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So we’re coming back. Laura and I are making a trip(s) back to the midwest for the seixghth time this year? That’s somewhere between 6 and 8, I think. Laura’s actually making two trips because she has to be here in Portland during the week for work. So why are we coming back? Lana Davis (Scott to be) is getting married in good old Lawrence this weekend, and then Kate “the Zimminator” Zimney (Coleman to be) is getting hitched next weekend. So I’m doing a three way PDX-MCI-MSP-PDX trip while Laura’s just flying into Lawrence and Minneapolis each weekend.
Folks, I’ve gotta tell ya, I love coming home, but I’m tired. Seems like we haven’t had three weeks in the past six months where we haven’t either been heading out somewhere or have had people here visiting us. We love seeing people, but shit is exhausting! So, that said, I’m looking forward to weddings and seeing people and all that, but I’m already feeling homesick. PDX homesick. And I haven’t even left yet!
Okay, so there’s my announcement and rant, all in one. I’m guessing this is my most boring post to date.
Laura and I have been on the road for more or less the past month. In the month of August we had two midwest wedding to attend and one weekend of bachelor/bachelorette parties. So rather than flying back and forth and trying to find a dog sitter for three weekends plus, we just thought we’d load up the car and make a road trip out of it. And now, 6300+ miles later, Laura, Charlie and I are back home with about 1000 new pictures. It was really a great trip overall. We saw a lot of family and friends along with about half a dozen national and state parks. To keep expenses low (and due to hotels not all being too keen on dogs) we camped out for most of our time on the road. We hit up 11 states in all: Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah and, of course, Oregon.
Need to go into more detail on the trip, but as time passes, it’s harder to blog on the past. Lesson to learn? Blog in real time.
But check out my picks: on the blog or on picasa.
So it’s been at least over a month since my last post. Why? Well first off because I got married. Not much time to blog, when you’re putting a wedding together, not to mention having two straight weeks for family and friends in from out of town. I’ll probably blog about it a bit when get our pictures from the photographers. Hopefully that’ll be soonish.
And in order to keep this post mildly interesting, here’s a video of me and Wasko at Ben Flannery’s bachelor party two years ago. Needless to say, we were a little drunk.
So I’m sitting at work (home) this past week and I look out the window and see “this” (aka the picture below). How f***ing awesome is that. No photoshop. No preconceived photo shoot; just me looking out my window as seeing a “two toned” car in front of a tree. Just makes you love life’s little surprises.
Tommy Two Toned
