So my friends it’s been a long strange trip. But not in that weird deadhead kind of way, in that SXSW road trip extravaganza kind of way.
I just got back from partying tonight in Austin and I called it a night pretty early because I gotta handle shit tomorrow at Emo’s.
yayay.
Anyways this has been one of the craziest road trips of my life. We’ve been eating a lot of mexican food, and hitting a lot of antique/thrift stores from Los Angeles, to Austin.
We left Eagle Rock pretty late, because Rony wanted to get his brakes fixed before we left (we didn’t haha). Then once we got on the road we made a few stops to take some photos in arizona. We did some work for Rony at kinkos in phoenix and I called my internet come real life DJ buddy E-Rock. He was super kind and let us stay at his pad in Tuscon, and when we got up the next morning at 7 am it was on the road again.
We drove through New Mexico (The land of Enchantment - Me and Margot from Keep both love that).
I saw a big teepee and requested we pull the fuck over. We did, rony took some more pictures, cuz that’s what he does. I bought a fanny pack, and fireworks because that’s what I do.
YAAAA NEW MEXICO IS AWESOME
Rony and Julie Taking Pictures (photo by skeet himself, rony’s got nothing on me)
Rony found these Locusts that had gotten burned by some wildfire that was started by some kids lighting off fireworks (not me I promise).
locust and lens
That day were trying to make it out to White Sands, New Mexico and we did. It was incredible. Rony was taking pictures, and drooling like he was in photographer heaven.
He was shooting Julie and Nature so I had to find my own model. Luckily I found this sultry little plastic vixen.
I made him look pretty fierce in the sand.
That’s him and me, we’re freaking cool.
I did some tacky sand shout outs. Hi Velvet Leaf Laura, she had a rough week so I thought i’d give her a shout out. She’s a role model also, high schools all over the country want her to speak to their children.
Rony finally got away from his film camera’s and took a pic of me with the Digi
I took some pictures of Rony and Julie
Then we booked it out of white sands and drove into the night. We got all the way to Van Horn, Texas. Which is pretty far.
We drove through El Paso and ate at Village Inn, Village Inn was like my sunday meal place with the family when I was growing up in Iowa. We would get Village Inn and then go to my grandma’s auction house, so it was cool to eat it again.
Anyways so El Paso’s pretty nut’s because you can see mexico right across the way, and it’s Night and Day compared to America.
I didn’t have any internet friends in Van Horn, so we crashed at some sketchy motel. I took a picture of Julie looking like a trailerpark princess.
Here’s me and Rony in front of our sketchy room.
Here’s me about to blow it up with my M-1000’s from new mexico
That’s also my new mexican fannypack. holler.
In Fort Stockton we had some awful mexican food, and some really good Lemonade. Rony asked for an “Arnold Palmer” and the lady looked at him like he was crazy. It was funny as fuck.
There’s a huge roadrunner in Ft. Stockton
There’s also a lot of Texan Pride.
Not to mention some dirty needles just chillin on the ground.
THIS WAS THE LONGEST POST EVER. I DJ TOMORROW AT EMO’S COME SAY HI!
-skeeter
