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    Friday, June 1st, 2007
    2:31 pm
    Bruce's renovations
    they're going slowly, but they're going!
    here's a pic so you can see how it's going!




    umm, that probably won't work, here's the link to where they're posted :)

    http://pics.livejournal.com/joeychen/gallery/0000s81g
    Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
    1:05 pm
    pics from the trip
    don't forget to click to look at the next page of top level folders.
    Am working on place, car and people names!

    http://pics.livejournal.com/aka_bruce/
    Monday, May 22nd, 2006
    5:47 pm
    all photos updated!
    Ok, have posted all my photos.
    http://pics.livejournal.com/aka_bruce/
    I'll try and go back in thru out the the week and add some comments about where we were, cars, people etc.
    I need to know put all these files on our home computer, and back them up!! Wanna see how many I can put on a CD.
    I also want to pick some out to print out. Might print out a few page size and put in a frame, and put some others together in some kinda travel scrap book perhaps.
    Don't forget on the main scrapbook page to click next page for the other days of photos.

    Saturday, May 20th, 2006
    11:32 pm
    Saturday, Fallon, NV
    Vacation almost over, waah!!
    Finally back at a hotel with internet.
    So, what have we been up to.
    Tuesday, we did go swimming at Balmorhea, it's a pretty cool place. Water was soooooo clear, and pool was huge. It had tons of fish in it, little Mexican tetras, big black catfish, and some turtles. The little tetras were everywhere, and kinda freaked my out, so I only had a short swim (where I shrieked and carried on most of the time, haha), and then dangled my feet.
    That night we were in Las Cruces, NM. Their internet didn't work. We went to the restaurant attached to the BW, and it turned out to be quite nice, which was pleasant
    Wednesday, we headed towards Douglas, AZ to hang out with Harrod at his ArtCarCultCompound. Chris and I ended up taking off from the others, and got there about an hour earlier. That plus the time change allowed for plenty of shopping time for junky crap -Douglas has many junky crap stores. I got a pair of purple framed sunnies, and a LED light up wand (haha). We had an exciting, kinda scary event in the afternoon in the compound. Weather had been changing with some clouds coming in. Earlier we had a big gust of wind go through, but no big deal. We're starting to help set up tables etc for dinner, and what we think is another wind gust starts, but it is HUGE!!! Now, it's 6 of one, half a dozen of another as to wether it was a huge wind gust or small tornado. We're going with small tornado cause that's much more dramatic!
    Anyway, the wind just comes on - BAM. Emily and I dashed for the inside area, and Harrod started yelling to everyone to get inside and he followed us in and shut the door. The window in the living area was open, but we weren't game enought to get close enough to close it. Dust just poured in. The wind ripped off so many of the roof tar paper tiles on the warehouse side (they're working on taking them off, so I guess that's a good thing?) and they were just littered everywhere. It took us an hour to clean everything up there. Chris, when it happened, thought it was just another wind gust, so he had hunkered down in place hiding his face from the dust, and got conked on the back of the neck with probably a roof tile. He's OK tho, it was a just an abrasion. Sammy (Marilyn's dog) had been following Emily, but didn't follow her inside, so we all spent the first couple of minutes looking for him. He finally appeared out from somewhere! We let him into Marilyn's car (even tho it was still kinda warm) as it was a nice safe haven for him. He finally stopped shivering after an hour! Marilyn and Sunshine were still off shopping they hadn't noticed anything! It was pretty localised.
    Dinner was great, and as I was pretty hungry by that point it tasted awesome! We had pasta, several salads, bread, strawberried and ice cream. Then we watched Harrod's movie. In comparison to the get together there in Feb (that I couldn't make) we went to bed early around 12:30, it was a school night! Unfortunately, our room at the Motel 6 we were staying at, the A/C didn't work (and we didn't discover this till we came back there at 12:30), and we were too tired to move, so left the window open, where some twit several rooms down decided to chat on her friggen cell phone outside our window at 3:30am, grrr. Crappy sleep night. Oh well.
    Thursday, we went and looked around Bisbee in the morning, cute town! Chris and I went to the Mining Museum, which was pretty interesting, and I got some killer bee honey (which boringly does not taste any different from regular honey). Chris got a nice photo of an old truck. There are some nice art galleries in Bisbee.
    Then we headed up to Phoenix, we were staying at the Motel 6 in Scottsdale. It was pretty nice for a Motel 6, and our A/C worked great, phew! It was pretty hot there, but a nice dry heat. We went out to see Mr Lee's Rock Garden, another folk art environment. We had tried to call him, to see if we could go in and look around, but the phone was always engaged, we didn't want to knock on the door (it was around dinner time) so we looked from the street (and there was tons to see just from there!) and left our postcards in his mailbox :)
    We all ended up doing our own thing for dinner, and Emily went to the airport to pick up Ken. Chris and I went a long way to have dinner at Islands, it was good tho. We also got watch batteries for our tyre valve (3 batteries almost $15, ack, damn digital tyre guage) and did a TJ's visit. We met up for breakfast Fri morning to say our good byes and go our seperate ways.
