (actually, thanks to careful planning, our flights both land at 4pm and 4:05pm, which is kind of cool). + +Well, it'd be cool if it actually happens. Right now, I'm a bit worried that both flights of Paul and Marina/Alexis are not delayed, cancelled, rerouted, or worse [ie they take off but eat the dust]. So I really do hope that the volcano stops blurting out ash and crap. Enough is enough, Gaia, you made your point! :) + + + diff --git a/content/blog/nashville.md b/content/blog/nashville.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..245a2f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/nashville.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 4: Nashville' +date: 2010-04-28T11:23:07+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Knoxville? No, Nashville!!1 + +Paul and I woke up this morning at around 8:30am after noticing yesterday that we crossed a timezone and are now at central time. We were in Gordonsville this morning, and took an easy drive down to Nashville TN. Chris D said we had to check it out, because Knoxville was boring. + +I'm now no longer sure he was trying to compare Knoxville to Nashville ... because while quite large, the city's features are, well, not exciting. We must've been doing it all wrong: we used the internet to find the top places to go and visit - we saw Bell Meade's, General Jackson's showboat and the main attraction of the city (according to some, that is): the country music hall of fame and museum. So we decided to check it out! + +$44 and about 35 minutes later, we paid our respects to the many plaques and golden/platinum records that were on display. We also listened to some authentic recordings, and watched some oldskool video recordings from the early days of country music. + +We tried to call my buddy Chris D who recommended Nashville (which, hey, is only 170 miles detour for us), but he wasn't online or near a phone. We then commenced just making random decisions at intersections, and drove up and down town a fair bit. We were told that the Ryman auditorium was "historically cool since 1892", so we also looked at it. After looking, we bolted for the door and hauled ass out on 65 south destined for Birmingham, AL. We'll have some lunch there and drive through to New Orleans. + +An important factoid: We seem to have lost a part of our Strumpf. His head is still sticking to the windshield, but unfortunately his torso and lower section have fallen victim to the elements. Please don't tell him this, but we do have a replacement Strumpf so we will not lose sleep over this. + +Location: [65 southbound near McEwan Dr, Nashville, TN](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=McEwan%20Dr,%20Nashville,%20TN) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 9:30 AM** + +## Visiting our old friend Jack + +We were in Nashville, you know, the place to be according to Chris D, and after dwelling for a bit, we decided to take off south bound to New Orleans and see how far we'd get. Today we should have been touring one of the *villes (Knox or Nash), so we're actually on free time and it's vacation so we are all motivated to do something fun. + +We're driving on 65 south and Pauls attention is drawn towards a sign of the Jack Daniel's distillery. We think about for a little bit, and actually draw the conclusion that this isn't for us because Paul doesn't drink any alcohol and I shy away from american whiskey. But somehow we consider it compelling to go on a tour of the distillery none the less, and boy are we glad we did! + +The drive was about 30mi east of 65 in a little town of Lynchburg TN. The town itself literally smells of whiskey while we rocked up to the visitors center. Turns out, the tour is free of charge - Paul and I figured that's probably because the whiskey is a little bit too expensive, but hey, we're not one to turn down a free tour. The guy was pleasant, jolly and full of whiskey tales. We visited the spring in which it all began - they don't really know where the water comes from, but they don't care becaue the 140 proof spirits will kill off everything anyway. + +We visited the old shack where Mr. Jack had his office, the well (see picture), the mash room where the grain, rye, corn are mashed and fermented, the distillery room, the mellowing room (where the whiskey spirit is drawn through charcoaled wood to mellow out and become smoother, I didn't know this!), the barrel house and the bottling room - the whole nine yards. I loved every second of it!!! + +Paul picked up a bottle of single cask Jack, but I respectfully did not because I'd be tempted to open and drink it, which may get us in to trouble (open container laws, and so on). + +After we left, we went to a grocery store (a pretty big wal*mart), and I bought some ingredients to make my 'famous greek salad' - red onion, a cucumber, some crumbled feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, olives and greek peppers. I made them while driving around a bit, and we enjoyed the greek salad sitting in the grass of a public library at the Alabama state border. + +Location: [US 65 southbound near Falkville AL](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Falkville%20AL) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 2:45 PM** + + +## Ribs and a $29 motel + +After leaving Jack Daniel and his wonderful distillery, we made our way back to the US 65 and drove south to Birmingham AL, then hitched onto US-59 West towards Mississippi - the state that we constantly misssspppell. The driving was remarkably smooth and we're allowed to go 70 mph on these roads. I pushed on the cruise control and we made our way to Livingston until we got hungry and were in need of nourishment. + +We were also in need of gas - we filled up at $2.83 per gallon - for us a really high price as we're generally paying $2.69 or some such. We took a look around but there was only a Subway sandwich bar near the gas station, and otherwise not much. However, there was a sign for a mexican restaurant called 'Tres Hermanos' pointing 0.5 mi down the road, so we took that for lack of anything other. When I drove down that way, I noticed a building with lots of cars in front of it. Paul pointed out that this was a grill/bbq/seafood place called Diamond Jim's. We figured that the amount of cars parked here must mean something, so we went in. + +We ordered a rack of spare ribs each, but our server [a very very cute girl who looked a bit like Lindsay Lohan in her better years] did not believe we would eat one rack each. So I watered mine down to half a rack, and coleslaw on the side. We ate and ate, and we did our best to finish them. Paul actually did - finish one full rack of 12 ribs [by the way, these ribs are HUGE], and I whimped out at the last of my 6 ribs. I am a boy, Paul is a man. He eats ribs like crazy :) + +We spent $33 on the meal and we decided to tip the pretty girl $9, equalling the universally true number of 42. It's the way of things... then, we drove on to Meridian MS, crossed the Alabama/Mississippi state border, and found a motel that is very cheap indeed: $29 plus taxes, making $36.20. It is truely low budget, with a sort of a funky smell and relatively, but not entirely, clean. We're brushing our teeth with bottled water tonight! + +Location: [Economy Inn at Meridien MS](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Economy%20Inn%20at%20Meridien,%20MS) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 8:03 PM** diff --git a/content/blog/new-orleans.md b/content/blog/new-orleans.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e81422 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/new-orleans.