Getting ready for Summer 2010

Today Carrie and I spent 45mins having lunch at Wahoo's and 15.3 mins doing a Head Shot photo shoot of each other...lunch with friends is always GOOD! It's fun to have a new Head Shot for this year...now I need to think of a bio...humm...

Sawdust Art Festival-SUMMER 2010 is HERE!!!

The sun and water has finally warmed up enough to layout, catch some rays, and snorkel in just a bikini!! I am READY!

Rough day in the office yesterday! ;)...Here are a few shots

I got "working" at the Montage Beach of lil' Jon (Alicia Burke, Berman's son) and snorkeling.

Sawdust Booth Pick Day was on Tuesday.

After being forced to come home early from a memorable weekend in Hawaii for this "can not miss day" I ended up with Booth Number 112 for this summer in the Sawdust Art Festival!

The Sawdust is June 25-August 29, 10am-10pm Daily.

This is a picture of my booth plot. Yes, that tree is in it! That is Gavin Heath, Sawdust exhibitor and friend, giving me advice on what could be POSSIBLE to do with this spot!

Booth Building starts next monday!

Here is Allison Keefe and Carrie Zeller's Booth 416 & 417.

Booth Pick Sawdust Art Festival 2010

So the 2010 Sawdust Art Festival is on it's way!!! Today was booth pick day, with a really high number I was one of the last few to pick! But I'm in and that is all that matters sometimes! Come see me this summer at the Festival 2010 at Booth 112!

Gaven and me in my new booth spot!

BOOTH #112

Cozumel, Mexico

Sometimes it's overwhelming traveling taking photos and being so busy when I return home....that getting to edit photos from a trip can take months! Even years!....still haven't edited photos from my hike across Spain!!

Here are some photos that I took at the end of last year on the island of Cozumel. We snorkeled on a reef by boat one day, went for the day to Cankanab Underwater Park, and also found a restaurant front snorkeling spot another day! It really is amazing there!

SAVE OUR OCEANS!! If these photos and the others that I have on my website don't convince you...well then we need to talk!!

Sawdust Festival 2009

It's here!!! With the help from my friends and family we have been able to build my booth from scratch and Preview night was a success!

The Sawdust Festival opens tomorrow, Friday June 26th to the public. Come on down and come see me at Booth #101...you can catch my new photos! Big waves from Kauai and underwater adventures from Mexico to Aruba!

Disneyland or Sanitago??

So one walks for almost a month and ends up at Disneyland??

It makes you miss the wheatfields and small...I mean SMALL villages!!

We got our certificates today! Soooo exciting...but I think getting another beer might be more exciting than this town! HAHH!!

It feels great to be done and running into Pilgrim friends at the front of the Cathedral!

We are all heading out today and tomorrow...but to reunite again next year I´m sure!

Mary and I are heading back to Barcelona tomorrow to catch a flight HOPEFULLY on the 28th! Keep your fingers crossed...not looking sooo good....luckily after we get to Philly it´s wide open!

Tomorrow it is official...

TOmorrow we will all go together to the Cathedral with Mary in a Taxi and get our certificates of completion! It WILL be framed!!

In town is the festival of Santiago..we reached it here for the festivities...but in reality...I think we all have something more to celebrate!

We will probably not do to the festival and keep that for another time!!

I will be either coming home 25-27. If I continue home alone I will try and make a stop either in Texas to see Sean, Chicago to see Geordan, or Aaron in Sacramento. Depends on flights and time.

4.5 kms...to Santiago..

Today we woke up and spent about 5 hours at the hospital. Everyone is ok...but Mary can´t walk. We took a taxi from the Pilgrim Village...got her X-Rays and she got a shot in her hip. The doctor said it was cause of too much walking...hummm...that is a genius explanation!! HAHAH!! Reality is, is that everyone there was really nice and helpful!

We got her to the Albergue and our friend Lorenzo went to the Pharmacy to get her perscription. The doctor said nothing is broken, no fractures, and it´s just swollen tendons. She said, the doctor, that she just needs to rest and will be ok in 2-3 days.

I took a taxi back to the village and completed the walk with some friends into Santiago while Mary rested to get better. In reality we all feel that we reached it last night after the horrible day-night of walking!

BUT....we are here..in Santiago!! YEAHH!!

TOmorrow we will see how Mary is doing...she will either come home with me in a few days...or if she starts feeling better like the doctor says she will stay and continue her journey.

The last 40kms...

Today we walked 36 kms to the last town 4.5kms outside of Santiago...today was 13 hours on the trail. The pains are slowing us all down!

I think Mary is my new hero!

We arrived at the ¨Pligrim Village¨ about 11pm in the dark and pouring down rain...this day was everyone´s worst!

Rainy Days are here...

For the few past days it has been raining like CRAZY!!! It has been a really nice change from the blistering heat!

Day 15

We have walked soooo far we have reached Tahoe!! It´s amazing!! The town we are in is called something like...umm...Portomarine. And there is an amazing lake that crosses over it. The town originally was built as a single road..then they choose to rebuild it with moving the church stone by stone up the hill...flooding the town and put a water resivoir in. I guess it´s called the ¨Flooded Town¨ or something...

When we got here all the ALbergues were full except one that we luckily got in..it holds about 160 people..I feel like we are in a hospital zone or a war care place. we walk in to a HUGE room divided by sheets as walls to seperate the 4 rooms of about 20 bunk beds PER room!! It´s huge...I wonder if everyone here has Typoid???

Today was exciting to get to the lake town...to then realize that it was totally disgusting to get in....Mary and I just miss the beach so much I think we WANT the water!!

I saw goats today!! yeahh!!

Ok...last one...Day 13 going on 14...

We had an amazing Italian dinner cooked for us....I got to see the sunset...well not really, but the clouds turned pink!

BTW...please ignore the bad spellings..it´s really freaking hard typing on this foreign keybord..we got..çç and ¿¿¿¿ and such to deal with!!

Day...12

Leaving town early in the morning...this was RIGHT our of town...we have reached many towns with bridges and water now...

The first day...on the way...

Before we reached the church that we slept on the floor...this is the first day of a short walk outside of Pamplona to Cizar Minor.

Last blog for the night...

This is really taking too much time to upload these damn photos that I don´t know if I can do more...

I would love to later share the rain photos...our new friends...the churches....the wheat fields...the vineyards...the wine foutain...the river we jumped in yesterday...the hills we tortured up....the heat we escaped by crawling into a small stone hut on the trail...the nice Spainish people we have meet...the wine we drank...the small stone villages we stay in...the places we alomst died....later it will be documented and shared!!