    Fri, Chris and I headed out of Phoenix northwest thru AZ on US93. After crossing over I40, we went to Chloride, AZ a half ghost town. It was pretty cool, pretty eccentric. I think a bunch of artists live there, cause there was some folk arty environments and metal sculptures around. We checked out the old jail, and some old Sear's cabins. We drove out to see the murals, on the Chloride rocks, and they were awesome. Heading back out of town, we went to the cemetery which was pretty interesting. A lot of home made headstones, several headstones with senses of humour. We thought there would be old ones, but not so much, most were more recent.
    Then, up to and over Hoover Dam, some traffic, but not too bad. Into Vegas, and we went to Sam's Town for buffet dinner. Went off strip in hopes it wouldn't be too busy or expensive. But alas, we had to wait a while, and it was the more expensive seafood night (and I'm not really into crab legs anway) and the food wasn't that great. Oh well.
    Then up to Alamo, staying at the Meadow Lane Motel. The owner's dog Daisy was *such* a cutie, so friendly! We went up that night for a soak in the Ash Springs hot springs.
    Sat, today! Headed out and went up the Extra Terrestrial hwy (stopped at the Little Ale'Inn, where Chris got an indifferent hot breakfast) up to Tonopah. Then we took hwy 376 north, and visited the half ghost towns of Belmont (8 year round residents) and Manhattan (50 year round residents) Belmont is off the electricity grid, they all do solar and generators. The saloon there is for sale!! haha. The sign there said no dogs inside (there were about 3 outside), then we open up the door and there are like 3 more inside. We stopped in Manhattan at the bar there for a coke and a chat to the bartendtress. Then we headed up to Hwy50. Just before that we turned off to check out the Spencer Hot Springs. They were great, 3 tubs to choose from. We had the main nice tub to ourselves while we were there, then a couple of other groups of 1 or 2 people came as we were drying off, so we chatted a bit with them. So, timed just right! It was pretty awesome to sit in the warm water and just gaze about at the mtns all around.
    We decided to stay tonight in Fallon (1 hour east of Reno) rather than push thru to Reno, then drive around at 9pm trying to randomly pick out a hotel. We're at the Holiday Inn Express, and it's pretty swanky! We thought about hitting Reno for a breakfast buffet tomorrow, but the Sunday one's are pretty expensive and probably crowded, so we'll just get something here instead.
    So tomorrow will pretty much just be a straight shot home, nothing really to stop at.
    I'll try and upload the remaining photos then.
    Monday, May 15th, 2006
    8:51 pm
    and today, we ate...
    good road day today, only about 360miles, as we hadn't wanted to plan for too much as we just had such a busy 5 days in Houston!
    We went to Austin, along the way I called one of the Creative people in Houston for a bbq recommendation. Although we would have liked to have gone to the best place (the Saltlick), we went with Ironworks BBQ, as it was quite close to where we visiting in Austin. We all really enjoyed it. I was worried as it was near downtown that it was going to be a new place and all slick, but it was older and funky looking. Yummy food.
    We then went to tour the Cathedral ofJunk, which is near I35 and 290. Very nice! Don't know how he managed to weave and bind all that junk together so it was as sturdy as it was! It was cool because it was a relatively small footprint, but still absolutely tons to look at and appreciate. Derrick liked it the best of the folk art places we have been to, as it was the most industrial looking (like his car!) and likewise Vince (the Cathedral of Junk guy) liked Derrick's car the best!
    Drive out to Sonora after that was nice. Pretty are of Texas that, still all nice and green. Derrick split off in Harper to have dinner with his sister, and will be coming in late tonight. Apparently he hit a deer on the way to his sis's place, ack.
    We had dinner at a steak place here that was very good. Marilyn and I did the steak for two option, 2 lbs of steak, ack! Needless to say we didn't finish it all. It was a Kansas City cut, whatever that is. It was tender and flavourful, so alright with me! Had some nice big strips of fat on the edges that were cut off for Marilyn's little dog Sammy (as were the BBQ rib bones saved for him) that dog is livin large!
    So, quite the meatorama today, at least we all had salad bar tonight, haha. Probably be like this for the next couple of days, appetising veggie options aren't too common. We expect we'll be doing more Mexican once we hit NM and AZ, so the BBQ and steak was nice today.
    We're here at the BW in Sonora, it's pretty nice, relatively new I think. Has a pool, with no water, haha. Oh well, it's not too hot today (that will be coming as we go west, ugh). We may go swimming tomorrow at Balmorhea, a huge spring fed pool. Free breakfast at our BW tomorrow morning features make our waffles in the shape of Texas, woohoo! I'll take a picture ;)
    Sunday, May 14th, 2006
    5:04 pm
    Sat night, and Sunday
    We skipped the illuminated cruise last night for family dinner out at an excellent Indian restaurant called, I think, Mayuri. Seriously yummy food!
    Em said the illuminated cruise was lots of fun tho, very wacky, and really good to have a cruise that was just for the artists to enjoy driving around. They stopped a couple of times along the way for food etc. They didn't come home till around midnight tho, didn't realise it was going to go so late!

