 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
| Stopped at Panda Garden on Grace St. for some excellent mock-meat Chinese food. Here the cook uses big fire and works his magic to prepare our dishes. | My General Tso's Mock Chicken. Not as good as in previous visits, a 6 out of 10. Still tasty though. | Vanessa's Panda Special LoMein, also not as good or as smoky as I remembered it. 6/10. | Vanessa attempts to forget the vileness of the bathroom and give Panda Garden a chance. |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
| City Hardware, Richmond, VA. | 1 Hour Cleaners sign, Richmond, VA. | Lighthouse (restaurant), abandoned. Richmond, VA. | U-Save abandoned gas station, Highway 5 out of Richmond, VA. |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
| Haupt's Country Store sign, Highway 5. | Abandoned Gas Station, Highway 5. | Rear of abandoned gas station, Hwy 5. | Again, rear of gas station. Deserted trailer. |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
| Mr. Able LP Gas sign, abandoned gas station, Hwy 5. | Driving back on highway 64. It's all divided and clean like this, no billboards, but boring, and you have to watch for cops in the median. | Fishing Pier, (pier now gone apparently) Ocean View, Norfolk. | Weird hotel on stilts, Granby St., Norfolk, VA. |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
| Tal made Vanessa and I a dee-licious dinner of crispy orange-ginger chicken with spinach and rice. To die for! | JR Gault tries his hand at Upper Deck at the Ghent Inn, my favorite nightspot in Norfolk. | More of the same, from another angle. The certificates on the wall are all "Certificates of Marital Hard Knocks," listing (often numerous) divorces. | Matt Partridge shootin' some Upper Deck as the crowd goes wild. |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
| JR, Vanessa, Cholly and Matt share a cozy formica booth near a porthole window at the Ghent Inn. | And another. | Clandestine shot of the Ghent Inn, longer exposure. Proprietor Walter can be seen at the end of the bar, often doing small-engine repair. | A similar shot of the bar area. |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
| Matt makes his selections on the jukebox, surely one of the finest in the area. Play "Whispering Pines," "Sweet Virginia," "Put a Spell on You" and something by George Jones for me. | Vanessa enjoys Jean's conversation. | JR treats us all to some frustrated sighs and a few rolls of the eyes. | Jean sets up his shot and fires it in like a professional. |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
| Longer-exposure shot out the window toward Cruzers and the Lamberts Point Cargo Terminal. | JR throws some darts, Ghent Inn. | Wall near the dartboard, has it ever seen the light of day? | Matt and JR take turns throwing darts in my direction; sorry for the blurry shot. |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Mon, May 3, 2004 |
 Tue, May 4, 2004 |
 Tue, May 4, 2004 |
| Jean has a special technique where he throws the darts from the wrong end, but it works well. | Lambert's Point Cargo Terminal. The smell here can be nauseating if the wind is right. I used to live close enough to know, believe me. | Sadly it's "goodbye" to Norfolk. Flying out, looking east towards the ocean some 8-10 miles distant. | Ocean View and part of Willoughby Spit from the place. |
 Tue, May 4, 2004 |
 Tue, May 4, 2004 |
 Tue, May 4, 2004 |
 Tue, May 4, 2004 |
| More of Willoughby Spit area. | This is the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, starting at Willoughby and ending in Hampton. | Above the Clouds. | Southside Chicago, near University of Chicago I think, aerial shot looking north. |
 Tue, May 4, 2004 |
 Tue, May 4, 2004 |
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| My neighborhood from the plane, you can see where the northern end of LSD terminates, and theThorndale beach just to the north. | From Lake Michigan to about Western Avenue, and about Peterson to Foster. My house and Scooterworks are in there; the "park" is Rosehill cemetery. |