Another Dream I Intend to Turn Into Reality

[ellenmillion]

I want to do a Con Tour. A whole year, every major convention in the US and Canada, me and Jake in some rusty old van driving from city to city. Jennie I shall chain to my desk at home so that she can mail me anything I run out of and manage all the orders that come in meanwhile. (And feed my cat... you're not allergic to cats, are you, Jennie?)

I want to stop and see everyone that I can, and drag them to touristy places in their own cities that they've never been to, and eat exotic food and marvel at the public toilets that flush. I want to go to concerts while I'm where concerts happen. I want to see a Widespread Panic concert, and a String Cheese Incident, and I want to spend a week in the Smithsonian. I want to drool in art museums. We don't have any art museums here. I want to go to zoos. I love zoos! Fairbanks has no zoo. :(

I want to take Larry Elmore up on his offer to visit his studio. I want to see Lew Hartman again, and persuade him to show me painting tricks. I want to rub elbows with high uppity-ups and stop and paint at every possible opportunity. I want to see the Grand Canyon and Arches Nt'l park. I want to see if Ursula is half as kooky in real life as she is in cyber-space. I want to see everyone's sketchbooks... the pages and pages and pages of things that aren't worth scanning and may never be finished.

I want to see what freeways are like. I want to get stuck in rush hour in Austen. I want to stand in the rain on the beaches of Oregon. I want to see the leaves turn in New England. I want to lie on my back and watch clouds from the top of a skyscraper. I want to wear costumes at conventions. I want to...

I want an awful lot of things. Time to get busy...

Comments

[jaenanda.livejournal.com]

Babe, you need to come to LA. You wanna se freeways? I've got the 101-405 interchange that's literally the worst in the world.

We've got the Getty Center, we've got LACMA, we have concert venues galore and-- we have Disneyland. Well, technically that's in Orage Conty, but it's close. and Six Flags Magic Mountain! Roller coaster Capitol of, like, the World or something.

We've got warm weather. We have miles of sandy beaches.

Best of all-- if you wait a year or so til the business gets underway, you could write of the whole trip as a "business expense" on your income taxes, probably.

I really wish I could get a list of all the Elfwooder's in Ca. Have you taken a look at the worldmap? the West coast is crawling with Elfwooders. Just wish I knew where to find them all... Hopefully after the Anime Expo I'll know a whole bunch and then I'll be able to introduce you.

::sigh:: now I'm dreaming, too.

two questions: you gonna drive that rusty old van down from alaska, or ferry it? "cause I've heard that the drive sucks. Second: you _dont_ have flush toilets?????

[delusiongirl.livejournal.com]

I like cats. :-) I'm not allergic.

Yes, chain me to a desk. As long as my art supplies are within reach, I'm good.