Avalon in NYC!

a few years ago when I was getting ready to move to Philly (& no, it never happened), I finally got to meet one of my favorite penpals ever; Avalon. This girl is beautiful, inside & out. Her art is amazing; visit her site and support her at www.avalonclare.com. Anyway, she came to Brooklyn today and I was lucky enough to spend a few hours with her...


wall art i found while walking to meet them, in hipster capitol of the world; williamsburg, brooklyn


"so what should we do...?"


we went into buy drinks but spent half the time looking at the cat




we stopped inside brooklyn industries


and then took off to the park


getting comfy


avalon & ashleigh


i love her tattoos and her shoes. this girls got serious style.




gorgeous, or absolutely gorgeous. take yr pick.






so we left the park and went to ashleigh's house. avalon had to get directions back to chinatown to catch the chinatown bus to philly, so i went with her on my way home.




broken hearts and beautiful girls


avalon & i took a smoke break for getting on the train, and i took the time to photograph her, of course!




blowing kisses vs exhaling a cigarette


leading the way to the subway




there's a reason she takes hearts & names




moment of recollection




love.her.






right before she got on the bus

Hello Brooklyn!

We made it to Brooklyn with great timing...


Sarah, afer she stepped out of the parking deck (in my hoodie :))


& Me.. too many camera bags and no, i could not have actually gotten a bigger computer :D
(sarah's photo)


The view of 3A from the elevator
(sarah's photo)


stepping inside...


talk about a spacious kitchen


The balcony & view!


What everyone wants to see as soon as they walk in :D :D
(sarah's photo)


Rian's Room.. I would kill to have window light like that.. gorgeous.


Mikey's room and our shit


Taking over


Sarah as a human scale to show just how insanely large and open the rooms are

So we lasted about five minutes in the apartment before we couldn't hold our excitement in any longer and booked it on up to the roof...


taking it all in


yes, I had a beer as soon as we got in. &
yes, I totally deserved it after driving 15 hours


okay, it's sunk in! now i'm cheezin'...


...but not cheezin' as hard as sarah haha


yeah, we're up high as hell :D


Coming back down...

Roadtrip! Sunday 11 May 2008

Sarah and I left around 4:30pm on Sunday afternoon -- destination Brooklyn. We met at the kennel to say goodbye to Lynn & TJ, who are more family than friends.


Saying our goodbyes... & yes, TJ is my Weezy double and he may even be hotter than Mr. F....TJ, I miss you so much. You're the only man for me... patron partners for life baby :)


Let's go! (Messy, wind blown hair for life)


BF's! (MINUS LAUREN :( :( :()




No, I did not drive 90mph the whole way... but I sure as hell made great timing the first two hours...


Sunshine!! & This is about when I slowed down :D hahah


Say goodbye to the sunshine... & hello to the sunset...




I've got longer eyelashes than you ;P

So about 100 miles outside of DC, give or take a few, we started hitting really really really REALLY bad traffic. It had been sprinkling rain the whole time, but it just started pouring around there and didn't let up for the rest of the way. As you saw I was making great timing... and then I didn't go over 30mph for 4 fucking hours because of the traffic & rain. Absolutely miserable. I couldn't even find a gas station to stop at for over 15 miles because every exit said "ramp closed due to flooding..." It was freaking insane. My car is an element, literally - just a box on wheels. I thought we were going to be picked up and flipped over by the wind no less than 6 or so times (and let me reiterate - I was actually scared we would)




We finally found a 7Eleven and it was disgusting and about 40 degrees outside and that's what I get for wearing a sports bra, goddamnit.




Around 2am, Sarah was passed the fuck out and I was still at a deadstop.

Okay, so around 3am I started getting ridiculously tired. I had stopped once in 11 hours at that point.. so I got off road and decided to stop at my favorite woman in the world's house -- my Grandma Gen. We got there at around 5am and I crashed... hard.