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 5: New Orleans' +date: 2010-04-29T11:29:39+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## 2**11 + +Whoohooooot! + +It is around 8:40 central time and we have passed 2048 mark. It feels like just yesterday that we crossed the 1024 mark. We are pretty sure that our next mark at 4096 will take a while but it is inevitable too :-) + +Location : [Paulding, MS 39348](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Paulding,%20MS) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 6:44 AM** + +## Steamboat and Gumbo Pot + + +We arrived at New Orleans pretty early, around noon. I had checked us in to a hotel just off the airport at great rates, not knowing that actually there are two airports, one near city center and one int'l airport quite a far bit off. Not to worry tho, we checked in and 25min later we parked at the Westin hotel exactly opposite the casino. We walked over the riverside park to the french quarter and had a late lunch in the Gumbo Pot. + +I have had better :) i think they just forgot Paul's order because when it finally came out (45min), myshrimp were rubber, the shell dried up and at disintegration point, but his fish was tasty. Oh well, at least we had the Josty-band type steam organ music to keep the annoyance, err, amusement level at a constant climaxial high. + +I like the weather though, it feels about 25C in the shade, and a lot hotter in the sun. From the french quarter in New Orleans, LA, we salute you! + +Location : [517 St Louis St, New Orleans, LA 70130](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=517%20St%20Louis%20St,%20New%20Orleans,%20LA%2070130) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 12:15 PM** + +## Hand grenades and pirates blood + +It is nice over here in new orleans' french quarter. We walked up and down Bourbon street after a tip from a guy in the parking garage, but somehow i think we would've found it all by ourselves. + +We're in a bar called the funky pirate, yarrrr, the home of the famous Hand Grenade. What's in it, we do not know. However we have it on good authority by our barman Dave that if you drink 4, you will be dancing on the streets and women will show their tits (or be asked to, it is not clear) but if you drink 5 you will die. So i ordered a pint because we have 16 more days to go. + +There is a guy playing guitar and singing, very nicely, and the folks at the bar are pleaseant and only slighly drunk. All in all we are doing a good job here. + +I have a peculiar feeling that my next blogpost will be in a drunken state. I apologize in advance :) + +Location : [210 Baronne St, New Orleans, LA 70112](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=210%20Baronne%20St,%20New%20Orleans,%20LA%2070112) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 2:23 PM** diff --git a/content/blog/numbers.md b/content/blog/numbers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..331ee84 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/numbers.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +--- +title: "It's a wrap: Numbers" +date: 2010-05-17T12:00:59+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Numbers + +And we're back home. Wow, what a blast! Fortunately, the flights back (SFO - JFK for both of us and then JFK - AMS for me and JFK - ZRH for Pim) were quite boring and uneventful, even with American operating 2 out of 3 of these (those flights were, of course, overbooked again but neither Pim nor myself was denied boarding). It also seems we got back just in time - AMS is closed for business today because of Icelandic volcanic ashes. + +During our trip we kept track of some numbers for posterity. We got our Jeep Compass with a full tank of gas at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday, April 25th with 623 miles on the odometer. We returned it (again with a full tank of gas) at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, May 15th at the 5.637 mark. Our second car, the Ford Mustang, we received with 20.526 miles behind it and was returned at 20.903. This brings the total distance traveled by car (not counting taxi fares) to (5.637 - 623) + (20.903 - 20.526) = 5.014 + 377 = 5.391 miles or 8.676 kilometers (8.6 megameter). One fifth of the circumference of the earth at the equator in 20 days! That averages to 270 miles per day (the distance between Las Vegas and Los Angeles). + +However, we did not drive at the equator (where one fifth would equate to a difference of 72 degrees longitude). We went from EWR (longitude 74,2 West) to SFO (longitude 122,4 West), only 48,2 degrees difference in longitude. A crow's flight from EWR to SFO measures 2.562,56 miles, so our "detour" basically doubled the traveling distance (for every mile the crow flies, we drove two). + +Some domestic flights were also called for. Although we ended up with more of those than we bargained for (yep, we love taking cheap stabs at AA every chance we get) this also added to our total distance traveled. In total, there were 5 domestic flights during our trip (not counting frivolous helicopter flights through Grand Canyon or our inbound and outbound flights before and after the roadtrip): + +Date traveled | From | To | Distance +----------------|-------|-------|----------- +May 3rd | DFW | DEN | 640 +May 3rd | DEN | RAP | 300 +May 5th | RAP | DEN | 300 +May 5th | DEN | DFW | 640 +May 15th | SFO | JFK | 2584 +Total | | | 4464 + + +In the end, we drove more than we flew. That's good, because we also spent quite a bit more time in the two cars than in airplanes (and this was a road trip afterall). + +Of course, driving 5.391 miles does not come cheap. We stopped for gas twice with the Mustang and 20 times with the Jeep. Fortunately, at somewhere between 2,60 and 3,40 dollar per gallon, gas in the US costs about 35%-40% of what it costs in Europe. + + + +Car | Odo start | Odo end | Miles | Gallons | MPG +----------------|---------------|---------------|-------|---------------|---------- +Jeep Compass | 623 | 911 | 288 | 11,2 | 25,71 +' | 911 | 1155 | 244 | 9,497 | 25,69 +' | 1155 | 1421 | 266 | 11,059 | 24,05 +' | 1421 | 1696 | 274,7 | 10,407 | 26,4 +' | 1696 | 1980 | 284,3 | 11,17 | 25,45 +' | 1980 | 2260 | 279,9 | 11,21 | 24,97 +' | 2260 | 2455 | 194,5 | 7,41 | 26,25 +' | 2455 | 2669 | 214,2 | 7,931 | 27,01 +' | 2669 | 2923 | 254,2 | 9,627 | 26,4 +' | 2923 | 3232 | 308,2 | 11,794 | 26,13 +' | 3232 | 3478 | 246,5 | 9,802 | 25,15 +' | 3478 | 3666 | 187,5 | 8,893 | 21,08 +' | 3666 | 3928 | 262,2 | 11,323 | 23,16 +' | 3928 | 4170 | 242 | 9,177 | 26,37 +' | 4170 | 4443 | 272,9 | 10,791 | 25,29 +' | 4443 | 4716 | 272,7 | 10,128 | 26,9 +' | 4716 | 5007 | 290,5 | 10,74 | 27,0 +' | 5007 | 5309 | 301,9 | 11,804 | 25,58 +' | 5309 | 5595 | 286,6 | 12,162 | 23,57 +' | 5595 | 5623 | 27,6 | 0,908 | 30,4 +' | 5623 | 5637 | 14,7 | N/A | N/A +Totals Jeep | - | - | 4998,4| 197,033 | 25,4 +Ford Mustang | 20526 | 20845 | 318,8 | 13,097 | 24,34 +' | 20845 | 20903 | 58,3 | 2,501 | 23,31 +Totals Ford | - | - | 377,1 | 15,598 | 24,2 +**Combined** | - | - | **5375,5**| **212,631** | **25,28** + + +So an average mileage of 25.3 MPG (10.7 km per liter) - not too bad. 212.6 gallons (805 liters) of gas for the entire trip. + +**Posted by Paul de Weerd at 8:56 AM** diff --git a/content/blog/rapid-city.md b/content/blog/rapid-city.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..110733c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/rapid-city.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 9: Rapid City' +date: 2010-05-03T11:43:29+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Did I hear you say Colorado? + +This morning we got up at 7:30am bright and early, to make sure that we were on time at the airport to get our 12:15 flight to Rapid City SD. Our travels to the airport were very light, we got there with minimal traffic, parked our trusty Jeep at the 'express south' parking spot, and made our way directly to the B10 gate where our flight was scheduled to take us to South Dakota. We got at the gate at around 8:20 - oops, a little bit earlier than expected, but hey fine, we can wait, it's a good change from all that driving we're doing. + +OK, so we sit, wait, flip through the internet, get bored, wait some more, do some walking instead of sitting, call Marina and Alexis (who, again, was watching a movie and stating she had no desire to converse ...), and then it was time to board - 11:45am. We rock up to the gate, show our boarding passes, and then thunder strikes: the flight is overbooked, we are the last ones to board, and we do not have a seating assignment. + +Wait, what? We bought our tickets in March, got our boarding passes yesterday, and got at the gate about 17 million hours before departure, and you're telling