Next stop, Austin, Texas for South by Southwest.
At the Make party:
Another fancy party, this time for Frog Design:
Petey the Boston Terrier made us feel very homesick:
Tash Glen and Tash:
The next day I visited the Capitol:
Which has a Confederate memorial:
On the way back to the conference, I wandered past Barack’s Austin campaign headquarters:
SXSW was rockin’, but how about a little less swag? This is incredibly wasteful:
This sums up Vegas, the water in the fountain at Caesar’s Palace is dyed blue.
We got a chopper out to the Grand Canyon. It was a breath taking trip, as we flew over Vegas twice, the Hoover Dam, and the Canyon itself.
The unmarked 737s with the red stripe take workers to Area 51:
The pilot and the Hoover Dam:
Over the canyon – none of the pics I took come anywhere near capturing its beauty:
On the canyon floor:
A blurry piccie of Vegas at night:
Also very cool! Even The King was there.
And Microsoft through a huuuge party at Tao at the Venetian. The view from Tao:
This is awesome! The new naval museum in San Diego aboard the USS Midway.
As I now have a USB cable I’ve been able to upload some photos.
San Diego is a cool town. Among the sites were the Pandas at San Diego zoo:
Then off to the Air and Space Centre. You’re greeted by the Apollo 9 capsule:
Apollo 11 unused food:
Phantom vs MiG:
SR71 Blackbird:
Giant magaritas in oldtown:
Just back at Mix from the indoor rifle range just out of town. Still have grease from the AK I fired. Tash had a go on an Uzi 9mm. Kinda fun but kinda scary at the same time, and some of the people at the range (although not the instructors) were pretty freaky.
Firing these things was f-ing scary, as you can probably see from the look on my face!
I’ve been using Picasa of late, you get a gig for free. Sweeeeeeeet.
It looked great when I took it, somehow I just couldn’t capture the ambiance…