    We left relatively early for the Orange Show Brunch and Awards, as I wanted to make sure I got fed today, haha. There was a ton of yummy food tho, so no worries there. Someone told me that some other group was doing food for us yesterday, and they didn't have it together, eh, who knows. Aggravating at the time, but clearly not a biggie overall!
    It was quite humid today, and overcast most of the time, with some sun (that was worse, sun and humidity, blech!). It finally rained around 4pm, and that was some rain! Oh this delicate little Californian with her humidity aversion, and awe at 'real rain' as Chris likes to call it. Probably explains why I love going out to the desert :)
    The awards for fun, Emily won third place for political, yay! The Swirl Car from New York that I really liked won second place in painted. For participant's choice, the person I had voted for won, woohoo! It was Robert from Asheville, NC. His first trip to Houston, his first big art car thing (I think he had gone to a small fest in FL), and his first trip west of the Mississippi. He was floored! He's a super nice guy tho, and makes beautiful art. I hope we can entice him out to CA/West Coast in the next couple of years for our events.

    I was going to go over with a bunch of others for a pool party, but the rain kept me in. Stopped now, but we'll be having dinner here in a couple of hours, greek hamburgers! Doing a last load of laundry too. Have packed up the underbed storage in the truck, and just need to pack up the clothes and electronics.
    We're aiming to meet up at the ArtCar Museum tomorrow morning at 9am, to head out, as we all know where that is! Conveniently it's pretty close to us too :)
    Our route to Austin is still under discussion, there's some that like I10 to 17, and others (incl me) that like Hwy290. I want to have bbq lunch at one of the BBQ places in Elgin, east of Austin on 290. :)
    We'll visit the Cathedral of Junk in Austin, then head out to Sonora for the night. Probably end up doing night driving again, blah. Everyone complains about leaving so early (and I know there's no way we'll actually leave at 9am, ha -maybe we'll just leave at 9am, and I'll definately be able to have my BBQ lunch), but we have a folkart visit that will take at least 2 hours, and I'm sure some dithering about lunch, then the usual other stops, and it's suddenly dark and we're still driving! Anyway, I love caravan driving, really, hahaha. Sigh, the problems with being a control freak.
    Saturday, May 13th, 2006
    10:34 pm
    ArtCar Parade!!!
    The parade was awesome, tons of people!! I waved and waved and waved. People seemed to enjoy the truck a lot, so that's awesome. Being #51 was pretty cool, they staged us in groups of 50, on the left and right side of the road, so we were right up the front at opposite from number 1, and got to see the first 50 roll out. Then as we were parading back on the other side of Allen Pkwy, we saw the other artcars rolling along. It was pretty hot today, but not humid, so that was great.
    I made the stoopid mistake of trying to hop onto the tailgate of Bruce when he was still moving when we were navigating out of the area, mostly pride hurt, and a scraped knee and elbow, whoops!
    A bunch of us parked in a nearby parking lot where they had arranged free parking for us, which was fine, meant we could leave whenever we wanted. Was left with a bit of bad taste at the end of it all, because going over to the Park where the food and performances etc were, on our badges it noted that our badge was good for 2 drinks and lunch, but it turns out only at the special tent. When we find that, there's no food but a sandwiches that have been sitting out in the sun, and absolutely no drinks. Seeing as we were car #51, that kinda sucked. Then when we went over to the merchandise booth to redeem our t-shirt coupon, I was lucky enough to get the last men's xl (the were out of the women's size I would have liked) and running out of others soon. So it would have been nice had they offered t-shirts to the ArtCar artists at prior events, or asked and put aside what we would have liked.
    Later we went by the food/drinks booth tent again and they had just water, and some hot dogs (again, not that appealing), so I grabbed a water, and we went back to the in-laws and made a ham sandwich. Would suck for the out-of-towners staying at hotels who didn't have that option tho! Our Bay Area ArtCar Fest may not have that kind of sponsership, money and attendance (cars and spectators), but nobody evers wants for food and drink, we pile it on! Hopefully the brunch tomorrow will be better, I'm gonna get there early to be sure! ;)
    Anyway, the parade itself was certainly a blast, and we'll hopefully have my brother in law tape it for us when they broadcast it May 25th.

