I just have a second, but wanted to check in and say that we are doing fine in Tuxtla Gutierrez. We had about a 30 hour bus ride and arrived late last night. We are glad to be with Jessica and Edwin, and celebrated by going to a discoteca and getting down to some Regeton. [...] Continue Reading »
checking in
2halfway
4Last night we arrived in Donna at about 7:00 and parked the car after about 1500 miles for the trip. I have a second cousin, whom I’d never met in person, who is a silversmith and has been here about 16 years. He’s been helpful in helping us coordinate this trip every step of the [...] Continue Reading »
day 2 and 3
2This is Ashley taking an Etsy package to the Texarkana post office, across from the coffee stop I left you yesterday. Route 59 got us to Houston with a few stops for photos and thrift shop rummaging. Listening choices Ben Folds, Spanish CDs, and the White Stripes. We left 59 in Houston to head to [...] Continue Reading »
day 1
6(Levon who is listening to Evansville Indiana’s American Analog) At 10:00AM we departed Madisonville, KY. The music choice was the French Kicks. Stopped in Memphis to walk down Beale St. and have a dose of some outdoor blues. We were optimistic about the day’s warmth overriding the weather man’s call. 2/3 of the way across [...] Continue Reading »
pictures i like: sibling histories (a new painting)
0[ from addair who is listening to Bob Dylan (Another Side of Bob Dylan) ]
itinerary
5(from Levon who is listening to Angel from Montgomery by John Prine) Two days until we head off again, and we are nearly ready to go. This time to a village in the jungle near Tuxtla Gutierrez, a city in the southernmost state of Mexico. We’ve been trying to get this off the ground since [...] Continue Reading »
pictures i like: making our own fun
2[ from addair who is listening to Del McCoury (El Corazon) ]
brothers travels
2My brother and I went to visit our grandparents last week in Dukedom, TN and Salem, KY. It was just like getting dropped off as kids, except my not so little brother drove, we left our Ashleys at home, and Ryan went to work everyday at his new appointed State Farm agency in Murray, KY. [...] Continue Reading »
a dense collection of lines
2[ from addair who is listening to Diana Krall (The Girl in the Other Room) ] Finally, I feel that I’m making progress in painting for the show. The first one in the series (pictured here) is about hope versus hopelessness. I approached the question through MLK’s conception of time. In his Letter from [...] Continue Reading »