Iron Heart Coaster - World Tour 2010-2012
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Great stuff, Jestre. The cemetery is amazing. I may have to start checking out some local ones to see if I can find half as much cool stuff as you did. I especially love the tree headstone. That's just sweet.
You've set the bar pretty high for the rest of us on the tour. I'm gonna have to step up my game.
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Sweet. It is now the haunted coaster
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In my possession, pics taken, posting soon.
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Apologies. Here's my meger attempt at a Thanks giving update, without any pictures of the turkey or food, but really Jester's a hard act to follow. Was busy chowing, but managed to get a few anyway
Many thanks to Jester, once again for awesome updates and Pennsyvanian meibutsu/souvenirs and Giles for the coaster tote. 
Heading to the coast (Salinas, CA) this weekend and will bring them along.
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T_W_E: I see a Hacker Pschorr Beer Mug. Where did you get that?
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Giles done
Hectic done
Simon done
Seul done
Havingmysay done
Jestre done
that_was_easy doing
Chris
malibuboy
Gilbertt
simon626
Katsushin
Beatle
Shoque
charly
Denim Sailor
Nameness
LandoCal126Chris (ex Houstonchris) is up next, I guess TWE should be getting in touch around now.
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Winging their way to Chris as we speak.
I watched Close Encounters of the 4th Kind four times per day for the duration of the holiday season, which I hope accounts for my lack updates. I could think of other excuses but there all about as plausible as the above.
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And they arrived in today's mail.
I'll try to take some pictures and get them posted soon. I'm visiting my family in North Carolina and have sporadic access to the internet. Things won't get back to normal until 2011. Nonetheless, I'll try to make regular posts.
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Glad to hear it Chris. I was hoping they'd get there before the new year. Enjoy!
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OK, so the holidays are over and things are getting back to normal around here, which means that it's high time I posted an update for the coaster tour. For Christmas, we went to visit my family in North Carolina, which was fun. However, traveling with a relentlessly energetic, compulsively destructive, brain meltingly loud two year old is not. Nor is being a pack mule for the short ton of luggage that accompanies the three feet of terror. But I digress…
Visiting the family coincided with Charlotte's first white Christmas in my lifetime- a couple of inches fell in the city, which was just enough to look pretty without bringing the everything to a grinding standstill.
Of course, the WT coasters made an appearance under Mom & Dad's Christmas tree; every Christmas needs a little Iron Heart, right?
And no trip home is complete without sampling what is quite possibly North Carolina's finest contribution to cuisine:
This brings a new meaning to the phrase "tasty denim".
If you've only had Krispy Kreme doughnuts in the pre packaged boxes from the grocery or convenience store, or even worse, not tasted them at all, then I am truly sorry for you. Until you've eaten an original glazed doughnut fresh off the line while the "Hot Doughnuts Now" neon sign is glowing in the window, you have yet to experience true bliss.
On New Year's Eve, we made the 3 hour flight back to Houston and my wife and I spent a couple of days unpacking, doing laundry and cleaning house. My son spent a couple of days trying to spread the billion new toys that grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins insisted on giving him through as much of the house as possible. Fun.
Today I felt like having a burger, so naturally, I went to Texas's locally grown chain (I provided the drink, in case you were wondering. No burger chain is that awesome).
Turns out, IH coasters are good for more than just beverages. They also work great at holding bacon cheeseburgers.
I made sure no bacon was visible just for Seul.:)
They also functioned well as a candy dish for my dessert.
Anyway, that's what's been happening for the last few days. Pretty prosaic, but I hope you were at least mildly entertained. I'll try to find some more interesting stuff for you for the rest of my leg of the tour.
