An Epic Meetup

October 12, 2009

Last week was pretty good. Naah, epic actually. One of my great friends Pasquale D’Silva from Australia (now in Vancouver) finally hopped on a plane and came to visit for a week in Cody, WY.

We got to marvel at tumbleweeds (apparently mystical to Aussies), take a giant roadtrip through Yellowstone and into Jackson,wrestle with bears, walk through heaps of snow, fine-tune my Aussie accent, delve into a pitch-black cave, laugh at cowboy hats, bake little creatures in the oven1, pillage McDonald’s like Vikings, geek out, and all sorts of other awesome.

Spelunking

Day 3: Pasquale about to follow Brandon into a shimmy over a decent-sized drop in Spirit Mountain cave. Unfortunately we weren’t able to find “The Descent” creatures down there…

Also, I finally got to witness how the illustrating fiend can draw any creature (real or imaginative) in thirty seconds flat… even on the back of the car.

Dirty bear...

At Old Faithful: A remedy for the hiding bears…

The only disappointment of the trip was not getting to see a real bear—the January-like wintery conditions probably didn’t help. Anyways, it’s sure going to be hard to say “snow” without pronouncing it as “snaaaar” now…

Twas a totally awesome time! Now to make it up to Vancouver sometime!

Video: Some random highlights... Especially random at 00:45!

  1. @PETA: clay creatures []

The Commentary

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    Dude, this was the most fun I’d had in a long, long, long time. And I have lots of fun with Lis – so that’s really sayin’ something.

    I loved that it snowed so hard when I got there for no reason, and you scoring gunpowder from your uncle.

    Next time we are going to have to do some ‘gardening’.


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    Looks like a good time. I gotsta remember to record video on future adventures. It’s so worth it.