Thursday, July 26, 2007

Upstate New York


I made it to NY State, after a seven hour ride from New Hampshire, thru Vermont (but south this time) in beautiful weather. Across three hundred-odd kms, nobody pulled out in front of me, nobody did anything to freak me out, I didn't do anything to freak anyone ELSE out, and I only got lost for about an hour finding Candy's house. Great stuff... she lives in a very charming cottage in the countryside not far from Saratoga Springs. And she has three dogs. Hooray! She also, it is worth noting here for anyone who thinks a shoe obsession is outside of the regular, has not one, not two, but TEN pairs of cowboy boots! The woman is as crazy as I am, in fact she's worse. I only have four pairs of cowboy boots. Hmmm.. something (the voice tht goes with The Hand?) is telling me that maybe I should work on that... Especially since her feet are far too big for it to be worth me trying to make off with any of hers.

3 comments:

Mac_Muz said...

Boot's eh? Well when you get to Tenasii, ya need to go to Pigon Forge in the Great Smokies. In the town of Pigon Forge is a store called Stages West. There are other boot stores, one just across the road where I got the boots I ride in mainly, but Stages West has the 18" mule ear boots and I suspect some other womens boots to more or less match.

The name of both my boots is Tony Lama. I got the tan ones across the street and when I discovered the Mule Ears boots I was pissed as I would have bought both the black which I did and the brown.

One o' these days I gotta get down there and get the brown ones too!..

Gwyn Johnson said...

Welp, I'm posting so you don't interpret my "absence" as being due to lack of interest.

I just can't find or make up the words to say just yet. You're beyond words in wonderfulness, which I fully expect will stun and sustain me (at the same time) for the rest of my life.

The duality of it is humbling and mega-energizing; and very agreeable. I'll be savoring it like cream tea or rain forest nut coffee, thinking of you, sistah...;)

In heart and thoughts always,
Gwyn

Anonymous said...

Max. The word that comes to mind is GUSTO! You sure pack a lot in a small package! You were only here a few hours, but I belive the impact will be everlasting. My heart is just a little bit fuller now. I'm glad we were able to escort you to the gateway to your west. Hopefully, you take some of us with you as well.

We hit some tremendous rain on the way back to Galway - those big pinging drops. Hope you were able to scoot away and make it to Niagara dry.