me: WHAT? + +Well, of course there's no fighting american airline companies, and although both of us are already excited by the new travel opportunities ahead of us, we played it cool as ice, and put on our pissed-off-faces. The girl comped us $200 each in AA travel vouchers, and rebooked us via Denver CO and on to continental through to Rapid City SD... the total delay is around 3.5hrs, on account of a 1hr layover in Denver. + +But hey, we figure: we have screwed AA more than they have screwed us! We both paid less than 200 bucks for our ticket, and we now get two flights for the price of one (but to be honest, I am not sure if I really like this prospect), we get to see more airports, and burn more fuel. Paul also mentions that we get more dots on the map when the Droid finds GPS and tells Google all about, our where, abouts (did you note the Austin Powers reference?). + +All in all, we are cheerfully claiming we get the better part of the deal. We'll celebrate with a wonderful dining experience at TGI.Fridays at the A terminal in DFW :) + +The weirdest thing though: I briefly had a very strange set of emotions. On the one hand, I was quite pissed off at American for screwing up the flight and overselling it, letting those who committed early suffer. And on the other hand, I was pretty excited because on a road trip with Paul and Pim, we thrill at the sight of excitement like this :) + +Our new flights: +1. American 441: Dallas leaving at 1:45pm, to Denver arriving 2:50pm. +2. Continental 7789: Denver leaving at 3:55pm, to Rapid City arriving 4:58pm. + +ps: we do not have a seat assignment yet for the second flight. I'm sort of counting on them saying "sorry, we're overbooked, but we can fly you back over our hub in Dallas tx if you'd like?" + +Location: [Dallas, TX](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Dallas,%20TX) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 10:26 AM** + + +## Blogging at 15.000ft + + +Well well, our little detour to Denver Colorado was very enjoyable indeed. At DFW, when we got out of the TGIF's, we were met at the gate by Lisa, the AA employee that broke us the bad news over at gate B10. We feare for the worst, thereby double-jinxing it, and she explained that she had made a mistake which her supervisor told her to rectify.... + +The thing is, the $200 voucher we got, should have been a $315 voucher! Additionally, we could also opt to get a $208 check in the mail! Paul chose eggs for his money (sic), and opted for the check. I had dollarsigns in both of my eyes, and chose the voucher. + +Lisa then asked for Pauls mail address, and tried her best to get my voucher printed. This of course took for ever, with apologies all around, and some calling of techsupport. But eventually, she pushed the correct buttons on her terminal, and the printer did its thing. Paul was told that his check would be waiting for him in Denver. + +Then we flew to Denver and when we got there, Paul asked at the gate if he could get his cheddar. Of course, this was hard, because the girl at the desk was not authorized to hand out checks. So in stead of risking yet another delay or missed flight, we went over to B56 in Denver where our connecting flight was. + +We looped around ticketing to get our boardingpasses, which were given to us by a friendly guy called Glenn. We chatted a bit about the Icelandic ash, and made our way to the gate. + +This plane is tiny! It seats 50 and looks about the same size as a school bus :) but I am happily blogging at 15.000ft altitude. + +Location : [1490 John St, Rapid City, SD 57701](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1490%20John%20St,%20Rapid%20City,%20SD%2057701) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 5:26 PM** + diff --git a/content/blog/rapid-incompetence.md b/content/blog/rapid-incompetence.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d68aa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/rapid-incompetence.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 11: Rapid Incompetence' +date: 2010-05-05T11:48:12+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Rapid Incompetence - 5+5=10 + + +This cup of "coffee" is very important to me. Today has been a wonderful display of bad luck. It started in the early morning and stayed with us like the odor of a dead skunk. This blog post will be sarcastic. It will be a display of bad language. The reason is that I just don't know how to use good words to describe what happened to us today. Please forgive me in advance. + +1. This morning started out kind of alright. We got up at 8-ish and decided to go to the Wendy's for breakfast. The funny thing is that when Marina and I were in Hawaii I was caught on (a youtube) video mixing up Wendy's and Denny's while we were enjoying lunch there. Today, I mixed it up the other way around; I made us go to Wendy's (a burger joint) while in fact I wanted us to go to Denny's (a diner with eggs/bacon semi healthy breakfast). So we detoured and went to the Denny's, which obviously, was about 2 minutes walk from our motel. Obviously we didn't mind, but here is where the Bad Day started. + +2. After breakfast, we went off to find a USPS because the clerk in the Walmart had the hardest time finding us a set of stamps for europe when we bought our postcards. We used The Googles to find it - it said that there was a USPS office on 500 East blvd, so we punched it in only to find out when we got "there" that there was a rather empty lot and nothing to do. So we ended up driving around for 30 minutes finding a USPS - we eventually did and mailed our cards (to our families and relatives, so no, you're not getting one). + +3. It was only 10am now, and our flight leaves at 2:10pm so we have oodles of time. Plenty, I tell you. HA! I now hear you thinking "oh they screwed up and missed their flight because they thought they had plenty of time". No. This is not what happened. We played it all by the book, but more about that later. Please bear with me while I build up the climax storyline. We decided to go to a place called "The Chapel in the Woods" - I had seen a picture on Google Maps' localtrends, and it looked kind of nice. I figured I'd go out and take my own pictures. + +When we got there, we were greeted by a gentleman of age, who explained to us that this was a norwegian chapel from about 850 years ago which was rebuilt in Rapid City in 1969. It really is beautiful (see picture), so I took out the fisheye and the wide angle DSLRs (yes, I have two, isn't that jetset?) and rocked up to take some nice frames. Oops - no memorycard. Shit! I must've forgotten them in the motel, because this is the first thing we've done today, and yesterday night I uploaded a bunch of pictures of the Black Hills. So I call the lady at the motel and ask if she would please check up for us. She checks and says that they cannot find anything. With all due respect, I ask her if it's okay if I come over myself to look - I am 99% positive that they are in the room somewhere, say, behind the bed. + +We take some Android pictures, me feeling a bit sorry for not having better kit, and knowing I'll probably never be back here again, and drive back to the motel. It must be my lucky day (but later, I'll find out it's in fact NOT my lucky day). They found them behind the bed indeed, and give'm back to me. I'm very happy, and we set off for the airport at noon. We fill up the car with gas and drive to RAP. This all goes well. So far, so good, eh? + +4. We arrive at the check-in desk at 12:30pm. The reason I know this, is that the self-service check-in kiosk kindly told me to see an agent, because they could not assign me a seat. I remember hearing this before... and the gentleman before us, a canadian hockey player, was just being told while all of this happens, that there are no more seats available and that he'll have to go on stand by. So are we. We are being told, again, for the second time in 72 hours, that we are not going to be flying on a plane that we bought tickets for in March, and we checked in for several hours in advance. Oh my fucking god. + +Now the problem with all of this is that American (Eagle) just started flying to RAP on the 6th of April. They