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The rest of the H2o Pictures

Timbo — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:33:51 +0000

H2o Pictures from the show!

Timbo — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:31:36 +0000

Dinner!

Timbo — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:21:57 +0000

Pictures from Saturday before H2oi

Timbo — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:04:05 +0000

Washing the cars

Timbo — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:40:39 +0000

Friday night, The Crabby Dinner Run

Timbo — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:06:27 +0000

Convoy pics 2

Timbo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:15:42 +0000

Convoy Pics 1

Timbo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:24:05 +0000

Poor Raul!

Timbo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:28:04 +0000

Raul is not going to H2o International. He’s holding his registration enevelope which he is giving to G-rocco.

Raul’s Dinner

Timbo — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:07:04 +0000

Warm ceviche

Crabcakes, salad, corn

and for dessert? Crème Brûlée

The Trip is complete, but it’s not over!

Timbo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:35:51 +0000

The last capitol has been done. The 48 State Roadtrip is over! This weekend, I am driving to the show in Ocean City, Maryland- H2o International where I will show off the hood.

This site will stay here, archiving my trip. It will also serve as the blog for all of my future roadtrips - because I’m not even close to being done!!
Big thank-you to all who donated.

Dinner at It’s Nutts!

Timbo — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:06:45 +0000

Here are the pictures from dinner tonight!

Trenton, New Jersey’s state capitol

Timbo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:58:19 +0000

The group showed up!! We all met at the NJ state capitol - the last one. After our pictures, we went to eat at It’s Nutts - a great place on NJ route 29 we have all eaten before.

Working on cars, gas prices

Timbo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:03:49 +0000

We’re working on Paul’s car, installed a new Catalytic Converter. I am putting the mudflaps that JonnyPhenominon gave me in Maine.

Then we saw some cheap gas!!

S’mores!

Timbo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:45:29 +0000

On the porch, we have made a fire in the fireplace. This fire looks sorta like a skull, which is pretty neato!

Then we got to thinkin’ - S’mores!!! AWESOME!!

Dinner in NJ

Timbo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:08:29 +0000

Paul made dinner, it was very good.

Southwestern Chicken wings, chicken breasts with BBQ sauce, bacon, mixed cheese, some shells and cheese, and southwest mixed veggies. Dang good!

And, Sciroccojim explains his rear strut situation.

New Jersey

Timbo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:42:31 +0000

New Jersey officially has the record for cheapest fuel of the trip!!

I’m staying tonight with Paul and Lee (sciroccos4life and sciroccos4lifewife) in NJ.

Hartford, Connecticut

Timbo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:58:11 +0000

Met up with INTERNETRACECAR from the SomethingAwful forums at the state capitol of Connecticut.

Rhode Island

Timbo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:09:19 +0000

Rhode Island is the last of the 48 states that I have never visited before, and the third-to-last capitol of this trip. There was a marathon going on downtown in Providence, so I had to get a little creative, and I think it turned out much better than normal!

And as suddenly as I went into Rhode Island, I was out! ‘m headed for Hartford, CT now.

High Dynamic Range image

Timbo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:17:42 +0000

an HDR image is the combination of two images taken at different exposure levels. In this particular case, the people in the scene moved, leaving some rather strange effects. This produces an image that shows the colors of both input images.

High Dynamic Range Image

On the Cape

Timbo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:50:21 +0000

I met up with Eli (sharkytm on SomethingAwful and VWVortex), and we explored the cape here.

Then we went and ate at PI Pizza. New England style Pizza, it was quite good!

Timbo — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:54:26 +0000

Jonny filled me up with some gas, and I left Maine.

I drove down I-95, so I was in New Hampshire for like 15 minutes!

Then Boston. This was the one I was worried about, and I was right to - Saturday in a city designed YEARS before cars? Yeah. But I got a picture that’s actually not bad at all!!

Maine State Capitol

Timbo — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:18:20 +0000

I met up with Jon (JonnyPhenomenon on VWVortex) to take photos of the Maine State Capitol.

Now we’re eating breakfast in Lewiston, ME.

Lobster in Maine!

Timbo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:19:20 +0000

Got here to John’s place (crazyaboutrocs on VWVortex) in Bucksport, ME. He’s getting the Lobster ready!

Entering Maine

Timbo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:27:51 +0000

New Hampshire State Capitol

Timbo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:51:14 +0000

Wow! These little states are easy!!

Capitol of Vermont

Timbo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:27:08 +0000

This morning, I left New York for Vermont. The trees are just starting to change! Mtl-Marc met me at the capitol and signed my hood. Thanks, Marc!!

On to New Hampshire, and Maine!

New York State Capitol

Timbo — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:46:30 +0000

New York State Capitol

Visited Albany, New York today. Took photos of the downtown area. Then I drove to Amsterdam, NY - and Julie took me to the Windmill Diner for dinner.

Driving to New York’s State Capitol

Timbo — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:23:50 +0000

This morning, I bid Raul goodbye. Raul is the executive chef at a restaurant called Swanky Bubbles, which has a location in Center City Philadelphia, and also a location in Cherry Hill, NJ. Raul’s car was broken when I left, it is still broken, hence the “fix me”

I drove through NJ, and stopped by sciroccojim’s place to drop off a rear seat I had carried from echassin in Chicago to here. Jim bought me lunch at the Cafe California.

Now I’m in NY, heading for Albany.

Trip to New York

Timbo — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:14:20 +0000

It just happened that my grandpa was going up to New York to see the Queen Elizabeth 2 leave New York. This is the second-to-last time that it will be here before it retires to Dubai, the last time is in October, so the light will be gone on departure, so the best photos will be today.

We got into a 2000 Subaru Forrester, and I drove us up the NJturnpike up to Staten Island, New York. We took the ferry across, and then took the subway up Manhattan. We went to the pier area, and took a small ferry across to Weehauken, NJ to take pictures from a higher vantage point.

The QE2 was parked next to the Crystal Symphony at the pier, but the Symphony was not scheduled to depart until later tonight. We took photos with my camera, and my grandpa’s Nikon D40x.

Then we got back on the ferry, and took the subway down to Little Italy. There was a street festival. it was called the Feast of San Gennaro, and it happens every year. We ate dinner at Benito II - a great true Italian restaurant that is a tradition for us in New York visits.

Pennsylvania Welcomes Me!!

Timbo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:19:50 +0000

Muahahahahahaahahahaahah!! I’m back in my state!! (er, Commonwealth!!!)

Pennsylvania welcomes me. Well, thanks! :D McConnellsburg!! (My last name is McConnell)

West Virginia

Timbo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:27:49 +0000

Left Daun’s devastated area this morning. It really looked like a Hurricane hit. The highest recorded windspeed was actually at Clinton County Airport - the airport next to which we have the “Cincy” Scirocco get-together each year. The speed was 77mph!!

Anyway, I drove to West Virginia, and saw the capitol. The sign there says the capitol used to be in Wheeling, WV. That would have been SO much easier, dangit!!! It’s right on I-70, and I’ve driven through it a million times!

Airplane Destruction in Hurricane Ohio!

Timbo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:26:47 +0000

Drove to Dayton, OH. So far, so good.

The streets in Daun’s neighborhood were trashed. There’s trees down, power lines down, and general destruction. There’s also a LOT of sawdust in various places, this is half cleaned up.

This is Daun’s partner Brad’s Grumman airplane. The nose gear was being repaired, so the plane was being supported by an engine hoist, which twisted about. The roof ripped off the hangar

So, I’m here at Daun’s again. So far so good, but there’s no power here, and I doubt there will be for a long time.