Sunday, April 16, 2006

the vandals took the handles

i went on a trip this weekend. on friday ryan barnhart and i got in my car with no real plan and drove west and then north. we called his brother on the way and solicited a place to crash in ithaca (did you know ithaca is gorges?). we decided to stop in harmony, pennsylvania for some sight-seeing. on the way we found a 'porch sale' and i bough a red hot chili peppers cd. then we saw the banks of the susquehanna. we also saw a graveyard where emma hale's parents are buried.

anyway, i could go on and give a travel-log; however, this is a web-log, not a travel-log. so i will tell you some of the best parts, not a minute by minute recounting. we drove by a large camp site kind of place on the way to ithaca. all kinds of rv's were parked everywhere. we stopped to check out what was going on. motocross was the name of the game. all day racing on saturday. so the next day we drove to palmyra and saw all the stuff. it was good. there was a lot of stuff and a lot of new stuff that wasn't there the last time i visited. like a new temple. and the smith home (the second on the farm) is restored and 85% original. that is where joseph hid the plates and where he found out martin harris lost the 116 pages. so it was good to see all those places. and the sister missionaries were hot.

so, after palmyra we drove back down to the motocross. there was an entire parking lot full rvs and families and little kids on motorcylces. i could only think of two words to describe the whole thing. one of them is trash and one of them is white. but then i got sucked in by the entire event. i ain't never seen motocross before. so i took a lot of pictures. i include them below. hope ya'll is good.





38 comments:

Anonymous said...

stephen,

i actually liked that entry (first one i think). i would have paid good money to have accompanied you guys on your journey.

Stephen said...

it would have cost you a lot to convince me to allow you to come along.

petey said...

i can jump that high with my haro F2

Natalie said...

Motocross is close to my heart. The sounds of a two stroke bike just melt me. No really your lucky to have gone to that. I would have paid good money to have gone too.

Stephen said...

natalie: does your = you're? and i think the part that skinny would have paid good money for is the palmyra part, not the motocross part.

p.t. we know what you can do on your haro f2.

paul said...

the sound of 'bike' melts my heart...and 'amy'.

Stephen said...

the sound of bike melts amy? she likes biking that much too?

paul said...

does it strike anyone else as silly and absurd that in this digital age that jack and christopher are running around with one copy of this recording? losing credibility quickly...but still very fun to watch.

petey said...

paul.
agreed. they really need to have made another copy. but jack did kill 6 people tonight.

paul said...

yes, he is quite a shot with whatever weapon he picks up. tonight it was hangun from 50 yards...impressive.

paul said...

stevie: did i mention that the pictures are great. i like the foregrounds and backgrounds. maybe you can some like that in moab...

Stephen said...

i think you are all underestimating jack right now. of course he has a copy somewhere. why would he not have done that? in fact, i doubt it very much that henderson even has the recording. i wouldn't have put it past secretary heller to have the recording on his person somewhere. this way he at least knows the president is part of the whole thing.

paul: did you watch scenes for next week?

paul said...

yes, i've come to like scenes for next week because they themselves are deceptive. i too think that jack has a copy of the recording somewhere (he wouldn't have stuck with audrey for so long with the good of the country going down in flames as henderson gets away) if there's no copy then i question my desire to watch the next three seasons of 24 that jack just signed up to do...

Anonymous said...

My children will be surprised to hear that after we sent Hannah and Lafe to the high school play daddy actually watched 24 with me. It was quite fun.
Jonny those shorts are great I got them for a real bargain....so much for so little. Ma

petey said...

ps. no way aaron is dead.

Stephen said...

i wonder if dd has died. i think she has.

Anonymous said...

do you miss me stephen?

if you are jack, then i'm chloe. and chloe's not going anywhere anytime soon...

Anonymous said...

Hey - I like your pics but how did you get the background blurry and the bikes in focuss. Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Stephen said...

dd: if i'm jack and you are chloe, can you explain to me why i did not send you a digital copy of the presidents conversation?

nick: i'm a photographic wizard.

Stephen said...

ma: i'm proud you have pulled dad into the realm of 24.

Anonymous said...

jack: are you sure you didn't send me a digital copy of the president's conversation? all i can say is if you did, i'd know what to do with it...

Stephen said...

chloe: will you marry me?

Anonymous said...

sorry stephen i can't. i'm in love with kim. sorry to give away the surprise for season 7.

Anonymous said...

i think president logan is posing as me on the blog. who else would come up with the ridiculous and far-fetched idea that i could possibly be attracted to that trashy, over-bleached, whiny airhead?

jack: of course i will marry you. no ring required.

Anonymous said...

i'm not dead yet.

Anonymous said...

i did not...

Anonymous said...

chloe: go ahead and marry jack if you will. just know that he will not hestitate to torture you if you endanger national security.

he'll even torture your old husbands and boyfriends if your not careful. i just can't handle it when he tortures my old husbands.

(i wonder if he'll torture walt...poor walt)

oh, and he likes to yell. may favorite is when he says, "where's the bomb."

i've said to much...

Anonymous said...

i would require a ring

Anonymous said...

i am not dead. bullets do not hurt my neck. whoever thinks lynn mcgill is not dead is stupid.

Stephen said...

hey audrey. are you illiterate? if you're going to comment on this web log please bring your a game. do not use 'to' when you mean 'too.' do not mess with me audrey.

Anonymous said...

will the real david palmer please stand up?

i would know if i'm dead.

i'm not stupid.

Stephen said...

jonny: call me for both. i will not give them out over the internet device.

Anonymous said...

i'm getting married on Wednesday...

Anonymous said...

i don't care about no three year contract. jack's dead tonight!

Stephen said...

is this really you libby? you don't have to be coy about it.

pres. logan: i hope you're right. jack goes down tonight and 24 goes to a new level of transcendent paradise.

paul said...

bumbling electronic fools.

Stephen said...

yes true. but you can hardly call chloe a bumbling electronic fool

Lollygagger said...

I used to watch motocross all the time on TV when I was a sophomore in college.