even had a banner boasting a non-stop from RAP to ORD and DFW - so obviously they are proud of this achievement. The ground crew seems fresh as grass, and everything is moving very slowly. This is not their fault, and actually it doesn't matter much because there's absolutely nothing to do at the gates, so we're patient and wait together with the Canadian dude who is consierably more upset than we are. + +In Dallas, on the way out here, the attendant (Lisa) was very quick to rebook us to United Express to DEN and on to RAP. It took her all of 5 minutes, and she apologized and offered us a $200 voucher as a compensation. She then ran out to the other terminal to find us, to tell us that actually it should've been a $315 voucher, or $208 check. As we flew out to DEN, the check was not there, we'd have to go out to the main terminal, get the check authorized by a supervisor, and risk missing our flight. So we had a note set in Paul's itinerary so that the check would be handed out in RAP. + +OK, so here we are, at RAP, without a flight and with a check to write. Unfortunately for us, for the first hour or so, nobody seems to be able to actually perform this task. They are calling left, right, and center, and are even namecalling on the phone (not to us, but to their compadres elsewhere who are trying to help them settle this). Finally, about an eternity later, we are seeing a supervisor being dictated by phone what to write on the check. She hands it over, happily. + +But now, we still have the matter of the second bump of the week. We make our way to gate 7, where we are being put on the standby list. It turns out, like in Dallas on Monday, there is only one seat. I decline - it makes no sense for me to fly to DFW only to get there not knowing when, and if, Paul will make it too. This is silly. Another passenger walks up and is trying to get on - so the flight is now fully booked with 50 people and all is well. + +In the mean while, and this is amazing, there are three people trying to get us another flight. I walk over to gate 3, where there's a man from united checking in a 3:40pm flight to DEN, and I ask him if the flight's full. Nope, he says, and he'd be happy to put me on that flight and connect me to DFW. He performs this action in about 72 seconds, so I walk back to the supervisor at gate 7 and tell her the great news. She now walks off, aiming to get me on this flight. + +About an hour and a half later, when the UE flight to DEN is boarding, we start to lose our patience, so we exit the gate area, go back to the check-in, and are told we're not on this, but on a 5:20pm flight to DEN, connecting to DFW, and landing us at about 10:30pm (which is 5hrs later than planned). However, she cannot check us in, we'll have to go to the United desk and check in. We do this, and the girl there checks us in in about 38 seconds and hands us both boarding psses. Thank you, United girl :) + +OK, now the matter of compensation. This turns out to be terribly difficult for the American Eagle people. After much waiting, I would think about 45 minutes of it, the supervisor comes back only to confirm with us that we indeed gave up the one spot and decided to travel together, and because Paul and I both have different itineraries, that means we both forfeited and do not have a right to compensation for American's fuckup. You gotta be kidding me?! + +Blood temperature now starts rising a few degrees. Let me rehash this for you: American oversells the flight. We are in at 1h40m ahead of time and are denied boarding and put on a standby list. We're then told only one spot is available, which we punt because we must travel together. We're then later told that, hey, you gave up your spot, both of you, so you are on your own. + +Now comes the interesting bit - generally I'm the hothead (between Paul and I, I mean), but Paul loses it for a bit when the supervisor says that she went through all this trouble to rebook us, and that this costs American money. He steps out for a bit while I dismiss the ludicrous and insulting concept of us having to be thankful for being rebooked after being fucking denied boarding - obviously by overselling the flight, American already attempted the gamble, hoping that they'd sell seats for passengers that didn't show up, and in this case, they lost the gamble but our super here is trying to act as if we should be grateful. Either this lady is desperate, or she is very, very stupid. I am thinking it is likely a good bit of both. + +OK, so on Monday exactly this happened, exactly this (one seat left over while we were on standby, we passed, got rebooked in 5 minutes and compensated for our trouble and American Airlines' lost gamble on overselling AA2814) and now on Wednesday, the same thing happens on AA2813 and we're told to just suck it up and lose 5 hours of our time, as well as several years of our life staying calm and collective. I just don't accept it, so I make her call her boss again. Now, she tells me "but why on earth would you check in so late?" and all of her cow-orkers confirm that we were here quite early and that there were about 20 people who checked in with seats /after us/. We are now offered a $100 travel voucher on AA. I want the full amount, $208 cash or $315 voucher - which I've painfully learned not 2 days ago. So somebody calls a main AA office, and the supervisor says she wants to take the call in another room and bolts for the door. + + +... + +What happens in the room is unknown to me, but I figure that the supervisor in RAP was not willing to admit freely that AA fucked up, victimized us, not once but twice. She comes back out saying we're out of luck, she's out of time, and tells one of the other girls there to finish up the voucher. Take it or leave it. And besides, our plane is about to board, so we ran out of time too. + +Now, I folded an origami crane bird for the two folks (you know who you are!) and thanked them for their time. All in all, they spent the greater part of the afternoon trying to make things right - but their overly bureaucratic super, cleverly hiding behind "the main office in Fuckistan", would not help us. Yeah right. +Now, to close the loop on my story, back to the "coffee". The cool thing about such a small one-terminal, single-digit gate airport is that it's really easy to get to know the locals. There was one kiosk where we were waiting earlier this afternoon, and we had a sandwich and some coffee there. There was only one security point, and the folks there were having fun with us too - 'hey welcome back guys, we saw your twins pass by, not two hours ago!', all in all a jolly bunch. + +The woman who served us the sandwhiches earlier offered me a cup of coffee on her, because she felt bad for what had happened. However, a guy had just ordered a beer and I thought that would agree with me as well. So I got one, slammed it down (and boy did it taste good), and then ordered another one. By that time, boarding had commenced and while the woman was chatting with a local security guard. Well, my bottles of Heineken were not allowed on the plane, so I walked over to the coffee stand, got a to-go-cup, theatrically poured my bottle of beer into the cup, capped it, and took a sip. + +The guard goes to the server: "Whoa, that has got to be the most awesome thing I have seen here, ever" and winks at me. I am genuinely pleased, for the first time today. I get on the plane, put my cup on the armrest, and settle myself. Actually, this plane is about half-full, and unbalanced, so the front 4 rows are asked to disperse and go sit further to the back. I get my stuff, and the flight attendant asks me "sir, is this your coffee?" and I politely reply "Yes, but eh, not exactly." Two people behind me start to giggle and ask me why I said that. I whisper "It's beer." and wink to them. They think I am awesome. I am now genuinely pleased, for the second time today. + +Somehow, no matter how hard I get screwed by airline companies, there's always interaction with real humans, not super-bureau-droids, that makes me happy again. + +Our flight to DEN and onwards to DFW were fine. They were with United Express. + + +Location : [221 N Main St, Euless, TX 76039](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=221%20N%20Main%20St,%20Euless,%20TX%2076039) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 8:37 PM** + + diff --git a/content/blog/ready-steady-go.md b/content/blog/ready-steady-go.