4th of july, monmouth junction nj

me and maria

just me

a couple of road trip pix from last year

so i'm slowly figuring out how to do this picture thing. not really very difficult, as you can see below. i guess when we're on the road, you just download your digital pix into this free website, and then publish them to your blog. i think i can do this. it would be so much better to be able to post a few pictures along the way, rather than me just foaming at the mouth here, so to speak...by the way, these 2 pix are matt's. thanks pal.

Champagne & lemon sorbet, mmmmmm

Matt, Miguel, me, Michael, Pamplona July 2004 It's 11am, must be time for champagne and lemon sorbet!! We're in some bar upstairs on the main square.

After dinner Patxaran in Pamplona, July 2004.
That's me, my son Michael, and our friend Matt. We're enjoying a drink after a fabulous dinner in Pamplona.

the sea inside, 'mar adentro' in spanish

no i'm not out on the road yet. but we went to see this movie yesterday. WOW. it has immediately jumped into my all-time favorite movies list. this is a story about a man in spain who when young, dove into the ocean and broke his neck. he was a quadripilegic the rest of his life. it is about the right to die when one chooses to do so voluntarily, given this type of extreme circumstance. it is supposed to be based on a true story. it is such a powerful movie that at the end of the movie not one person in the theater got up for several minutes. it grabs your emotions and does not let go. you become totally engrossed in the story of this man and his caring family and the friends around him. it is extremely well-acted, all the characters are very well done. it won the academy award for best foreign language file. it also won awards in europe i think. anyway, very very highly recommended viewing.

starting off

so this is my new blog. i'll try not to bore you with any extraneous bs. although, life is always more than it seems at any given moment. sometimes it's the little things that mean the most. you know the little corner of the big picture. kind of like the bosch painting. there's shit happening everywhere, not just where we're looking.

so as my brotherinlaw miguel and i go off on our trip to find america, i'll keep you posted. if i can figure this thing out, maybe we'll even get a few pix in the mix too. i suppose we'll find internet access in the places we go.
so if you're reading this, thanks. and you really should make better use of your free time...jh