Archive for ‘July, 2009’
Road Journal: City by the Sea?
by Johnny the Urban Land Pirate on July 30, 2009 at 4:32 amToday we rolled into the “city by the sea” as Bob has now renamed Chicago. Special guy, that Bob. Chi-Town is awesome. It’s like NYC with a cooler vibe and less of a running around feeling to it. It’s strange. We headed to the Museum of Contemporary Art to start things off and WOW. What a bunch [...]
Some one decided we should do a journal of the trip together, and I got stuck with the first entry. And let me tell you: First day blues. Luck not be a lady tonight. Not with us. Instead, she was in the form of an overweight mechanic with two first names. Billy Joe or Billy [...]
For Sunday I only spent a couple hours at Comic-Con, I spent the rest of the day traveling down to Tijuana. It just so happens that I was there as México destroyed the U.S. 5-0 in the CONCACAF Gold Cup. It was awesome. The streets were full of flags and cheering, and only one person [...]
Didn’t take many pictures yesterday, just some crowd shots and some other interesting sights. Including that giant Galactus figure. Sweet.
Some more photo updates. Today I saw some Marvel panels and got to see some awesome previews of what’s coming up in the X-Men comics and from Marvel Animation. I spent the last chunk of today trying to win a bracelet to guarantee myself a spot in line to purchase the Amanda Visell wood labbit tomorrow [...]