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..235c7b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/ready-steady-go.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: 'Ready Steady Go' +date: 2010-04-23T11:07:46+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Ready, steady, ... + +**GO!!** + +I'm sitting here in the corp apartment in Mountain View (CA) and I've found an ultimately cool widget that you can see on the left hand panel of the blog - it shows you the exact location (to the street level) of the Droid with Froyo 'special sauce image' I borrowed from my buddy at Google (thanks, Charles!!). We have tweaked the phone to send a location update every 60s (unless the battery is low, and then it sends once every 180s). At the end (or possibly while we're on the road), I'll post a KML of our track, or a PNG static map or something - just to show how you can use Latitude and mobile phones to do this type of "mytracks" action. + +Marina and I have packed, carefully making sure that my bag will contain the right stuff needed to start the roadtrip (for example, 2lbs of skittles, a 12V-110V inverter for the car, lotsa cables, credit cards, and so on). + +One other thing, I must say that I have such an amazing company to work for. I was telling one of the Street View folks I met with this week about my pending trip - she was really excited and asked me (very politely) if I were willing to take a camera with me to make some special format pictures for Maps. Hell yeah!! So I am now also equipped with two 15Mpix DSLRs, one 7mm fish eye and one standard issue 18-55mm lens, tripod, 10 or so 8GB SD cards [what were they thinking :)], a video camera and all the accessories. + +What I'll do is this: The tripod has a rotating head that has 4 notches, one every 90 degrees. I am to put the fish eye in the rotating head, and take 12 pictures, 4 in each direction, and each direction in 3 different exposures. Google then will stitch these pictures together to create a 360 degree seemless view of my inner (or outer) space environment. I plan on taking quite a few photos, logging their GPS location, and offering them to the team as a special photo shoot reel. Even my VP, Brian, got excited about this, as he had done this on his Antarctica trip. Whohoo! + +Well, I'm going to hit the hay soon, as I get up at 4am tomorow morning to fetch my 7am flight to JFK. Here's hoping that WEiRDJE has a good and non-delayed trip, too! + + + diff --git a/content/blog/rockets.md b/content/blog/rockets.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69e7414 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/rockets.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 7: Rockets' +date: 2010-05-01T11:36:29+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Smurfs, Swamps and Space + + +We are laying lazily in the grass at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas. Let me share with you how we got here. + +This morning we got up at around 7:45, had breakfast at the Comfort Inn at New Orleans int'l airport, filled up the car with gas, and headed west on 10. This is one helluva long straight road, one might argue a 100 mile bridge, because the whole thing is a 4 lane freeway on poles crossing a huge swamp. + +Along the way we noticed that our trusty rusty Strumpf had decided to leave us. Not to worry though, I grabbed a new one and stuck it in the old smurf-juice. It obviously did not like its new spot on the windshield because it flew off within a few minutes. Paul then did it again and that smurf is still there. + +I suggested to take a look at the Nasa spacecenter in Houston so we drove there, arriving at about 3pm. We were a bit worried that it would be closed because today is Labor day and all, so we called. We got a nice voicemail system asking us to call back on Monday... oops, but then we decided to just come take a look at the exterior. + +We were in luck though, because it was open after all! The space center was okay i guess, but i had expected more - the Smithsonian was a little bit more elaborate and the coolest vehicles (quite a few capsules) were the real thing, ie the stuff that was actually used, but then again, those were all borrowed from the Smithsonian. This made us wonder why though .. isn't Nasa the original owner of the capsules and space vehicles? Apparently not. Then we also took a tour, which led us to mission control, where IIS was being tracked over Australia, and we saw live streams from it on a big screen, which was very cool. + +We also went to the rocket park, where a Saturn V rocket was on display, and several rocket engines. Those were kind of awesome :) so I am very happy that we decided to drive a few miles (70mi or so) more to take the scenic I-10. Yaay texas. + +Location : [2nd St, Houston, TX 77058](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2nd%20St,%20Houston,%20TX%2077058] + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 2:47 PM** + +## OMG: steak and cheesecake + +It is around 9pm and we are at Morton the steakhouse in downtown Houston. After the NASA tour we did today, we decided to go for a real steak in the city en route up north to Dallas. + +Morton has a varying set of reviews on the internet, but as far as the bad ones go: fuck 'em. Why the strong language? Because I am the one who has been devouring a "le cigare volant" 2006 from the Napa valley, all by my wonderful self so I am excused. + +Paul had a smoked pacific salmon while I competed with a tuna tartare. We both tried the other's dish and interestingly: we both prefered our own! But mine was better ;-) + +Then on to the main course, the entree: a double cut filet mignon for me, and a similarly sized filet mignon on the bone for Paul. Mine was truely excellent, with peppercorn-brandy sauce on the side. His was a bit chilly, because he ordered it cooked rare... oh well. It really was wonderful meat though and we both enjoyed it very much. + +Then for desert - Paul had ordered the apple pie beforehand because it took 40min to prepare. It is delicious he is telling me. I did not plan on ordering, until they showed me a piece of new york cheese cake. Sorry carbs... you'll have to wait! But OMG, it it delicious too. Not too sweet, very delicate, and Paul is trying it now too... yes, he likes it too. + +Good news, while I am blogging live from Morton's: because Paul was not entirely happy with his cold steak, he got his applepie on the house from a concerned Michael who heard it from Chris, the maitre d'. + +I will say that this is the best dinner I have had so far in the United States. Morton The Steakhouse in Houston is the best. Thank you! + +Location : [800-898 McKinney St, Houston, TX 77002](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=800-898%20McKinney%20St,%20Houston,%20TX%2077002) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 7:08 PM** + diff --git a/content/blog/rodizio.md b/content/blog/rodizio.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4928c09 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/rodizio.