Back from Mexico and my house is safe!
I’ll expand more on the Mexico trip next entry… but on Tuesday I received word from the Passenger Services Desk that my neighborhood in LA was evacuated due to fires in the area. A message from my boss… It put a damper on the vacation a bit but we were still able to enjoy ourselves a bit. We were tuned into CNN in our room watching any footage possible to see if we could find anything about our house.
The fires were just across the wash from us about half a mile East. Josh’s parents were watching our house and dogs and were advised to evacuate and waited it out and then the evacuation was called off.
Here are some photos from our neighborhood area:
I’m partially happy I wasn’t home because I heard the sky was as dark as night at 2 in the afternoon and it was so smokey, you could barely breath and it burnt everyone’s throats. But I sort of wish I was there just in case to pack my bags and be ready!
now playing: “won ton tomatoooooo is stuck in my head!”
Mexico cruise!
It’s official Josh and I are cruising to Mexico on Saturday 
I hope it’s as fun as I’m anticipating. We both need to get away from work for a while. With all the freelance I’m doing and all the business stuff he’s doing at home, we’re always a bit stressed lately.
It looks like hot 95ish and guaranteed some scattered thunderstorms. I sort of miss the East coast thunderstorms we used to have, so I’m probably not as worried about it as I should be. West coast of Mexico is a hurricane area and it is hurricane season.
Most worried about the sea sickness! and getting bored on a cruise ship…
now playing: Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
i cut my hair, just in time for fall/winter
i had it bleached with streaks too:
Detour Festival recap
I forgot to post a recap so here goes…
Went down to LA from Valencia via freeway to Universal City then took the subway downtown. Way cheaper, way easier and way faster
Shout Out Louds = Fantastic! The crowd didn’t move much.. but it’s a festival with several bands so this is typical… the die hards are at the shows where the band is the single the main attraction.
Lead singer of Shout Out Louds has a striking resemblance to…
Jason Schwarzman! Could it be his long lost Swedish twin brother?!
I never saw or heard JUSTICE before and they were pretty good. Sarah and I noted we never saw so many guys dancing before. Waaaay more guys in the crowd than girls and they were dedicated to their moves. wow.
According to Amritz… Daft Punk’s manager is a DJ and he was there doing a set. We stopped by that it looked like they were having a blast. There were 4-5 DJ’s doing their thing on one table.
Bloc Party was good, but not as good as Coachella… they seemed to have more energy at Coachella. It was way hotter at Coachella and nice and cool at Detour so I don’t get it either It was their last tour date in America maybe that was it.
Here’s the Shout Out Louds (the video quality sucks when it gets YouTubified so I’ll try to post it in my photo gallery at a much more reasonable quality):
now playing: that you tube video above
Fantastic time waster
This thing is a great time waster… I remember I played with it a bit in June and now I got hooked on adding photos. Totally eating up all my free time that I should be doing other more productive things…
Here are my photos
now playing: Shout Out Louds - 100 Degrees
Hipster Olympics
I was just reminded of this video while I was at LA Weekly’s Detour festival yesterday. Enjoy
Dumont
We went to Dumont Dunes last weekend. As always there were hiccups
We left at 1pm and we didn’t get more than 1 mile from our house and the left side trailer tire popped! In all fairness we drove up a curb when pulling out so that’s probably what bubbled up the tire and caused it to pop. We drove up the road to an America’s Tire Co. and had to wait in line for a trailer tire. It was about an hour wait so we grabbed a snack and waited. After they replaced it, we were on our way again… for a little while anyway…
Hector, Travis, and Alex who were driving behind us, had the check engine light turn on and the truck temperature was really high. He pulled over for a while to get it to cool down. Then he drove up to the next exit where we were waiting and they started adding water, because his coolant was down. Turns out it was down almost a gallon and a half! And so we continue on.
About 40 miles outside of Dumont, where it’s just desert and tumbleweed and the occasional trailer or shack in the middle of the desert… POP! The right side trailer tire pops! What are the chances?!! So it’s about dusk at this time.. the sun is slowly setting and we’re in the middle of nowhere!! Josh removed the tire and rim and Hector disconnected his trailer from his truck and took his truck up to the next town 20 miles away - Baker.
In the meantime I called Mom to be my internet sleuth and start looking up numbers of tire places and towing places nearby to see where we could get a tire at 7:30 on a Friday. By about the 5th place we found a tire! Josh and Hector eventually got there and had to wait in line and finally got the tire (for $100 more than retail!) after about 45 minutes. While they were out there our friend Eddie who was meeting us at Dumont found us on the side of the freeway and pulled over. He totally nailed my thoughts - said it was like Hills Have Eyes.. we’re stranded in the dark in the middle of nowhere between hicksville and hicksville! I felt like I was in Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses. When they got back they hooked it up… it was only C rated so it wasn’t exactly rated to tow all the weight we had in the toy hauler. It was sort of bubbling out so we kept it at 55-60 with our hazards on.
We had an awesome time out there. The best thing was the weather, it was way nicer than Pismo weather. It was 84 in the day and 65 in the night.. Pismo was 64 and cloudy in the day and 48 in the night. It was sunny everyday too! I forgot how much fun Dumont was. The dunes are way higher and way more exciting too. I tried to ride Josh’s quad around camp and it’s just too much thinking right now for me to learn the clutch, shifting, brakes, etc.
I posted pics in the gallery on the right.
now playing: Lenlow - Bjorn Slippy
