Repatriate some (lowres) pics from blogspot.com

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 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.
 
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 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!

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 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 :)
 
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 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.

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 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.
 
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 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.

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 $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.
 
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 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.
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 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.
 
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 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.

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 ## Steamboat and Gumbo Pot
 
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 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.
 
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 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.
 
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 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)

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 ## Blogging at 15.000ft
 
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 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....
 

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 ## Rapid Incompetence - 5+5=10
 
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 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.
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 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.
 
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 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?

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 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.
 
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 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.
 
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 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].
 
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 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.