    Skipped the illuminated cruise tonight for some family time, we had excellent Indian food, hit the spot!
    10:29 pm
    ArtCar Symposium/Shop Talk
    Fri night was the ArtCar Symposium at the ArtCar Museum. It was great! We had the ArtCar Horn Concerto, which was a lot of fun, very inventive! Inside the museum there was a showing of a short documentary made about the WMD (Weapon of Mass Distribution) that was made by Mel Chin and some TN university students, it was fascinating, an awesome project! I'm looking forward to seeing it at the Orange Show tomorrow!
    The man behind Big Horn also talked, and he was very good (I think he's a motivational speaker, so that explains it!). We also had a performance by Max rada dada, who did some fantastic unexceptional tricks for us, that was a hoot.
    I skipped out on going out for a late dinner of Thai food, getting 20 artcar artists out to dinner?? Not my cuppa tea! All the go-go-go is definately getting to Chris and I, and I'm a little worried I'm getting sick, but hope it's just allergies. If it's allergies, I don't want to over do it and have it turn into a sinus infection.
    Friday, May 12th, 2006
    10:36 pm
    Main Street Drag
    The Main Street Drag today was so much fun!! We were in about 7-8 groups of about half a dozen art cars each. Each group had a leader, and a route of about 5 stops, mostly at elementary schools (our group did all elementary schools). But the best part about it is that each group got two motorcycle cop escorts that went with us and stopped traffic and we ran red lights and all sorts of fun!
    ArtCar Artists love having people look at their cars, and to have two motorcycle cops draw even more attention to us, well, we were in artcar heaven!
    The visits to the schools were awesome. The kids were a lot of fun. My car is apparently "tight", haha. There were many interests in purchasing Bruce too. Having visited schools before, and learnt from experience, I either kept the tailgate up, or sat on the tailgate and didn't allow kids in the back. They're like burrs, you can't get the darn things out once they get in there!! ;)
    Bruce seemed to be quite the hit with the kids, it's the back they love (and it's my fave part too!), and I can see why, it's sized well for them, and like a hangout/cubby house.
    I just posted some pics of the kids in the scrapbook, so go check out the cuteness!
    6:12 pm
    Finally, some pictures!
    Woo, technology's tough! Ok, finally some pictures, but unfortunately haven't had time yet to label anything, just have them seperated into days so far.
    This ArtCar stuff is almost non-stop so far, but we had a few hours this afternoon to nap and upload photos before we go out to the next event! The Symposium at the ArtCar Museum. Chris is gonna hang out with his brother tho tonight.
    Big parade tomorrow!!
    http://pics.livejournal.com/aka_bruce/
    1:01 am
    here in Houston!!
    Well, didn't get any internet till Houston, and no time yesterday. I tell ya, this art car stuff is tiring! So, just a quick entry, then need to go bed.
    I need to up early to meet at the Zoo for the Main Street Drag where we go visit schools and hospitals.
    Tonight was the ArtCar Ball, which was a lot of fun.
    Night before was the out of towners welcome party, also, much fun!

    Our drive out was great, staying at the Wigwam Hotel and the Blue Swallow Motel, two classic Route 66 hotels was pretty awesome. The Blue Swallow was lovely as the hotel owners were super nice, so it was a very homey stay there!

