Out of town...

After enjoying some of the best of SXSW, meeting up with some new friends and hanging out with some old friends, I snuck out of town.

It was nice to drive away on Friday, my pets happily in the care of out of town friends. An old Seattle friend was in Dallas, and we had a great time catching up. This put me close to another dear friend in Fort Worth and I happily shuttled between them.

I went to the stockyards for the first time in a very long time. That area still makes me feel like a kid again. It's mostly tourist shops and "cowboys" doing rope and whip tricks, but tucked behind the main drag, just behind and to the left of the White Elephant Saloon, is the corral for the stunt/show horses. These are some of the friendliest horses you'll ever meet. It's still fun to sneak back there and visit with them.

No trip to Fort Worth is complete without a trip to Town Talk Foods. It's full of a crazy mix of dented, jumbled things, everything from organic dark chocolates for .15c to organic soup mix for .59c. It's crazy and I love to go there...I'm not sure why. (It's safe, just don't buy the meat.)

On the way home, traffic was stop and go outside of Fort Worth, so I headed for the back roads. The upper hill country was green and lush. I love seeing the mini spotted donkeys in a spring pasture.

I came home to find Karen, Nisha and Debbie driving up with snow cones. Karen and I both had dinner plans, but afterwards we stayed up late and chatted with Ryan.

This morning, I woke up early, and had a nice run through the muddy shoal creek trail. I came back to find Ryan and Karen drinking coffee and enjoying the Kolaches I brought back from West. After a lunch with friends, I took Karen to the airport for her flight home. I miss that girl. She's doing great things in NYC, yet she's someone you'd like to have around more often. We were lucky to have her for a week...


I've just finished the last bit of tax prep. for Storie and JOB. This week, I'll book the rest of the trip to France, edit part 2 of Roadside and hope that Jonathan can help me with the title of that Romanian film I saw about 10 years ago and never forgot (except for the title...)