The Strife of Brian

Jen and I carved some pumpkins. I think they turned out pretty good this year. Cornelius helps to complete the Halloween mood in the upper right. Spookie Scarie!

This is the last day of our vacation. I tried to find at least one thing I wanted to see in every state we visited. Farmount, Indiana is apparently the hometown of fifties rebel icon James Dean. We visited the small museum there and a very nice elderly lady showed us the artifacts on display. [...]

At Sun Studios I was informed that the Stax museum was already closed at that point int the day. I was also given directions which I promptly forgot. I decided I had to try anyway since I am a huge fan of Stax artists like Steve Cropper, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Al Green, etc, [...]

After the Graceland tour we looked for the Stax Records museum but got lost and decided to go to Sun first since I knew where that was. This is a shot of me standing inside the studio next to a giant photo of the Million Dollar Quartet. The tour included audio clips that told the [...]

We went to Graceland and took the platinum tour. I didn’t get very good photos because they do not allow flash photography. This is Elvis’white living room. This is my favorite The Jungle Room. During the tour a set of headphones gave us information about the King’s life. More jungle room. Jen liked the green [...]

We went to Bealle Street. I have always been a fan of the Blues and thought this should be a stop on our tour. Like a lot of the places we have been it was different than I imagined. It was pretty commercialized as I imagined but had fewer attractions than I thought it would. [...]

On the way out of Amarillo we went to the Cadillac Ranch. It was pretty far off the road and we were surprised to see it was unsupervised and had no gift shop. People paint there name and whatever on the Cadillacs then someone paints over the whole thing and the process starts again. We [...]

As we drove through the Texas panhandle I thought it would be funny to go to the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo. This is the place where if you eat the 72 ounce steak they give it to you for free. We did chose not to take on this challenge and ordered 12 ounce [...]

On the 21st day we visited the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. It was a good choice in my opinion. We toured the cliff dwellings and imagined what it would be like to live in them. This guy was annoying. He kept getting into every picture I was taking. Him and his life partner [...]

We left Las Vegas and traveled on toward the Zion National Park in southern Utah. By this time in the trip I was getting sick of hiking and I couldn’t remember why I wanted to go to the Zion park although it may have been I liked the name. On the road to Zion I [...]