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(*) Just how messy was the bus? (guess which way is up!) (cy3u_022.jpg) (*) The bus parked by the side of the road, Mike smoking... (cy3u_010.jpg) (*) Disembarking from the bus, in the middle of the desert (James, Todd, Erin) (cy3u_011.jpg) (*) amazing photo of Seguaro cacti #2 (cy3u_029.jpg) (*) cooking french toast at Seguaro National Monument (cy3u_030.jpg) (*) A beer toast (Martine and Siobhan) (cy3u_034.jpg) (*) Beautiful photo at Big Bend... (d2nu_006.jpg) (*) The french quarter is so weird: on one hand, old and mysterious -- but also a tourist trap. This photo and the next one captures it nicely. (dn8g_015.jpg, dn8g_016.jpg) (*) Laura trying on my Mardi Gras hat (dxrn_002.jpg) (*) When we were there, a house caught on fire... funny thing is, once they closed the shutters, from the front it didn't look appreciable worse than the neighboring houses... (dxrn_006.jpg) (*) Tim reaching under the front part of the miracle-ized bus for something. (crwd_011.jpg) woman talking on the phone. her shirt reads, "Sorry about last night". (crwd_013.jpg) A bus named DESIRE (the #82 bus creeping out of the darkness) (crwd_024.jpg) woman (man?) passed out on a motorcycle, parked on the sidewalk (crwd_025.jpg) After a hike into the hills, the bus looks small against the desert #1 (cy3u_017.jpg) After a hike into the hills, the bus looks small against the desert #2 (cy3u_018.jpg) Dry riverbed, on the other side of the hills from the bus (cy3u_019.jpg) ...and just how packed were those sleeping bags? (cy3u_025.jpg) obligatory boy-girl backrub chain... (cy3u_026.jpg) amazing photo of Seguaro cacti #1 (cy3u_028.jpg) The bus toss, at one of the hotsprings. It sure was windy... (cy3u_039.jpg) map of states that are cool about beer on the bus, pseudo-itinerary... (d2nu_008.jpg) another desert stop. Todd and I climbed into a crevasse and looking down. (d2nu_011.jpg) same stop by the river, just after a swim (Curt, Randy, Laura, Steve, Martin) (d2nu_013.jpg) I took a break after the swimming hole, just hanging out above the bus. (d2nu_014.jpg) Club Tortoise Karaoke #1 (dn8g_007.jpg) Club Tortoise Karaoke #2 (dn8g_008.jpg) Bus switches ("cherries", "whipped cream", "jello", etc.) (dn8g_012.jpg) The Mayor's Clean Team ! (dxrn_004.jpg) Blues band playing (dxrn_005.jpg) New Orleans Museum of Art-- one of the "dog icon" paintings, now quite famous. (dxrn_008.jpg) Erin's completely outrageous outfit. (dxrn_014.jpg) Holiday Inn downtown, with an incredible mural (dxrn_015.jpg) Another great Mardi Gras symbol (budweiser truck parked down from Bourbon Street) (dxrn_017.jpg) Obnoxious Jesus Freaks. Thought it was ironic for him to straddle his bullhorn between his legs, while proclaiming "Got Aids Yet?". jerk. (dxrn_026.jpg)
tourists catching beads in the square (crwd_012.jpg) graveyard tour (crwd_021.jpg) expansive desert, seen from a hilltop (cy3u_016.jpg) another photo of the messy-bus (cy3u_021.jpg) another photo of Seguaros (cy3u_027.jpg) texas woods, I believe (dn8g_010.jpg) decorated 2nd floor house, new orleans (dn8g_013.jpg) bourbon street party scene (dn8g_014.jpg) bourbon street party scene #2 (dxrn_003.jpg) New Orleans Museum of Art, 2nd floor (looking into their Faberge collection) (dxrn_007.jpg) another decorated 2nd floor house, new orleans (dxrn_019.jpg)
Carley with facepaint, plastic marijuana "beads": (crwd_005.jpg) two (very drunk) guys that carly, robert and I met in a restaurant. (crwd_008.jpg) a bunch of us posing for a Mardi Gras shot (Carley, Tim, Carlos, me, Ollie, Laura) (crwd_006.jpg) me on the ship. the shades help. (crwd_014.jpg) laura on the ship, trying to avoid looking like marilyn monroe (crwd_015.jpg) hanging out at Mardi Gras base camp (crwd_017.jpg) hanging out at Mardi Gras base camp (Mike, Curt, and a very drunk Martine and Allison) (crwd_018.jpg) Mardi Gras base camp was under a huge white brick wall (warning: artsy shot) (crwd_019.jpg) another shot of Mardi Gras base camp. (crwd_022.jpg) Dave, Martin, Allison partying on the bus (cy3u_002.jpg) Hugh, me, Andy, Colin partying on the bus (cy3u_003.jpg) Erin hanging upside down (cy3u_004.jpg) Martin, Allison, Erin walking back from Miracle hotsprings (cy3u_005.jpg) another adam-in-shades shot (Seguaro Natl. Monument) (cy3u_013.jpg) Anna and Tim (cy3u_024.jpg) toast (cy3u_035.jpg) Siobhan and Martine laughing (cy3u_036.jpg) foot toast! (cy3u_037.jpg) Nancy, Carley, Anna (asleep) and Todd (d2nu_001.jpg) me, shaking up some iced cream (d2nu_002.jpg) Mexican bar (d2nu_003.jpg) Martine, Conor, Siobhan, Curt and Dave (d2nu_004.jpg) Dani at Big Bend (d2nu_005.jpg) Siobhan digging through her bag (d2nu_009.jpg) Gotcha! nailed Robert... :-) (d2nu_010.jpg) Carley riding a donkey into town (d2nu_015.jpg) Conor and Siobhan reading a book together (dn8g_001.jpg) Club Tortoise: Robert, Martine, Mike and Carley (dn8g_005.jpg) Trying on dresses at the 5 and 10... (Dani, Siobhan, Allison, Laura) (dn8g_011.jpg) Tim, me, Carley, Ollie, Carlos (dn8g_018.jpg) Parade street scene: (some random woman), Ollie, Carley (dn8g_022.jpg) Allison (Tim Hunt in the background) (dxrn_001.jpg) passed out at base camp (dxrn_012.jpg) sneakin' off into the night (Dani, Martine, Allison, Erin, others) (dxrn_013.jpg)
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