jsam's hott.bob trip (low-quality jpegs)

In August 1995 I went to New Mexico for a party. If you know about the party in question, or at least, about the newsfroup the party was held for, then these photographs will tell you part of my story. If you don't, then you'll just have to wait until I get around to writing about it.

The journey outwards

• The ultimate in colour coordination: United Airlines and the Melbourne sky
• Pacific clouds

In Boston with Eric

• Eric at his computer
• Eric's abacus

In Montreal with Kate and Lockhart

• Lockhart and Kate
• Ben Soo
• St George's, an old church ruined by fire a few years ago, which contains
• some suspicious graffiti.
• Kate's cat, Shahrazad.
• Genevieve.
• Loading the car in Kate's back yard.

Across the United States with Kate, Lockhart and Genevieve

• Dawn, demonstrating the Kludge Control Device.
• The way to the states.
• Travellers with AjD in his office, all grinning madly.
• Objects in the car are closer than they appear.
  
• God on toast!
• Wit in central USA.
• jsam eating breakfast in Spring Mill State Park.
• Lockhart, Genevieve and Kate (invisible) in Spring Mill State Park.
• An off-road produce stall (closed) by the Forks of the Wabash.
• Lockhart sacrificing a melon to Klortho the Magnificent by Lake Pomme de Terre.
• Genevieve accelerating.
• Hooker, Oklahoma, a town that fails to get the joke. Maybe.
• The third campsite: Logan, New Mexico. A beautiful and tranquil place.

HOTT.BOB

Friday, 11 August 1995

• A black windowless helicopter flies overhead, but carasso does not emerge.
• Pete and Hilary.
• Scott Dorsey, who wasn't there, before--
• --and after belling.
• Cindy, who wasn't there with him.
• Glen and Ra in front of some tents.
• The Elder Dan with the Elder Feather Boa.
• Christine Haggarty and Matt Marchese.
• 5150, larger than 5150.
  
• Bill Coderre arrives with anhydrous caffeine;
• Paul Lord arranges to stay awake the entire weekend.
  
• People gather. Most of them are excited.
• If you haven't anything to smirk about, why are you here?
• Tom Boutell and Michele Grant arrive.
• 5150 and Kelly J Cooper.
• Lives are signed away; string is applied copiously. Me too.
  
• The Doomed Crew with Ra.
• The Doomed Crew with lots of other people.
• Hug a pope today!
• Our hosts: John and Diane.

Saturday, 12 August 1995

• My neck, with off-road rash from the bike trip. (alternate image).
• My neck, as it was usually described.
• Matt and Vehicle.

• Eric and j.j, caught napping.
• Mary Szmagaj.
• Bryan O'Sullivan and Caitlin Burke.

• Kaite making a whole table smile.
• Dan and Jade are wed. (Somehow the photo makes Jade look like the wicked witch of the west, but it's the only photo I have that shows the wedding clothes.)

Sunday, 13 August 1995

• 5150 later claimed he was "not unimpressed" by j.j's melons. (The container j.j is holding says "5151" on the side.)
• Ilana at breakfast.
• The motto, thanks to Dawn.
• Kristen!
• Markian Gooley.
• Host H.
• Host C.
• Eileen.

• Frisbee at 7000 feet.
• A dog joins the frisbee game.
• Spectators.
• Genevieve.
• Becca, Tom, Michele.

• The Grim Solberg.
• Squirty, hit by lightning.
• Stevi smiles; clouds gather.
• jkcohen and jade.

• jsam and christine: front
• jsam and christine: back.
  
• Dan and Jade with Book.
• nj with curry.
• Mark-Jason Dominus.
• j.j may be tall, but Corprew is taller.
  
• Some confer; some play "julian in the middle"; some organise the play-reading.
• "Julian in the Middle."
  
• Dusk.
• The campfire.

Monday, 14 August 1995

• Dan Haggarty salutes; the anvil is lowered.
• Solberg (dangerous despite being armed).
• Ferret, jsam and Ra.
• Breakfast.
• Breakfast.
• Paul Lord and Genevieve Williams.
• gnat, stevi and jsam.
• Antipodeans, one in 2 hats, the other in none.
• Ed Galliard and 5150 pose manlily.
  
• 5150 conjures an nj; Eric decants a protective spell.
• nj attacks! --more--
  
• Kate takes a final audience with the pope.
• The site from a distance.

In Fort Fun with Team Fun

• Eric, jsam, j.j and gnat.
• -k.
• gnat, pygmy and j.j at the New West Fest.

In the Bay Area

• The Wabash Cannonball, Wumps.
• Caitlin and Wumps.
• jsam and morrisa.