“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
We visited Santa Cruz yesterday.
The seals were lazing around the pier and we even saw a cute sea otter! Here’s me taking a snap of the boardwalk:
The amusement park is great although we didn’t do any rides.
Instead we focused on the arcade…
The machine that Bernard won that hamster on was paying out! In the time we were watching three people got prizes.
I also finally found some nice postcards – the first yet for this trip. Check your mailboxes 🙂
I’m having a good time on this lazy vacation! We abandoned the idea of a road trip and are freewheeling it day-by-day.
There’s been lots of shopping:
A bit of gaming:
Some fine dining:
Lots of driving:
And the evenings always end with this:
We’ve now opened and played full drafts of two sets. Tomorrow we’ll start making decks from Bernard’s now-sizable collection and move on to playing them 🙂
Bernard has a large collection of postcards, most sent by me! They date all the back to within the first month of me arriving in the USA, and span a mind-boggling array of trips across many years.
And on many – especially in the last five years – I drew or painted things. This post is a humble showcase of my prodigious skills at postcard art.
For starters, how about some political figures. Can you guess who is shown in the top left?
That’s also Gandhi in the bottom left, not Batista!
And here are some entertainers:
Florian Schneider, Gary Numan, Yeri, Gene Simmons. All astonishing likenesses 🙂
Not impressed? How about Mr T:
Or Tegan Jovanka:
Or even Bowie and Freddy:
Lastly some characters:
As it turns out art has been dominated by two topics: Gudetama and Grimace, and I could have filled a post with pictures of them alone. Instead though, just one of the latter:
Breathtaking!
Like what you see? Leave a request in the comment within the next few days and you may get your very own from San Jose!