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[Annie]

Well… there seem to be quite a few who travel on this board so I’m interested in some advice.  In a week and a half I’ll head westward to meet my better half in California.  

I’m in no rush and I have an awesome co-pilot/tent protectress.


okay, trust me.  she looks meaner when she's awake.



It’s a derby tour so I can get bruised and inappropriately felt by the southern women of this country.  

I’m open for suggestions for my spare time.

Rough itinerary:

-Atlanta
-maybe Huntsville, AL & Memphis
-Biloxi
-Austin
-El Paso No derby there.  GET ON BOARD EL PASO!
-Tucson
-Las Vegas

Finally stopping at my new home in Los Angeles – www.angelcityderby.com/


Any suggestions for the trip are welcome.

Any suggestions for LA are welcome too.  I’ve never been.  I imagine I’ll be able to find a computer tech job (I hear they have computers there???).  If not I can always fall back on that ‘safety’ audio degree of mine.  

hahahaha

Thx.

 Annie

[Barry Hufker]

I looked at a map of Route 66, the Great Mother Road (that's a good thing!).  I suggest whenever possible you travel on it.

In LA you must visit the Getty Museum: http://www.getty.edu/museum/

I'm much older than you but I enjoyed touring LA, visiting streets mentioned in 50s/60s Rock and Roll songs (Beach Boys/Jan & Dean).  They are places that sounded kind of hip and fantastic when I heard them on the radio as a kid.  It was fun driving on them for a few minutes.

Mann's Theatre (used to be known as Grauman's Chinese Theatre) is a must, along with the walk of fame.  Very touristy.  Very fun.

As you make your new home in LA, let me just say there are opportunities everywhere in the U.S. to be inappropriately felt by women.  So you should feel right at home.

Barry

[Steve Hudson]

Check out our roller derby scene here in Austin:

http://www.txrollergirls.com/

The Putas del Fuego rock!

Try the Salt Lick (just southwest of town) for barbecue, Chuy's on Barton Springs for Tex-Mex, Magnolia Cafe for breakfast (24/7), the view from Mt. Bonnell, the SRV statue on Town Lake, Barton Springs Pool, the exodus of bats from under the Congress Ave bridge every sunset, and Austin's most celebrated transvestite, Leslie Cochran:

[Fibes]

Miles and I are gonna miss you.

That said, you should be working in a studio where they want someone who can light up the room, wrangle a PC into compliance, wear horns when appropriate, handle jack-ass musicians with aplomb and can even protect sissies from lightning.

[Die BREMSSPUR]

If you do the Tuscscon thang...

Just make sure you catch the Painted Desert...

I mean..don't drive through it at night.

It's fantastic...

Of course...Grand fukken Canyon..

Death Vaje..

I would say...hang out with "the people" on a Res and catch some peyote....

Read a Carlos Casteneda volume before you go...

Don't get into it because he is full of shit but it's fun nevertheless.

St. Louis...

Chicago...If you've never had the Deep Dish Pizza...you are missing out...don't listen to radicals who blaspheme by saying it's the same in Valdosta....cause it fukken AIN'T!  Don't let people from Chicago tell you the city is significant beyond Deep Dish and the Blues Brothers....It's just Cleveland only more boring...but you have to see it.

Kansas City..since you're going to St. Louis anyfukkenway...

Phoenix...super boring...stick with the north...I would definitely stop in Albuquereuwzeque...I lived there for a year and only met one person that was interesting but what a beautiful place...and Taos...and...

UTAH!!!!  What a wonderful place!  Southern UTAH has a State park with rock formations that are more impressive than the Vatican.

The Southwest...

You could spend years there checking out all the springs and shtuff...

Colorado..

The Rockies are so beautiful...just like staring into the eyes of  a goddess...




Sorry you have to leave...you're young so you still pull that shit...

I know you will miss your friends and I feel sorry for them....

Georgia is the worst place on earth....




With the best people....






Good luck...


very excited for you!





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[Andy Peters]

Die BREMSSPUR wrote on Wed, 18 October 2006 11:48

If you do the Tuscscon thang... Just make sure you catch the Painted Desert...

The Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest National Park are about 260 miles north of Tucson, so it's a day's drive out of the way.

But worth the drive, and a nice trip is to go from there to Grand Canyon (and stay at the El Tovar ...), then continue west over the Hoover Dam.

As for Tucson, well, we've got Cactus.

-a

[Annie]

Thanks for the kind words, suggestions and trannies everyone.

I will sorely miss Savannah, all the crazies and the lightening that comes for them.



I'm excited about Tucson, I just heard from them that I can come and skate.  
Austin TX also invited me to roll.  They are the foremothers of derby and win every championship.  

they are going to kick. my. ass.

Barry Hufker wrote on Wed, 18 October 2006 11:22

...let me just say there are opportunities everywhere in the U.S. to be inappropriately felt by women.  So you should feel right at home. Barry

God Bless America.