Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Today was a good day. I needed that little roadtrip. :)

La Conner was a neat little artsy town.

Today's Trip: Monuments

ALL HAIL PHAROAH RUCKER

Today's Trip: Statues

Today's Trip: ...water....

Today's Trip: CHERRY BLOSSOMS!

Today's Trip: Landscapes

You'd think that's a natural break-water there, right? ...look closer.

Today's Trip: Buildings and Structures

Today's Trip: Art! ^ .^

The Story of La Conner's late lamented favorite pup, "Dirty Biter."

I've decided that this is a pro-trans statement.

THEY. HAVE. FRIED. CATFISH.

Last year, my parents put my car through a little accident. I decided I wasn't going to do any forest road tripping until it got fixed. After taking it to a mechanic, he basically said the repair costs were more than the car was worth.

Normally, I'd say "DO IT ANYWAYS" but I had a job that paid well, and I was looking at replacing Click with a pickup. Well, I lost the job, the truck isn't happening, and Click is still broken (in fact, I just noticed part of the skid plate has torn off and I'm trying to figure out wether that's from something I hit, or someone trying to get at my catalytic converter).

I still want to roadtrip, and I still want to see what's out there. But I've never really explored like I did the Texas Hill Country. I go places, yeah, but I was exploring the mountains and the forests, but not the towns around here to see what they have to offer.

I'd previously divided the state into "sections" and back in the day, I could drive as far out as Houston from Austin and back in a full day. That was 150 miles...

I needed a trip to cheer me up, and seeing as I had a full tank of gas, and it was a nice day, I decided to go ahead and do some exploring....

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1ZUINXqoJCUiTjKXtVYYJ812csB0_xGs&usp=sharing

Today's Inner Monologue...

"Do I go to the Qdoba in the town full of white supremacists, or the one in the crowded mall?"

"How MANY white supremacists...."

Gets me every time....

Checking on the encode of my Robot Carnival DVD, and...well...anytime I pop that in, everything stops so I can watch the "Prescence" segment....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vHCxKeMNk8

When the Remastered Robotech series came out, I was really on the fence about getting it. I have the original DVDs, and those are what I remember as a kid, so it was all I needed.

I eventually bought the remastered series a few years ago to replace my aging original DVDs. They did leave a lot of the original footage that was cut out for the American release so I decided to keep the original DVDs for the original editing.

I never compared them side by side, though. Holy cow, that remastering makes the show look completely different. I'm guessing they used the ADV Macross remaster as the base for Robotech Remastered, but seeing the larger viewing area more saturated colors and TONS less grain was worth the purchase.

Even if I didn't know it at the time, or even notice it till today....

This seems way more threatening than it is....