    Should have some time after the Main Street Drag and before the Art Car Symposium (some talks and performances at the ArtCar Museum) to post some pics I hope! Need to get the pics off the memory card so we can take more!

    Weather has been pretty good, today was not humid at all! I do not do well in humid weather. Wed was humid, as a storm went thru just to the north. (Dallas was also v. humid, and tornadoes went thru just northeast of Dallas the night we stayed there, we saw all the lightning!) Supposed to heat up the next couple of days, getting more humid as poss thunderstorms on Sunday.
    Friday, May 5th, 2006
    9:05 am
    Itinerary - Return
    Mon May 15th
    Houston to Austin, TX, we are trying to arrange a visit to the Cathedral of Junk in Austin, and hopefully we'll have some BBQ for lunch somewhere.
    Austin to Sonora, TX, may possibly do a visit to Stonehenge II (a 1/2 scale replica of Stonehenge)

    Tues May 16th
    Sonora along I10 through Ft Stockton, TX and El Paso, TX to Las Cruces, NM
    Yeah, nothing really planned for this day, maybe we'll run across something really awesome! Or not :)

    Wed May 17th
    Las Cruces along I10 to Lordsburg, NM, then Hwy 80 to Douglas, AZ. In Douglas we're going to be visiting and staying with our art car friend Harrod, who has made many artcars, and done films and books about them. He's bought some property in Douglas and is turning it into an artcar compound of sorts. I think there a plans for some cars on display (some people's cars are retiring permanently there), and other arty stuff.

    Thur May 18th
    From Douglas we'll go to nearby Bisbee, a historic Copper mining town and we'll check out town for a while. Then taking Hwy 80 back up to I10, we go through Tombstone, AZ. Home of infamous OK Corral shootout, and Boothill Cemetery!. Then it's on through Tucson and Casa Grande to Phoenix, where we'll be spending the night. In Phoenix we hope to see the Mystery Castle and Mr Lee's Rock Garden, and hopefully dinner with a local artcar friend.

    Fri May 19th
    Here's where the caravan breaks up (actually Darrick will have already left as he's aiming to be back in the bay are this day). Emily is heading back to CA, and Marilyn and her sister are heading back to TX for a folk music festival.
    From Phoenix, Chris and I head out on US93 to Wickenburg AZ, Kingman, AZ, across Hoover Dam into Las Vegas, NV. Then on from LV north (back on US93) to Alamo. We'll hopefully enjoy a dip in the nearby BLM maintained hot springs at Ash Springs.

    Sat May 20th
    From Alamo we head up to Tonopah (via the Extra-Terrestrial Hwy past Area 51, woo!) then take Hwy376 up to Austin. There are many old ghost towns off of this hwy, and we will be visiting at least two - Belmont and Manhattan. These are supposed to be two really nice ones, lots of buildings and atmosphere.
    Depending on how long the ghost town touring takes, we may stay in Austin, or try to push onto Reno (or somewhere in between the two), this will be along Hwy50, the so called Lonliest Hwy. I've never found it that lonely, plenty of other hwys in NV are quieter! But I'm probably just resentful becuase I got a speeding ticket on it about 9 years ago :)

    Sun May 21th
    heading home! Either from Reno, or parts east of Reno. Will probably be very glad to get home, not so glad to go back to work! Luckily with Memorial Day weekend making two short weeks for me when I get back, I'll have some quiet time to catch up.
    1:18 am
    ugh, bedtime now
    Ok, I'll try and do the return itinerary tomorrow.
    Trying to get everything ready and finished at work has been crazy, and I was there till 9:30pm tonight, and even got in early too, waah! I'm hoping Fri (now today, haha) won't be as bad. I still need to pack! I have some piles of things here and there, on a chair, the kitchen table, my dresser, but I have literally not put a single item into a bag yet, yikes!
    Good thing Chris likes to do most of the driving, I may be staying up all night Friday to do all of this! I need to dye my hair purple tomorrow night too! ;)
    1:04 am
    Itinerary - Houston
    Wed May 10th
    Out Of Towners Welcome Party - here I attempt to remember many names, and fail.

    Thursday May 11th
    nothing really during the day (probably artcar repairs and cleaning at least part of the day, haha), but this night is the ArtCar Ball! We get all dressed up in our wackiest costumes and dance the night away.