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 16: Hollywood' +date: 2010-05-11T11:56:56+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Las Vegas and forgotten phones + +The last two days we've been living it up in Las Vegas. We got here yesterday and spend the day walking from one side of 'The Strip' to the other and back. That sort of took all day - there's so much to see, so many beautiful hotels, casino's, people, and general buzz. We had a good steak dinner at The Strip House (which, by the way, does not refer to strippers, but to its location on 'the strip'). We got out of the restaurant at 11pm and dove into the night life. What happened then is of course a big secret, because you know what they say: what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Well, at any rate, I went to bed at around 2am with a slight buzz :) + +Today we slept in late, had some breakfast in our hotel (New York - New York), we rode the roller coaster, which Paul very much enjoyed and I substantially less so, and walked around a bit looking for a needle to open the 9 (!) blisters I had somehow managed to get walking around yesterday. In the afternoon we chilled a bit at the movies: we went to see Iron Man 2. It was an action packed movie for sure, lots of effects, but I found it less cool to watch than Kick Ass (which we saw in New York city) and The Losers (which we saw in Dallas). But nonetheless, a good 3hrs of sitting and allowing my feet to get better. + +At around 6pm we went to dinner in the Outback Steakhouse. Neither of us really enjoyed dinner there, it was a bad deal. Then we watched some of the daily nighttime entertainment - a huge volcano erupts every day at 8pm, and another hotel has a pirates' show (which incidentally was canceled because there was stormy weather with lots of wind). We then walked back to our hotel and took a bunch of pictures. But then all of the sudden I noticed I was missing my phone!! I must've lost/forgotten it in the Outback, so while Paul walked back to the hotel, I took a cab back to the restaurant only to find that they had not found it at all :( I was really upset for a bit, decided to punish myself and walk the 2mi back to the hotel, and when I got there, I found the phone in my bag after all. Fjieuw!! + +We were a bit tired from the action last night, so we hung out a bit at our hotel, I smoked a great romeo e julieta cigar (which hit the spot, I was floating around when it was finished), and walked around the hotel/casino's in our direct neighborhood. A highlight was definitely the luxor hotel. It's a giant pyramid (believe me when I say giant). We then turned in relatively early (1am) and Paul is already snoring while I'm writing up our Las Vegas adventure. + +** Posted by Pim van Pelt at 1:25 AM** + +## Why Rodizio is important + +Eight months ago, to the day, on the 12th of september 2009, Paul, Marina and I were in Almere having dinner. We went to a place where they served an endless amount of rotissary meats on sticks, a Rodizio. While eating, the topic of our travels to the East, South and North came up. We had decided to travel West, because it was the one missing direction. + +Today, exactly 8 months later, to the day, on the 12th of May (well, it is 7:36pm on the 11th over here in Los Angeles, but bear with us while we try to make an important point), we are in Dest. Dest stands for Wroclaw, Poland. A city of which we cannot pronounce the name. It also stands for "the destination" in a more generic sense. We are where we wish to be- a place of happiness, thourough life experience, great atmosphere, after driving about 8000km to get there. + +Today, same as 8 months ago, we eat a Rodizio, in Los Angeles' Universal City. We also celebrate 15 years of friendship, 4 major roadtrips, and what seems as a lifetimes worth of experience in three weeks crossing the United States of America. + +I think this is beyond cool. + +Location : [1032-1054 Universal Studios Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91602](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1054%20Universal%20Studios%20Blvd,%20North%20Hollywood,%20CA%209160) +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 7:44 PM** diff --git a/content/blog/santa-cruz.md b/content/blog/santa-cruz.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a859a98 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/santa-cruz.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 18: Santa Cruz' +date: 2010-05-13T11:59:28+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## iFlew and sushi-a-plenty + +Right now I'm in the car doing 70 on the freeway (i-5) to Santa Cruz and I realised that I haven't given any update on what we did yesterday. Funny how things go .. I was just mentioning to Paul "well we didn't even do anything yesterday" and he goes "Dude!" and it hits me - the skydive. How could I forget? :-) + +When we left the Samba Brazilian restaurant (where the Rodizio really was amazing!), we walked across the street to the iFly stand. They had closed up for the night but we were definitely interested to do this, so we jumped at the opportunity and booked ourselves a class and a "flight" for noon on 5/12/2010. We got there a few minutes early, and after some confusion about our payment and reservation, we were all good to go. Our instructor's name was Matt, and we were together with two asian-types, one of which spoke a little english, and the other none at all. We got a lesson in reading signs from the instructor (on when to relax, tense, stretch legs, raise chin, and so on), and the one guy translated for his comrade. + +We then went outside for a one minute dive in a huge column of air. Now one minute may not sound like much, but really, it's hard work in there and apparently it's the same free-fall time as a regular airplane jump. So Paul went in first, and got the hang of it pretty quickly. Then it was my turn and it didn't go that bad for me either. Because today was special somehow, we could purchase extra flight time for $10 per person, and it didn't take long for both of us to decide we wanted to go again (about 3 milliseconds for Paul, and 5 milliseconds for me). + +The second flight was a little bit more work for me - the wind rushing past my body made me have to push down with my arms a bit more than the last time, and I actually felt the strain in my shoulders and torso. But I'm not complaining, it was awesome, amazing, great and fantastic. I'd use more words if I need to, but I think my new found love for this sport is obvioius :) + +When we got back to the locker room, we were shown a bunch of pictures. But unfortunately, the two cameras were swapped, so when the guy took pictures, he always took them with the wrong camera, and therefor all pics were kind of empty. As a comp, the guys from iFly offered us a free DVD of our flight which we happily accepted. This was awesome!! + +Then we made our way to the beaches in SMO. We drove down, parked our car at Ocean Ave, walked over the beach to the boardwalk, made our way to the far end of the pier, and there's where I noticed that this is the westernmost point of Route 66. Yaay! We've driven route 66 for 4 states (TX, NM, AZ, CA) and seeing the end of it really is 'closure'. We bought some postcards to commemorate this. + +It was now around 4:30pm so we decided to give the Google office a visit. This office was kind of quiet, so we walked around it for a while looking for faces I'd recognize, and then played a game of pool, had a drink, and took off again. We went out to each sushi - in the true sense, with three platters of 25 sashimi pieces each - they were delicious!! and I took a picture of them to send to my buddies sejo and denraf (cc Marina to tease her :). + +After dinner, we drove around beverly hills, bel air, and the downtown area of LA, down Sunset Blvd, and then back to our motel6 in Hollywood. It was a good "end of the journey". I say this in quotes because actually we have still 400 miles or so to go. + +Today we're driving to Santa Cruz, and then up to Los Gatos where we'll meet up with Mike and go out drinking to the local pub. He'll be the first to hear of all of our stories, and as I'm not sure he's reading the blog, who knows, maybe we'll actually have some novel stories for him! + +Location: [i-5 freeway 47mi south of the 152](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=I5%Freeway%at%152%California) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 12:15 PM** + diff --git a/content/blog/tennessee.md b/content/blog/tennessee.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61f6932 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/tennessee.