Cross-country drive | Moving to San Francisco
July-August, 2000
The route
 
Farewell picnic, Castle Island, Boston: Rebecca encounters a Tall Ship
 
Joanna gets eaten by her own hair
 
Bill makes a break for it
 
Gregg pitches in as the effort continues
 
Gretchen and Rachel remain aloof
 
Alex’s superior height leads to triumph . . .
 
. . . as onlookers marvel at his grace and prowess
 
The ugly aftermath
 
Happy picnickers
 
Cutest Couple award recipients
 
Joanna survived her hair
 
Group photo #1: Not ready
 
Group photo #2: Ready
 
Self portraits with hosts, #1: Galen
 
Self portraits with hosts, #2: Lesley Lundeen & Tom Chen
 
Self portraits with hosts, #3: Marjorie Obermayer
 
Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece
 
Top of a boulder
 
Bottom of the boulder
 
Wright’s trademark “cornerless windows”
 

 
Terrace over the driveway
 
There’s that boulder again
 
Main living/entertaining area
 
View out the window
 
Hearth
 
The floor of the hearth is that same damn boulder
 
Main terrace
 
Built-in cantilevered desk
 
Leather butterfly chair
 

 
Walkway
 
Stairway to the servants’ quarters
 
A lighting detail on a stairway
 
Battle Creek, Michigan: Kellogg’s Cereal City U.S.A.
 
Welcome!
 
Flake it! Explode it! Extrude it!
 
Some kind of... multimedia... cereal... thing
 
Manufacturing cereal
 
A key machines in the Corn Flakes-making process
 
Thousands of little cereal box covers
 
Ha ha, I’m twelve
 
Lake Michigan: Gosh, climbing a 450-foot pile of sand must be extremely exhausting.
 
See? I told you!
 
Sadly, this was a pretty accurate description of this motel.
 
The 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge joins Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas
 
Upper Peninsula, Michigan: Pictured Rocks National Seashore
 
“Miner’s Castle”
 

 

 
Wisconsin: Did I mention I’m twelve?
 
Illinois: The Frank Thomas House, by Frank Lloyd Wright
 
Self portraits with hosts, #4: Edina
 
Edina’s cat Nephthys
 
Colorado: Thad’s Restaurant
 
Self portraits with hosts, #5: Sol Kim and Jessica Bowers, not necessarily in that order
 
Central City, Colorado, renowned for opera and gambling
 
Sol and Jessica at the Wal*Mart in Idaho Springs
 
Central City from Sol’s porch
 
Goofy Sol, at home
 
Sol, Jessica, and housemate
 
To get to Idaho Springs you have to travel the terrifying, appropriately so-called “Oh My God Road.”
 
Goofy Sol seeing me off
 
Self portraits with hosts, #6: Debby Alterman, with Cleo
 
Boulder: The memorable site of PF2K
 
US-40: two lane highways are a lot slower, but there are rewards
 
Utah: Starvation Dam and Reservoir.
 
Salt Lake City: “Deseret Mortuary—Service Above All”
 
Me, at the Bonneville Salt Flats
 
Nevada: What's wrong with this picture?
 
San Francisco: After 27 days and 5,000 miles, I made it and I've still got most of my hair!
 
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