...

Limo to the airport

The official Horseshoe High-Roller Limo is eager to whisk us off to the airport as none of us gamble.

View from the Horseshoe Casino, Shreveport, LA, room 2219

The room looks like it was decorated by a blind Liberace guided by seeing-eye whores, but the view is nice.

The tram at Dallas-Ft. Worth airport

Newest, and almost shortest Step, Felicia Curry, learns why we hate DFW.

American Airlines flight 1271

Neether TW nor I are pleased with the filled-with-actual-frat-and-sorority-types-drunkenly-leering-at-each-other nature of this flight. It's freakin' 6am. Grump, grump, grump...

Arlington

The owls seem truculent and somewhat discomfitted. Screw them,I say.

Good night sweetheart, it's time to go-o...

So long, farewell, auf weidersein, adieu...

The Willard

The final book of Shelby Foote's multi-volume definitive opus on the history of the Civil War begins right here: with Ulysses S. Grant walking up the front steps of the Willard Hotel in DC.

Aaaaargh!

Sadly, things always have to get worse before they get better.

Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC

TW also wonders why there are hangers all over the piano.

8:30 in the am

Very pleasant. Mom, you'll have to help me figure out what kind of plants I can put on those little wooden shelves when it warms up. Facing south and sunny, something should thrive, right?

Living room...

Fewer boxes...some books up. Incrementally inching towards comfort...

Had some help today. Always like a little help. :)

Bedroom...

Mamaw's cabinet, Papaw's chair, and me needing a haircut, all at the same time!

Things are slowly coming together...

But where are my pants?

...becomes One Full Place!

Two empty places...

Big Mirror...

... + tiny Mexicans = hopefully very little disaster!

In the process...

I am not sanguine about the current situation. We shall see.

Burlington Int'l Airport

Well, we seem to be boarding, so keep your fingers crossed...

Burlington,VT

Hmm. Snowing. Not hard, but getting stuck here would muck things up on a GRAND scale.

Rough town, Burlington

Apparently a violin was murdered behind the theatre last night. We're all a little nervous...

The Flynn Theatre, Burlington, VT

Adjusting the lighting array.

Near Branson, VT

You so rarely see a camel tromping through the snow...

Scenes from Vermont

Rutland, VT

Reaching for the rafters onstage at the glorious old Paramouht.