    Friday May 12th
    Main Street Drag - this is apparently lots of fun. We meet at the Houston Zoo, and we're already prearranged into at least half a dozen groups of about 10 art cars, then we each have a leader and route of schools and/or hospitals etc to bring the artcars to the people, and especially to the people that might not be able to make the parade. We've done similar things at our ArtCar Fest here in the bay area, one year we visited an elementary school, and another we went to Oakland Children's hospital. They were both wonderful, and very rewarding.

    At night, is the ArtCar Symposium at the ArtCar Museum. There will be talks, film and presentations from artcar artists.

    Saturday May 13th
    The parade!!! I'm number 51, so I need to start lining up early around 8am-9am I think is my window. We queue up to go to the judging area to have our picture taken, then judging, then we are directed over to where we're lined up by fabulous volunteers in our parade order. THe public is invited to come check out the cars while we're all waiting and lined up, then the parade starts at 1pm

    THat night is the illuminated cruise, an informal cruise around town of lit up art cars. I didn't have the time or energy to put my lights on Bruce, so I may give this a miss, but perhaps catch up with them later.

    Sunday May 14th
    Brunch and awards cermony at the Orange Show. We also get our gas/travel reimbursement cheques then. You can apply for that when you send in your application, and with gas prices being what they are, of course we all did! I was pleasantly surprised at how much we are getting, it won't cover all of the gas, but I hope at least half of it. Very grateful to the Orange Show org for their generousity and hard work in making that happen! Our tax refund should fund the rest of our trip (more gas, Best Westerns and greasy food, haha)
    12:54 am
    Itinerary - Outbound
    Sat May 6th
    Bay area to either Barstow, CA, or hopefully all the way to Needles, CA (I40)

    Sunday May 7th
    Barstow or Needles along I40. Through Kingman, AZ, and Flagstaff, AZ. Then a side trip down to Cornville to see Eliphante (www.eliphante.org). Then back up to I40 to Holbrook, AZ where we're going to stay in the Wigwam Motel!! I'm really excited about this, it looks so fun and cheesy.

    Monday May 8th
    Holbrook along I40, thought Gallup, NM, Alburquerque NM (with a trip to www.Tinkertown.com), Santa Rosa, NM, and staying the night in Tucumcari, NM. Tucumcari is a Route 66 town, and apparantly has some fun old neon, like at the hotel we're going to stay at, www.blueswallowmotel.com. Every room gets it own little garage!

    Tuesday May 9th
    Tucumcari along I40 to Amarillo, TX, where we'll pay homage at the Cadillac Ranch. Then off onto Hwy287 and through Wichita Falls, TX and Decatur, TX. Then over to Denton, TX and onto the I35 that we will take to just west of downtown Dallas. We'll be picking up a Seattle artcar friend there, who is out for an art thing, and visiting and staying with her brother. Her brother is having us all over for a BBQ dinner this night, YUM! He's also a photographer, so we get to check out his latest pics of mexican wrestlers, cool!

    Wed May 10th, down I45 to Houston!!!
    at 6pm is the Out Of Towners Welcome party.

    Luckily, Chris's folks are from Houston, and live not far from downtown (where most of our events are), so we get to stay with them.
    12:50 am
    12:40 am
    Welcome to akaBruce's journal of his trip to Houston!
    Welcome! It's finally almost here! We leave Sat morning, waaaay too early, to start our trip to Houston, for the ArtCar Parade, the countries oldest and biggest. There will be almost 300 cars there!
    I created this journal so you could check out where we're going on our road trip there and back, and to see the photos I'll hopefully (with good tech luck and hotel internet connections!) be posting.
    There are 4 ArtCars leaving from the bay area, and we're caravanning out together, which will be really fun. A group of ArtCars is always an eye catcher! However, caravanning with artcars can be looong. People always like to take pics and chat when we stop. Of course we love it, but you need to budget it into your time! So, a group of 4 will hopefully stay pretty mobile. You get too many artcar artists driving in a group, and all they want to do is get gas, get food, stop to pee, or shop at a thrift store they just saw, and all at different times! Haha.
    So, there's me (and Chris), with Bruce the Quilt Truck, Emily in the VainVan, Marilyn and her sister in Come Play With Me, and Darrick in Discordia.
    Oh boy, I still got a lot of packing to do, and sleep! Sleep would be nice! But first, I'm gonna post the FAQ I just wrote up for Bruce, to go in his window. Quite a few artcars have FAQ's on them, cause although we love chattin to fans, answering the same old questions... :)
    I'll also write up some brief notes on our itinerary.
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