Thursday, June 29, 2006
Tonamu: This is the other three still asleep the morning after we got lost and stuck in the desert. Two carloads of Mexicans rescued us and we got to San Felipe just before midnight, which is when the stores stop selling beer. Doubly lucky.Zach slept on top of the van, Roy is in the passenger seat and Tom is stretched out across the back. It was too hot here, we slept badly.
This is Laguna Diablo. It is in the desert. We went and visit it cos' it had a cool name. It was real hot.
This was for sale in a market at La Bufadora called Holiday and Viking Serenade. It is a dried skate with googly eyes attached. It was about a metre long not including the tail.
What the fuck...
Oh, we neglected to introduce Zach. He is a good friend of Tonamu's cousin, Jesse, who we meet in San Diego. He makes balloon things, like the dinosaur in the picture. He had a week to kill so he joined us for our trip to Mexico. Cool.Monday, June 26, 2006
We were drinking with some guys our age in San Francisco and one of them mentioned that he had just been on a cruise ship with three of his friends. Apparently, the cruise wouldn't take passengers under 25 years unless they were married or accompanied by someone older. These four nineteen-year-old guys were really keen to go on this cruise. So they all married each other. Apparently they forgot to ask for the honeymoon suite, but it sounded like they still had a good time.
Me in my dungarees. WEARING MY NEW MEXICAN WRESTLING MASK!!!!!!!!!!
Tonamu and I meet Arnie at the DMV in San Diego. He has the same hair cut as me. Cool. We are trying to pull tough Arnie faces- Tonamu struggledSunday, June 25, 2006
In Mexico now. All good. If you wanted them here are our email address'
Tom- b0tt0m@hotmail.com (the 0s are zeros)
Roy- nigroy7@hotmail.com
Tonamu - tonamu@paradise.net.nz
Yay. Got more cool photos coming, dungree shots too.
Tom- b0tt0m@hotmail.com (the 0s are zeros)
Roy- nigroy7@hotmail.com
Tonamu - tonamu@paradise.net.nz
Yay. Got more cool photos coming, dungree shots too.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Roy: Tom bought dungarees from a San Fran op shop the other day and decided to wear them the following day without a shirt, wearing just the denim and his Dr. Martin boots. He thought he looked like a tough hick, not to be messed with. Little he did he know that he looked like a regular homo in frisco with his nipples hanging out (as confirmed later by our hostesses) and the butch wanker didn't even get hit on. Haha
Tonamu: The palm trees on Venice Beach (Los Angeles) have been tagged. The grafitti goes up five metres on many of the trees, not sure how they did that.
The mattress is probably a homeless person's bed. The blue tarp behind one of the trees has a homeless person in it.
The buildings in the distance become hard to see if they are more than two kilometres away, because of the godawful smog. This was a yucky beach.
Tonamu: We replaced the burst tyre with the spare tyre (which we were told was full) that turned out to be completely flat. The state freeway assistance man filled it up, and it was all bumpy, like it had the mumps. We drove with the hazard lights on at 20mph until we found a tyre garage.
Tonamu: This is us pulled over on the narrow shoulder of the Santa Monica Freeway. Lot of cars are zooming by us really fast.
Tonamu: This is what the front right tyre looked like when the van stopped moving. The tyre blew up on the five-lane Santa Monica Freeway while we were heading from Los Angeles to San Diego. The steel rim is resting on the road.I passed through three lanes of traffic without doing any shoulder-checks.
Us in front of our newly acquired van. It's Japanese- Tonamu insisted
These are the wonderful girls who accomodated us in Oakland. Wonderful girls, wonderful indeed. And their (massive) cat, Halloween
Roy: The public phones don't work too well, Tonamu's losing the battle against them drastically. The public phone is his arch nemesis
Cool. Our hosts had never noticed this, despite living a block away. Mexico is 380 miles south
Roy: America's tribute to Dad on Father's day. Note the extra gun and dearth of target animal
Roy and I looking real cool. Tonamu letting the team down, again.
The Full House Houses. Cool. Whatever happened to Stephanie- she was spunky!
Roy: i'll be doing both. More efficient that way. Miss you Anna xxx
ps. I dont have AIDS, unlike the lad in the poster. Tom does
Roy: add 5 hours to the times of the postings and minus a day
Roy: Yes he is
Am I? Castro was wicked fun. Really overtly gay- don't get this sort of carry on in Dunedin. Note the rainbow flag coming from my neck. There were lots of them, as June is Gay awareness month
Inmm drunk, soory
We made it. We are staying in Oakland, by San Francisco. This is the roof of our new best friends Dianne and Adrianna's apartment. Roy and I are looking cool. Tonamu looks like a tit.
We made it. We are staying in Oakland, by San Francisco. This is the roof of our new best friends Dianne and Adrianna's apartment. Roy and I are looking cool. Tonamu looks like a tit.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
We've made it.Yay. Got lots of cool pictures, but cant yet work out how to get them on. Dont dismay, in the next few days hopefully. San Francisco is wonderful, warm sunny. Went from plane to the gay district (Castro). Cool- lots of gay people and stuff. Op shopping of to a promising start. Got me some dungarees, i'm told i look the part. Clothes sold by weight in this particular place, how novel. Roy pissed himself the other day- ha! Pledged to drink a 40 (40 ounces of cheap beer, served in a brown paper bags. Disappointingly good- like really good home brew) everyday of my stay. Car difficult to arrange, today hopefully.- LA tomorrow all things going to plan, we'll pump iron on venice beach with those who do. Roy pissed himself.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Expedition members- Roy, Tom and Tonamu. Can't think of anything funny- yet...
