42 PENNIES: Attention Video Blog Fans!

What's All This About, Then?
(aka Your Many Questions Indelicately Answered)

(hint #1: scroll down and this won't be as hard to read. You're welcome.)

We go on trips. Road trips. Other trips. But mostly road trips. Sometimes (ideally) long ones. Sometimes not.

Yes, this is the same blog as the one about the Oregon Trail. Yes, it used to have a stagecoach and a dusty feel to it, which went along with the Oregon Trail very nicely. Yes, that was a great trip. That was three years ago. (the blog is still here if you want to read it...it starts here)

So...as we embark on the latest chapter of our roamin' ways, we want to invite you to come along. First, we might get lonely. I mean, we don't really get lonely much, but it's possible. Second, you might miss us. Third, you just might be nosy. And fourth, we are notoriously and and historically bad at sending postcards, circulating photos, keeping up with a scrapbook; as a matter of fact, with documenting our trip in most every way. We figured this might be the 21st century solution. It worked for the last trip, which was (as you know) three years ago (sniff). So we're keeping it going.

We hope you'll pop in, read about where we are, what we're doing, see photos of our adventures, and experience our gypsy hardships (like no room service) vicariously! Most importantly, we hope you'll add your comments and greetings, which we will get when we get to one of our stopping points. Souvenir requests will receive due consideration (Hint #1: Success is highly correlated with tackiness).

For those so inclined (you know who you are), we will also list links to related sites so that you can learn with us as we learn on the road, and maybe visit some of the same sights in the future!

Happy Trails to us all!

Love, Phoebe and Robin

Monday, August 6, 2007

Attention Video Blog Fans!

I managed to get a few moments (okay, more than a few) to put together the "Mud" video that I had intended all along. So...even if you've already read the post about the famed mud wallowing, check it out again. The title of the post, so you can skip right to it, is "Baker City, Oregon". It's just a couple posts down. Now, in place of the photos of Phoebe in the mud, is a video (with apologies for the shaking..the cinematographer was standing in the mud too!) complete with the perfect song, which coincidentally, happened to be one of my dad's very favorite songs of all time--he would play it, lean back, and smile and smile. Now you can join him. Enjoy!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hi Robin and Phoebe, Love the Pendleton. Wonderful mud video. Did you buy Pendleton? How could you resist? I'm also revising (some of) my preconceived notions about folks in sleepy little towns -- the Rorschach! Beautiful photos, by the way-; August 7, 2007 at 2:23 AM
42pennies said...: Thanks again for all your generous comments, Jill. It's so great to get up in the morning out here on the road and hear from you and others.

We didn't buy much at Pendleton (other than scraps), though the seconds were very tempting. It was hard to resist, but the price tags helped. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!

Glad you liked the video!; August 7, 2007 at 9:27 AM
Anonymous said...: Wonderful video. The mud song - Noel Coward?
It's so interesting to see the connections to your father on this journey.
Looks like a great old theatre. It's just waiting for its first LGBT film fest. I'll project for you.
Oh, and the Bi market. Too funny.; August 7, 2007 at 11:29 AM
PeaceMaker said...: This Phoebe Mud-Stomping with the music brought a smile to my face, too, and a little tear to my eye. It's great!; August 8, 2007 at 8:52 AM
42pennies said...: Glad you liked it, Judy! Good to hear from you on here.

And Ellen....it's Flanders and Swann, not Noel Coward (good guess, though!)
You should hear their Cannibal Song, too. Good stuff. I knew I could count on you to be the projectionist. It's good to have friends in high places!!; August 8, 2007 at 10:27 AM
Eastbound Mama said...: OK--I know I posted this yesterday, but it made its way into the ether somewhere. Either that, or I've totally lost my brain (the latter is much more likely than the former, unfortunately).

I love the film--the shaking makes it so real. I got the feeling that I was actually slogging away. And the song--oh my gosh!! Who needs Ira Glass to find the most fitting music? We all have our Robin! I say we are lucky critters--all of us!

The Rorchach was fantastic! What did you think when you took the picture??? I loved the theater--your picture made me want to run out and buy it. To do what with? Who cares? It's fabulous!
And the bi-mart? Wow--Oregon is indeed a progressive place. But wait--it's still discriminating against gay people. Oh. And straight people. Oy. What's a girl to do?; August 8, 2007 at 11:14 AM