- San Francisco
- first day, parade of bicycles
- drenching #1: getting drenched riding bikes across the Golden Gate Bridge (it was very fogging - we were basically riding through a cloud)
- crepe from a street cart
- Vancouver
- smelling the air after getting out of the airport: "smells like nature"
- the mountains over the skyline
- Main Street, maple syrup
- waiting outside the Biltmore Cabaret for tickets to Japandroids
- missing out on tickets but having a good night anyway. Yaletown Brewery, the whole street turning into a pedestrian street, the goose lady, having an hour-long nap on the hostel room floor
- Portland
- the good drawing day
- lying on the grass in that park with bare feet
- Chicago
- losing time in the Art Institute (8 hours) and forgetting that we were starving
- almost being asked by a woman in the AIC for directions because I looked like a staff person (I was wearing a black button-up, black shorts, three 'I ○ Lichtenstein' buttons and holding my sktechbook)
- lying in the grass at Millennium Park
- Pop goes the Easel
- drenching #2: Chinatown, getting drenched in the rain, stopping by an Asian supermarket for a cardboard box
- that bee on the Vitamin Water bottle at Union park, Pitchfork day 3
- before Vampire Weekend: "we're a bit cranberry here, I think you need to move"
- Toronto
- poutine, complements from the kitchen
- drawing in St James Park with almost glow-in-the-dark highlighter
- extreme homesickness, being asked by that woman to buy her coffee
- coconut juice from an actual coconut
- Niagara Falls
- Deadmaus5 is from Niagara Falls
- drenching #3: getting wet (not really drenched) on the Maid of the Mist
- drawing the falls from that wall
- drawing the mist, mist studies, "mist is hard", "is it just me or did that mist grow just now?"
- finding a $5 note on the ground in front of the Hersheys shop, "it's a sign!", looking around Hersheys for something that we could buy with $5 (we were adamant about not spending any more than that)
- New York
- Manor Park, lying on the rocks near the pavilion at night
- very hot day, lying on the grass in Central Park, Real Estate
- drenching #4: lower Manhattan, at around 7:30pm, walking from around Freedom Tower to Lupe's kitchen, the skies opened and it thunderstormed. wind and lightening and torrents of rain. completely wet.
aug 9 2012 ∞
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