day dreaming trips...

Always thought it would be fun to take a trip like this, and was thinking maybe this spring id have time. Sarah is pretty busy so i was thinking maybe my brother Jon could make the trip. So here is my idea is mostly photo form :)



green is trains, red is planes, cars and ferries not shown :)

So i start off driving to omaha and hopping on a train...



its right down town, easy.



then i pick up Jon in ft morgan, its only an hour from were he lives so maybe he could just get dropped off.












and we take that the rest of the way to denver, a little mroe deluxe station id say haha. we dont stay in denver for realy any longer then it takes to make out way to the airport



its not realy as attractive as the photos make it seem haha.
we get on a plane and fly to......



portland!



donuts!



waterfalls!





the coast!





then another train to...



seattle!



food and all kinds of stuff



ok old photo, but it still looks sorta the same ;)



take a ferry to bainbridge!



for good pizza on the island





stay at the moore like always



fly back to denver and train home :)

well shoot.

got all ready for my big appointment for the day and got stood up :(



oh well, guess ill take the time and make a post of portland stuff im excited to show/do with sarah in march :)

in no particular order:

trains :) yeah i know, public transportation sooo exciting right? well i like trains so yes. so exciting!




the farmers market, ive heard about it and i love them in general. but ive yet to visit portlands.



the victory bar, full of super tastey quasi fancy food



voodoo donuts and all the other cool stuff down town



the speak easy, kinda seedy in a good way and tastey turkey sandwiches



the sling shot lounge, not all that exciting but i hear the burgers are good and its preety cool to see all the tattoo related photos up on the wall at such a large scale



powell books, im going to spend sooo much cash.... if i can save it up. haha also no photo but def hitting up counter media as well



i will uphold this idea



ground kontrol! wear i will try my luck at being better at awesome vintage video games.



food trucks! i may spend even more money there haha



probably wont ride it or stop to see it, but this gondala type thing goes from the parking ramp to the hospital. guess they ran out of parking room and thought this was a good way to go.



random suuuuuuuper wide portland pix, sorry for that







i honestly have no idea what this is, but i see it in photos all the time and it seems like something i need to have seen at least once?



and the giant rose test gardens, this ones a maybe. ive never been there let alone in march. but im betting there wont be anything bloming there. this is always why ive left out the japanese and chineses gardens that i have also never seen the inside of.



another never been, the coast!



we probably wont do a bunch of those, but it'd be cool if we did. a bunch of them are pretty close to each other so i guess we'll see what our $ situation and my work schedule while im there looks like. either way it should be loads of fun!

I look in the stars and I remember ...

world wide. thought id make a post that was just a back log of photos. haven't done that for a while, and I've got some time to kill so here goes :)

I've been talking about going to Japan on a trip for quite some time. After talking about it with some friends in Portland that also would like to go I think ive got a lose plan. Or an idea anyways...



first i head to Omaha.



home of DUP @ liquid courage tattoo, were my friend Jason is getting tattooed later this afternoon btw



Jeremy also works at liquid courage. i think i may need a tattoo from him down the road, his stuffs looking pretty good these days.



any how, a quick jump to Portland is next!

Portland is home to my friends Joe and Dom, formerly of Living art tattoo. They are now, or soon to be, under the name "Dead Gods tattoo".



Joe is coming along on the trip, the more the better!



Dom may as well? im not really sure. but this good luck cat he did is awesome right?



Random note: Joe and Dom are tattooing my entire back together stretching from my neck that Joe put 16 ish hours into so far, to my ribs/stomach that Dom is tattooing solo, all the way down the top of all the work Sean herman did on my lower leg. getting filled up :)



the coast in Portland, something i've oddly enough never seen in person. I will be in Portland fora few days before the next leg in our trip. ill spend most of it tattooing and maybe some getting tattooed. hopefully ill find room to see the coast.



Bea and Bob were in Portland and DID see the ocean!



her photos look great, you should head over to the link ----> over here, that says Beas blog and check them out. good stuff :)



and if your going to fly to japan you may as well stop in hawaii for a minute right?



we'll be there for a day or two? tattooing may just happen there.



then japan! i have no idea what city we will head to... but this is tokyo



if we end up in Yokohama hopefully we could be fortunate enough for a trip here.



yellow blaze tattoo, home of this one guy.



whats his name?



oh yeah, Shige!

any how, play that back in reverse for the second half of the trip and there we have it! omaha to portland, 2-7 days in portland. portland to hawaii, 1 or 2 days in hawaii. hawaii to japan, 4 or 5 days in japan. japan to hawaii, 1 or 2 days there, hawaii to portland, 3 or so days there, portland to omaha. done!

mostly the route is set that way for 3 reasons. 1, its actually cheaper to fly that way then direct to japan from Omaha and i want to fly alone the least amount possible. 2, a direct flight would last foooreeevvveeerr and i just don't think I'm up to it having time to decompress would be great. And breaking up all the flying with some time in hawaii doesnt sound to shabby. we know people in almost every stop so we can couch crash instead of having to find hotels and what not in a bunch of different locations. and of course 3, why not?