NorthPort, Long Island

So the past few days, I have just been holed up in a basement in Long Island... booking booking, madly booking. As of right now, I have a great line-up of photographers from Houston to Santa Fe ... The best news is - that I booked a photographer in Albuquerque who is going to take me flying in his little four man plane. How cool is that? A plane ride across the New Mexico desert! Whoo hoo! Alas, amist all this positive - there must be some negative..... Because, let me tell you, Colorado isn't booking at all. I mean, nothing. Like, at all. Therefore I will be going an entire week, maybe two without pay. I haven't mentioned it yet, but my best friend, Matthew will be accompanying me on the rest of the trip crosscountry. He's going to be flying into Houston with me on the 24th - I planned out a lot of my schedule on half work/half sightseeing. We're hitting up Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, Garden of the Gods, Arches National Park, Salt Lake (gotta float in the lake!), Bryce Canyon, Zion, Hoover Dam, Vegas, Grand Canyon, and a dozen other things...... lots of funny tourist attractions. Like the largest ball of twine. When I haven't been working on emails, I've been reading. In the past week, I've finished three books: Jitterbug Perfume, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, and Way Off the Road. Way Off the Road was written very poorly and full of seedy humor. But it had some great stories about traveling across the US..... examples:

• There is a place in Alabama where all lost luggage goes (Lost Mail, lost suitcases, lost packages). The lost luggage is bought, opened up, and stocked on shelves! You can go shopping in this giant warehouse of stuff.
• There is also a festival held just above Denver Colorado - that celebrates a frozen dead guy on ice. You can buy t-shirts, hats, and jump into a hole in the ice to celebrate the day!