Category: Travel News

  • User Block

    Too true! Amazing in a sad way how we in the USA missed the boat on this issue. Saying you are against this is a good way of finding out how fast I can delete your comments, put you on user block, and never talk to your woman-abusing face again. This happened to me earlier today on Facebook.

    Universal healthcare pic 1

  • New Low Price

    FH7PUBLISHING weekly books has the book “Fire and Shadow an Art Collection to Learn Watercolor” on sale this week. For the new low price of $41.33 you too can learn the basics of watercolor book illustrations. See more at http://www.FH7publishing.com

  • Pokemon Friends I Need Them…

    Let’s be friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 9425 8461 1615! I am on a quest that needs new friends.

  • Interview with Edward Santiago And Austin Halloween 2019

     

     

     

     

    Movie script writer, book writer, and guitarist Edward Santiago granted me an interview on my last trip to Austin, TX for Halloween of 2019. I am the girl on his right in the photo below. We used to work together at Blizzard Entertainment in Austin doing game master help desk work for World of Warcraft. (I did this in the summer as temp work when I was not teaching.) He says it was hard work earning a number of degrees in writing for film, but worth it to teach students about writing in Austin, TX. He says he enjoys writing dramatic work, but fiction has captured his heart for entertainment writing. He says he has a large collection of fiction books, fiction book art prints, video game posters, and video games which my photos of his apartment verify. He says practices guitar regularly, but script writing is his main creative outlet.

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    Below is a photo of Eddie and me on a car trip in Austin in October:

    Edward Santiago and Andrea Downtown Austin October 2018 pic 1

     

    Or check out the Halloween trip of 2018

     

     

     

     

  • Last Day

    No visit to New Orleans at Halloween is complete without a quick graveyard tour. The graves are amazing because the swamp makes it hard to put coffins underground, and so bodies are placed in above ground tombs covered in famous statues. This year I went to Lafayette No. 1 by Commanders Palace restaurant for my end of visit tour. For more art prints for sale see my page at the following: https://www.deviantart.com/fh7publishing

  • Interview with Darren Quintinson 2018

    Darren D. July 12 2018

    I ran into many old friends on my last trip to Austin, TX in 2018. One I had missed from the early 2000s was Darren Quintionson.

    Darren is a music fan and promoter of the music venue The Elysium in Austin, TX. He says that he has traveled the world seeing shows since the early 2000s, including the Middle East and Europe. His favorite types of music include retro 80s, Metal, Black Metal, Synthpop, and electronic. He loves Austin, TX yet was originally from the San Antonio, TX area. He has written poetry for years, given many live poetry readings, and even regularly posted his poems to Livejournal in the early 2000s. His taste in music is greatly influenced by a love of fiction and sci-fi books and movies like HR Giger’s Aliens. He collects books, and is still a very active reader to this day.

    @darrenquintinson on Instagram

     

  • Return

    My bank account got hacked, and I had to leave early this trip to solve the account issues. However I had an amazing time! It was completely everything I wanted the journey to be! Better dating, great photos, and AMAZING food from HEAVEN. I realized that something my life is badly missing is MORE trips to New Orleans! It helps me feel less depressed and trapped in Virginia to know that I can LEAVE it some days. Since I have been working my last couple of jobs for over a year I have been able to improve my car access so I am going to carpool to the area more often in the next few years. A famous Armstrong song is titled “Do you know what it means to Miss New Orleans” and I fully understand the song now. Nothing and no-other-thing is a New Orleans Halloween, and I am sorry I have skipped it for a while. For more art prints for sale see my page at the following: https://www.deviantart.com/fh7publishing

  • Quarter

    French Quarter Halloween 2019

  • Daily News

    In this photo I am getting the daily Newspaper New Orleans style. It has been a while since I purchased the New Orleans newspaper. This paper was next to the Trolley Stop restaurant which is newly renovated. In fact it was on a TV show with Gordon Ramsey that is rather infamous. My friend @zorak303 showed me the video on his TV at his place. This was sad because it used to be a very thrifty place for students to eat, but is now far more pricey.  For more art prints for sale see my page at the following: https://www.deviantart.com/fh7publishing

     

  • New Places

    The dance night was great at this New Orleans gem. I ran into many old friends on Halloween night because I used to live for years in this area going to Loyola University. I walked back in fourth in this area to many music venues despite the cold rain. In addition to seeing old friends I met some new ones. It was a good visit, and I must confess I liked Louisiana better compared to Virginia. More photo art prints are for sale here: https://www.deviantart.com/fh7publishing