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Just somewhere along the way.

Family meeting

Due to my aunt Carla’s assertiveness I was able to hook up with Joost, Amy and Oliver in Flagstaff, Arizona. Thanks Carla, I owe you one!

Grand Canyon

This is what I look like after walking down into the Grand Canyon. After 5 hours and 1.5 km height difference Marc and me arrived at this bridge over the Colorado River. The next day our trip back to the surface took us 7.5 hours.

Old School

Now this is the vintage, late-sixties single-lens reflex camera I've been using to shoot those black and white pictures. See dad, I'm taking good care of it!

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Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma. "Hunting" Buffalo and Longhorns.

Breakfast in Sedona

We've been sitting in this sandwich restaurant for hours enjoying the food, coffee, the view, the free internet and charging our batteries. You can't really blame us, can you?

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"Melrose Place", St. Louis, Missouri. Enjoying the hospitality of new-made friends.

Finally on the way

Meet the Torge S. It was photographed leaving Rotterdam and somewhere in one of those containers is a wooden crate with my stuff. Let's wish it a save crossing!

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Cloud Gate a.k.a. "The Bean", in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, reflecting the city's skyline. 

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Arriving in Austin, Texas, I found the time to develop the films I shot (yes, I'm not using a digital camera but a vintage late-sixties single-lens reflex camera I stole from my father). So I will be posting some pictures of places we have already passed.

Damen Station (Blue Line), Chicago, Illinois, looking towards "The Loop". What a fun city with so many options to take good pictures. This one was taken at a subway (which travels above ground most of the time, ironically) station in the direction of downtown, which is known as "The Loop".

Seymour Panthers 15 - Archer City Wildcats 33

Arriving in Texas we stumbled upon a little town called Archer City and we decided to stop and get some coffee. We ended up watching the local highschool football team play, together with what seemed the whole town, enjoying hamburgers and… well… soft drinks, it’s still highschool ya’ know!

Wendy's

We finally got around to taste Wendy's burgers. And to top it off, they were giving them away for free in Ashville. We followed up on this corporate american extravaganza with organic free trade coffee.

Abe

Falling Water

First destination was elected by Maaike: a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for a family that wanted him to put it near a waterfall. So he desiged to put it on top of it...

Road trip '08 Blog

It has taken us a while (so many impressions to digest) but our blog about our road trip in the USA is finally online. You can find it at http://www.marcschouten.com and we'll try to update it regular with impressions of Marc, Mark, Maaike and myself.

Our rolling house...

This is our home for the next ten nine weeks and we are already getting settled in and made it our home.

• Emergency food: check.
• Home-made clothesline: check.
• Large supply of coffee: check.
• Tom-tom: check.
• Harmonicas: check.
• Guitar: check.
• Ukelele: check.
• iPod FM zender: check.

If you think we forgot something don't hesitate to let us know! =]

Grand Central Station NYC

Can you get a more typical NYC experience than watching a couple of guys performing old school hip-hop underneath Grand Central Station in the subway station? I think not!

Last day in Chile

It has been way too long between updates, I know. I blame lousy internet connections and big city drawing my attention. Anyway, to start off again, see a picture I took my last full day in Chile. Claudia and I went to the local Zoo. It's located on a small mountain inside the city, so while you're looking at some exotic animals you get a really nice view of the city as well. 

.. a lo pobre!

There is nothing poor about it, but you can get anything here "a lo pobre". It means with fried eggs and fried unions on top, as in this case a nice sample of Chilean steak. Happy 18th of Septiembre (Independance Day)!

Chirimoya

cher·i·moy·a  (chr-moi) also chir·i·moy·a (chîr-) n. 1. A tropical American tree (Annona cherimola) having heart-shaped, edible fruits with green skin and white aromatic flesh. 2. The fruit of this plant.

I'm totally hooked on this fruit, especially it's juice. It's refreshing, not too sweet and according to Mark Twain "the most delicious fruit known to men." It still amazes me that I have never encountered it in Europe. So much for the globalized world...

The Office

The Gym

The Roof

The Jacuzzi

The Pool

First Light!

What better way to start off than to let you know that since last Thursday my nephew Sem Eugèn Benjamin was born. Still waiting for the pictures, but he and his mother are doing well. Welcome, little man.