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 3: Tennessee' +date: 2010-04-27T11:14:24+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Getting our kicks! + +This is the first post from a real diner(tm) in virginia! We had been getting our kicks, on route 66, and programmed in a little detour: skyland VA. This is in the middle of shenandoah woods - a neck of the woods which was warmly recommended to me by andrew k in california before we started. + +I am now sipping my steaming hot and otherwise completely terrible coffee after ordering a low-carb breakfast: 3 eggs sunnyside up, a few strips of bacon, and a carb-free piece of toast. Paul doesn't yet know how to order his eggs, so he asked me and i said sunnyside up, which of course is not what he wanted, heh heh. + +The diner we are in is called the cracker barrel and old country store. I'm loving it but not like macdonalds :) It also puts an end to my mild hangover, so i am ready to go now! West virginiaaaaaa, country mommaaaaaaaa (ehh, whatever) + +Location : [10801 Battleview Pkwy, Manassas, VA 20109,](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10801%20Battleview%20Pkwy,%20Manassas,%20VA%2020109) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 7:15 AM** + +## 2**10 + +We thought you might want to know... 1024 miles on the jeep's odo. + +Location : [Waynesboro, VA](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Waynesboro,%20VA) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 10:52 AM** + +## .. aand we're back! + +And we've got coverage again... Instead of doing interstates from Washington DC to Nashville, TN we opted for the green alternative and cruised for some 70 miles of winding roads through Shenandoah nat'l park. Very beautiful forest covered mountians and our first encounter with wildlife: 2 black bears and a handful of deer. + +So, back on the interstate again (which brings us 3G again, so we have satnav back online). It's another 500 miles to Nashville, and it's already past 2pm, which means we may not make it there today. We'll see how far we get, first time for some lunch. + +**Posted by Paul de Weerd at 10:54 AM** + +## High Tech Blogging! + +Cool beans! I think I have made the ideal setup for our blogging experience while doing this trip (see picture). Paul is currently driving and we're about 130 miles from Knoxville TN [we're trying to get to Nashville, but we may not actually get that far, as it's about 5:30pm right now]. + +While he's driving down the I-81 at about 70mph, I decided to put all of the cables and geek toys I took with me on this trip to good use. So first, we have a car adapter for Apple (12V charger) which connects to my laptop. Then we have a USB connection to the Droid "courtesy of Verizon Wireless", which runs PDAnet in USB tethering mode. I can now type on the big keyboard with a decent screen real estate, and publish the blog entries like that, rather than typing on the mini-screen and keyboard of the Droid itself (which, of course, is also lots of fun :) + +But all the while, the android is happily running Driveabout and providing me internet. Thanks Charles and thank you again, Verizon - this really was a great thing you did for me. + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 2:38 PM** + +## What is a halcyon? + +We are currently waiting for our starters in a "fancy dining" establishment in the small town of crossville TN. It is called the Halcyon Days and the dutch would say it "is hem net niet". The interior is okay, linen on the tables, and a really friendly lady who greeted and seated us. The waitress, perhaps, is a little bit weird. Do you know the movie the butterfly effect? When Kayleigh ends up as a crack fiend... well that is sort of like the animo and willingness of our girl here (name known to to the editor). + +Other details are that the "fresh italian herbs" are simply dried oregano, and the cream cheese that goes with the smoked salmon is actually a ball of butter, and that the server doesn't actually take away our starters cutlery. + +Okay, on to the entrees- Paul has the newyork strip and i have a dish suitably called "scampi shrimp". I will say that i have nothing at all to complain. My shrimp tails came loose easily, there was a tasty ravioli with veggie filling and the butter-garlic sauce was yummy. Paul's steak was great, veg was crisp, and all in all very tasty indeed. + +So what is a Halcyon anyway? Paul utilized the power of the internet and got to the bottom of this culinary mystery: it is a mythical bird, which makes a nest in the ocean, and it has the power to calm down the waters and wind. + +Thanks for the good grub, the enlightenment and the hospitality. I will forgive you, M ;-) + +Location : [2444 Genesis Rd, Crossville, TN 38571,](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2444%20Genesis%20Rd,%20Crossville,%20TN%2038571) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 6:48 PM** + +## Free time +So here we are, in the Comfort Inn motel in Gordonsville, TN. The room rate is quite a bit higher than some of the ones we've seen along the road so far, but we decided we were too tired to continue our search for cheap lodging. On the upside, this is a very decent place, lots of room and complementary breakfast tomorrow morning (which will save us some time before we drive off to Nashville). + +In total, we drove about 650 miles (1040 km) today, from Washington DC to Gordonsville, probably the most driving for one day during our trip. Nashville would've been 70 more miles (an hour of driving). And in those last few miles we also crossed time zones from Eastern to Central (the boundary between these two time zones is somewhere in Tennessee, as we have just learned) so we've gained an hour! + +**Posted by Paul de Weerd at 8:51 PM** + diff --git a/content/blog/the-blues.md b/content/blog/the-blues.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ed46f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/the-blues.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 6: The Blues' +date: 2010-04-30T11:33:46+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Far south, and the Blues + +This morning we got up all bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready to accept our adventurous destiny in Louisiana. We thought we should go see the Misisipi (sic) delta now that we were here so we punched it it just to find that it is a 90mi drive taking about 2 hours. A piece of cake for us! + +So we drove down to the southernmost point ot Louisiana. We took a picture. We drove back to New Orleans. It took just over 4 hours in total. :) + +Then we drove up to the race course (which around these parts means horse racing). We drove around it finding a cheap spot to park - finally we dropped $20 on a guy who lives next to the tracks and hauled off on foot to the grounds. + +The price to get in is $60/person, but we agree it is worth it. The venue is about as big as Pinkpop, full of jazz, blues, gospel, dance, stands and crappy food. We saw the dixie cups (who are getting old, one even has a cane!), but they rocked. There were also choirs, ad hoc jamming, and everybody was having a great time. + +It is now about 4:30pm and although there is a lot of wind, it hasn't started to rain/storm yet. They say it will, later tonight and over the weekend. We'll hang tight though, the festival closes at 7pm so we have plenty of time left to soak up the atmosphere. + +One slightly annoying bit, though. In washington we kind of walked a lot, and i somehow hurt my left foot. I think maybe stretched a tendon or something, there is no pressure pain, and it it is fine to stand, drive, and so on. But somehow after an hour or so on foot, it really hurts bad and I start limping a bit. Not to worry though, there are plenty of chairs here, too and the race track is only about 2km or so across :-) + +Slightly overcast, but otherwise happy greetings from the New Orleans Jazz Festival - a must see for all visitors! + +Location : [2911-2999 Fortin St, New Orleans, LA 70119](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2999%20Fortin%20St,%20New%20Orleans,%20LA%2070119) + +**Posted by Pim van Pelt at 2:34 PM** + + diff --git a/content/blog/washington-columbia.md b/content/blog/washington-columbia.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ff7841 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/washington-columbia.