big props to greg down in austin, texas! he got me one of the coolest bday presents ive ever received…he travelled down to my old town along the gulf coast in texas, took 2 rolls of film, had them developed, and then sent them to me in time for my birthday. you rock greg! we had actually discussed this off hand months ago, after i had seen that he took a road trip to hope, texas (from the sandra bullock movie hope floats) for a friend of his. so i mentioned off hand that itd be coo for him to trip down to my lil boonie town in the middle of calhoun county (pronounced cow~hooooon). i passed him info on what i could remember of the two towns i lived in (point comfort and port lavaca)…the addresses i thought were my old houses, some sites that i could remember, and left him to his own devices. and he came thru…even tho i got both my addresses wrong. whups. and even tho i got reminded jus how boonie my town was, i still got all teary-eyed from seeing the lil shack of a house that we called our first home in america.
01, 02 | the half moon reef lighthouse – symbol of port lavaca along the matagorda bay
03 | the old baptist church we used to attend in point comfort
04, 05 | my old elementary school in point comfort…they still have the same hexagonal merry-go-round i used to play on!
06 | the playground near the waterside at the back of point comfort
07 | my first home in america
08, 09 | our second home in port lavaca…the big tree thats been hacked apart in the front lawn? we planted that apple tree right before we moved
10, 11 | the twin dolphins theater…saw e.t. there
12 | the big h.e.b. supermarket…hey, its one of the few non-home, non-school memories i could remember
thanx a shitload greg. very coo.