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General/ Fun stuff

 

[description - Kevin and I make a three minute audition tape for the TV show Amazing Race on CBS, a reality show where you'd travel the world to win a million bucks...]

[description - Since we live so far away from everyone that we love, we make home movies for all-in-the-family to enjoy. With my creative side at play (and a lot of money tied-up in equipment and software) I make full-blown movie productions out of it. This is an ending scene from one of those movies when my best friend Kevin, who came to El Paso to visit for a few weeks, was leaving. It was a rainy and sad day - we really wished he could stay even longer - but he needed to get back to California and to work at his Bistro. The ending credits are fun and it shows a lot of scenes with our family and friends, and some of the places we traveled to, all to the tune by the Corrs, called, "Breathless"...]

[description - Este's graduation to becoming an MD, from Texas Tech, held in Lubbock, Texas...]

[description - Gabrielle takes over the camera and interviews McLane and friends during her tenth birthday party, on favorite music, food, and more...]

[description - It's a triple-whammy - April 15th  (tax time), Easter Sunday, and Este's birthday! We celebrate all the occasions by taking Blue on a drive up to Transmountain in El Paso, and a hike up to the Aztec caves. Its only a mere two to three mile climb, roughly  forty-nine hundred feet above sea level, as I struggle to catch a breath on our way to the top...]

  • Transmountain in El Paso, Texas (part II of the video stream from above)

[description - Este's first time to Maryland. I take her to my parents beach house in the freezing cold of January to see Ocean City. After a very brief overnight stay, we head off to Washington DC instead, and to the Smithsonian Institute...]

[description - Ed and Jo (the Maggots), tag-along with Este and I on a tour of the Smithsonian. We hop aboard an underground metro, landing in the Washington DC area, and visit the Museum of Natural History first, to see dinosaur bones...]

[description - My first attempt at making a music video. Shot near Transmountain, in El Paso...]

[description - After Este and I found out we would be ending up in Corpus Christi for her residency, we needed to go there and look for a new place to live. We tour around Corpus searching for an apartment and enjoy the beauty...]

 

[description - a brief tour of our apartment right after we moved in but before it was actually fully furnished. Cool ending credits - as in the Breathless video - showing our loved ones, friends, and more places that we traveled to...]

[description - Smarty-pants Este video taped me one night after complaining that I snore too much. I return the favor...]

[description - A tour of New Orleans...]

[description - A drive through Canal Street and into the French Quarter in New Orleans...]

[description - Kevin in the garage of the Summit Belcourt, when I lived in Dallas, takes the Vulcan Drifter for a quick spin...]

[description - Cruising Highland Park in Dallas on the baby blue Vulcan Drifter...]

[description - I miss my two daughters who live in Baltimore. I constantly drove from Dallas to Baltimore just to see and spend time with them. I came up with this tribute music video, using the song "I Miss You" by Incubus. Unfortunately, the quality of the video stream sucks. You cannot see all the intricate colors of video from on the road that Kevin and I shot while driving back to Texas. The original video moves very quickly, but is not captured in this stream's rendition at all...]

[description - Ed plays hooky from work - blaming it all on the birthday celebration dinner we shared the night before (can you say oysters and a hangover?). In his guilt, he decides to make Este and I breakfast, but only after he forces us to watch his stupid dogs do stupid tricks...] 

[description - After Este graduated from Medical school, we decided to take a ride from Lubbock, Texas, to Roswell, New Mexico, just to see what all that alien hype was about. Needless to say, we got caught in the tail end of a twister or something...]

[description - Este and I take a ten  mile tour around White Rock Lake on our mountain bikes for Thanksgiving...]

[description - Before we were married, I'd go to visit with Este in El Paso. In this short clip, she talks about her fifteen-year-old dog, Moxy...]

[description - We check out of "Club Maggot" in Deale Island, and head back home...]

[description - A ride across the Bay Bridge while enjoying a Coke (don't ask)...]

[description - At the Maggot house on a cold January morning, we feed the ducks and the swans from off Ed's pier...]

[description - A three and a half minute video that Kevin and I shot on one of our many road trips. We leave Baltimore and drive straight to Dallas in less than twenty-one hours. (Yes, we've done this a lot.) The states we drive through include Maryland - Virginia - Tennessee - Arkansas - Texas...]

[description - We do the whole Texas thang... starting with a video of the Texas Bikini Team, and a glimpse of San Antonio from the hotel window...]

[description - Austin and the Driscoll Hotel, 6th Street and more....]

[description - Houston and the Rice area, and off to Corpus...]

[description - A scenic view around Corpus Christi, including downtown, Ocean Drive, and Aransas Pass...]

[description - Kevin, Este, and I head from El Paso to New Mexico in search of the White Sands missile range, famous for nuclear testing...]

[description - Inside the missile range museum and souvenir store...]

[description - The beautiful National White Sands Park. After a picnic, we slide down the mountainous sides of the fine white sands, make sand angels, and watch the sun set in the desert...]

[description - Kevin freaks out when he thinks he sees some kind of wild animal in the night....]

[description - Me, Este and Kevin, cross over the border and the Rio Grande - into Juarez, Mexico, for Tecates and tacos, as we enjoy the sounds of Mariachi players in a cafe...]

[description - Este enjoys a warm, quiet moment by the fireplace as I tour the empty apartment in Dallas, before moving to El Paso. Kevin is already waiting in El Paso to meet us, with his new friend, Mr. Sock...]

  • Ride up the mountain

[description - After an exhausting day of packing in El Paso, readying ourselves for the move to Corpus Christi, we take a much needed ride on Blue to clear our heads, cruising up the side of a mountain for one last view of El Paso and the City of Juarez in the distance. We finish off the ride at a Sonic for burgers...]

[description - promo of bike. Music by Snake River Conspiracy...]

Cozumel collection

[description - After landing in Cozumel, Mexico, the night before, Este and I wake up early to get a head start and to explore the island. We take a drive in a rented dune buggy to Punta Sur, the southern most point of Cozumel...]

[description - We wanted a little more privacy, so we drove around the coast in search of the perfect beach, just to hang out and enjoy life. Upon finding a great spot, we learn quickly why no one else is there - its covered in baby jellyfish! Back to the dune buggy, and we decide to search for ancient Mayan ruins instead, ending up in a little town called Parque Marino...]

[description - Tulum (pronounced, to-loom) is one of the most famous and most visited ruins in the entire world. Nothing but good times..!]

[description - We witness two iguanas fighting for a hill after our tour of Tulum...]

[description - Near the end of our nine days in paradise, it rains, and we're bored. But we wait for the sun  to come out, and after it does - we hop on our little scooter and head down the main street and into town. Later, I find plenty of open space where Este learns how to ride the little Yamaha scooter...]

[description - A tour of the ruins on horseback...]

[description - One of the many beautiful sunsets we experienced while vacationing in Mexico...]

 

more to come...

 

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