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: 'Day 2: Washington Columbia' +date: 2010-04-26T11:13:23+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +--- + +## Washington and Columbia + +hokay, so here i am quite intoxicated from the evening, not day, of today's magical adventure. +this morning we got up at about 9:30am, after we had said to one and another that we would get up at 8am, but somehow this did not work out as planned. not to worry though, we got up, jumped into the car and (after a quick stop over at safeway for some supplies and tape to hold the phone / satnav / e-mail terminal / musicplayer / kitchensink to the dash) drove up to the smithsonian museum in the nation's capital. it was wonderful - we first went to the space and aviation museum on independence ave. we got there on a monday and reasonably early, so we could find a parking spot right at the entrance. unfortuately, they took quarters and dimes for some insane rate, so we could only fork up about a dollars worth, and so we parked for an hour planning on staying there only for breakfast, and using our change to stay there for a bit more. + +funny story - paul and i went in to have breakfast, and of course this was "american food" which meant either mickey D's or some rancid foodstuff that one might consider American Dining[tm]. So after looking around a bit I decided for the quarter pounder McD and Paul thought "oh no not again a burger" so he ordered a random sandwich which turned out to be completely horrible - and Paul left about 33% of it laying on the tray ready for tossing into the proverbial bin.. + +so we got our change, dropped it into the into the meter, and allowed ourselves 2hrs to see the smithsonian museum for aviation and space. it was -awesome-. Marina and I went to the Tech in San Jose, but it was terrible: a lot of displays were broken, badly lit, very poor overall - this one however was very very good - a lot of real life planes, air craft, space craft, a replica of the UCCP first lunar mission, apollo 11 (or 17, we forget... oh wait Paul looked it up, it was 11 after all) and a lot of really awesome displays of space and avionics. I particularly enjoyed the engine technology, coming from the early days, and leading up and until the hubble satellite which, I might add, is considerably large. We took many awesome pictures - which we'll try to post tomorrow on the picasa page. + +then, we drove our car to a car park up northwest of the white house, parked it (for 20$ OMG) and walked over to the white house, took the pictures we need to take to feel like real tourists, and walked down the green medow-'y parks to the american mall -and then to capitol. but while we were at it, we may as well have visited the great american history museum (also a smithsonian institute) - and we loved it! it was very meticulous, full of history and details. we learned so much about presidency, technology, people and the things that make america the great nation it is today. thank you, institute, for teaching us these things! + +from the smithsonian we walked to the capitol, a huge building, again full of snipers and guards, but otherwise quite friendly for tourists, and took some pictures (with normal cam and the fish eye lens). And then we cabbed it back to our car on 2021 K street. + +then, we made the big mistake of the day- we decided that it would be hip to go visit the pentagon. okay, so we drove down there, and saw it, well, one of its faces, while driving on a highway, and there was not an offramp that we could take, and all in all it took about 15 seconds until we were forced back on the highway. shit. oh well. so we put the victoria gastro pub (in columbia, MD) into the nav, and it happily sent us back up north. through the city. at about 5pm. + +so yes, unfortunately, we were in traffic for about 2hrs on an otherwise "short" 35 mile trip from dc to columbia. man, this took /for ever/ to get there. once we passed through washington and up north to baltimore things progressed ever so slightly better, but it was still rough riding through.. but then we met with jason, johan and devon; three openbsd type folk who paul knows on-line. we had a wonderful dinner in the gastro pub. + +this gastro pub, i will have you know, is also famous for its beers: many belgian, american, australian, german, and so on beers in bottle and on tap; we drank many of them. i had the "american dip" which was a sandwhich of sliced rib-eye and american gravy (very yummy) and paul and others had duo-of-beef, which was "vezeltjes vlees" and a piece of good beef filet and some potato gratin. all in all, very well done. and with good beer. did i say the place is famous for its beers? + +our server, a girl called gillian (sp? but I will call her G from now on) was really great and our guy devon liked her. well, we all did, but he did dig her a bit more :) so we stayed after hours and asked her out for a drink - she did and we ended up with the four of us (devon, paul, G and me) talking about all sorts of stuff: life, studies, growing up, our road trip, europeans vs americans, and many other things. it was really great - and I gave G our blog site and she said she'd read up: so if you do, G, this shot out is for you baby <3 + +then, drunk (me) and ready to go (paul) we left at about 1:30am and got at the hotel at around 2:15am. 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The only exception is Disqus comments, which are +not used by default (see [Adding +comments](#user-content-adding-comments) below). + +# Table of contents + +* [Notrack](#user-content-notrack) +* [Table of contents](#user-content-table-of-contents) +* [Screenshot](#user-content-screenshot) +* [Example site `config`](#user-content-example-site-config) +* [Shortcodes](#user-content-shortcodes) +* [User CSS](#user-content-user-css) +* [Navigation bar](#user-content-navigation-bar) + * [How to add a page to the navigation bar](#user-content-how-to-add-a-page-to-the-navigation-bar) + * [How to add a page to drop down menu](#user-content-how-to-add-a-page-to-drop-down-menu) +* [How tos](#user-content-how-tos) + * [How to create a home page](#user-content-how-to-create-a-home-page) + * [How to create a blog](#user-content-how-to-create-a-blog) + * [Adding comments](#user-content-adding-comments) + * [How to create a gallery](#user-content-how-to-create-a-gallery) + * [How to create a resume](#user-content-how-to-create-a-resume) + * [How to display social links](#user-content-how-to-display-social-links) +* [Other projects used in this theme](#user-content-other-projects-used-in-this-theme) +* [Contribution](#user-content-contribution) + +# Screenshot + +![Screenshot of the +theme](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gevhaz/hugo-theme-notrack/master/images/screenshot.png) + +# Example site `config` + +Here is a working `config.yaml`: + +```yaml +baseURL = "http://example.org/" +languageCode = "en-us" +title = "Lawyer Hugo Grotius" +theme = "notrack" +newContentEditor = "nvim" +mainSections = ["blog"] +# disqusShortname = "example" +paginate = 4 + +[params] + author = "Hugo de Groot" + siteHeading = "Hugo Grotius" # defaults to author + favicon = "hugo_grotius.png" # Adds a small icon next to the page title in a tab + showBlogLatest = true + mainSections = ["blog"] + showTaxonomyLinks = false + nBlogLatest = 4 # number of blog post om the home page + blogLatestHeading = "My writing" + footer = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License." + + [params.social] + github = "example" + linkedin = "example" + email = "example@example.com" + mastodon = "example" + medium = "example" + keybase = "example" + +[taxonomies] + year = "year" + month = "month" + tags = "tags" + categories = "categories" + +[permalinks] + blog = "/blog/:year/:month/:slug" +``` + +# Shortcodes + +| Category | Shortcode | Description | +| :--- | :--- | :--- | +| **Contact info** | contact-box | Displays contact info set in params.social | +| | social | Displays contact info set in params.social | +| **Photo Gallery** | gallery-category | Container for gallery-photo shortcodes | +| | gallery-modal | HTML to allow for full page view of gallery photos | +| | gallery-photo | Include a photo in a gallery | +| | gallery-script | Script to allow for full page view of gallery photos | +| **General** | image | Image for use in any page. See example in [How to create a blog](#user-content-how-to-create-a-blog) | +| | video | Similar to an ordinary