Everybody goes back to work today except me. I mean, I still have lots of work to do, including school work, syllabi planning, etc but I don't have to go anywhere and finally have a little bit of time off to work on the site and think about the future of epeeps.net

I think that I will be adding a profile section to this site in the next day or two. Maybe even today we'll see how motivated I am after eating.

The hudon River is lame. We are just about back to albany and we crossed of the Hudson River. I expected something big and thunderous, like the niagara, but it doesn't look like that at all.
Sorry about the bad photo of the hudson river from the car window. Thatt's the hudson as viewed at 80 mph, I mean 65 mph of course.

Also, with this entry is another picture from the clam roll restaurant, I will put it with the right journal when we get home tonight.

So we quickly made it off cape cod. I guess getting off the island during off time was a good idea, cause sometimes there is a three hour long traffic jam.



I really wanted one more clam roll. So, as soon as we got over the bridge I stopped. A clam roll, like a lobster roll, consists fried whole clams or lobster chunks on a hotdog roll.



It's really a weird mix of white trash wonderbread style hotdog roll and expensive seafood. A clam roll with whole clams will set you back 10.95 to 17.95 depending where you go.

While we were there (e:terry) took my picture inside the lobster cutout. I am such a tourist today.

Here we are posing at the boatslip ocean pier tea dance. We met some people that remembered us from the beach.

I have to stop taking sky pics with the sidekick, I have no idea which are which. I think one is sherkston (rip off 25 dollar) and one is herrington Cove (7 dollars.)

(e:matthew) has a bunch of these too.

It's july and we found a christmas store in Provincetown. WTF, they even played Christmas music. It made me feel like I was in the twillight zone.

Here we are at the port in Provincetown.



We looked into getting a ferry ticket to visit emily keating in Boston but its 111 dollars each way and we would have no where to put the car for that long.

The top picture is of both (e:matthew) and I both in the process of taking pictures.



The other ones are just various dock pics.



Yesterday, we spent the day at the beach. Everyone is sun burned a bit. We met french kid, here is is with (e:matthew).



He had swam to shore from a boat in the ocean where he was cruising around with his rich patron friend, see below.



He was getting married to a lesbian for citizenship.



Later, we got to eat seafood slightly out of the city. It was much cheaper. (e:matthew) and I ate lobster, scallops, and steamers (long necked clams.) (e:terry) had an oyster po-boy which is a bizillion fried oysters on a sandwich. I have to say all our meals are far too low on vegtables. I keep coming back to the campsite and eating lots of fruit and salad.

Oh, and as fate would have it, we are staying at a Christian Family camp. The more we traveled around it, the more bible quotes we found hanging up.

Some father came over to us (e:matthew) and (e:terry) and said, "you guys arn't rowdy at all, when I was your age, camping was a case of beer and a chicken. We would just pass out on the ground." I thought to myself, "when I was their age, camping was a tab of acid and a candy necklace," but I kept it to myself.

Here we are at the beach. It was really hot out there and I got to get naked in sun again which is my favorite thing to do. If any of you have never tried swimming naked, go for it. It is really fun.

Provincetown is the gayest place in the world. There is also tasty food.



I feel bad for all the families on vacation that must have thought it was not so queer.

I am glad we aren't staying here. Everything is tourist priced. (e:matthew) ordered scallops for like 17 bucks.



Terry and I got the lunch special for 7.95 which was really bad. White bread, mayonaisse, white fish and canned clam chowder. Yuck. Total: 43.00 for not so tasty food.

It was called the mayflower family diner on commercial street. This town is definately a capitalist mecca.

Everybody in Provincetown seems into the Atkins [inlink]paul,519[/inlink] diet. Notice this sign from a soda-pop machine.

The water is very warm on the bay sidde of the cape. We got to see hermit crabs and little regular crabs all over the place. The water is that perfect mix of shallow and warm, like on the gulf of Mexico. I assume the other side will be colder.



We were wondering who lives here year round and how much a home costs. I would move here for sure, at least for summers. The only problem is there are really somany tourists, including us.

While at camp we stopped at walmart to pick up some stuff for a potluck dinner. I would normally never shop there but we had no other real options. I am sure that this is the plight of many places in small town America.

This walmart was not a regular walmart. It was the most intense super-mega walmart I have ever seen, complete with grocery store. However, it was not red, white, and blue like other walmarts, it was a green and yellow theme which made the whole shopping experience seem highly unpatriotic, hahaha.

Everything was beyond big size and ultra cheap, I can see the appeal for poorer americans with no options. Surprisingly, the quality of food, although surely all genetically engineered and sprayed with chemicals, seemed at par with any main stream grocery store. They even had the same main stream brands, as well as, products like tofu and get this meltable, shredded, vegan mozarella substitute. I would have killed for that ten years ago.

For example you could get a gallon of heinz ketchup for 1.66 or check out the giant mayonaisse containers below. Matt said we should have bought them as weights to work out with.



Too bad all of the price reduction comes at the expense of child labor and sweat shops in asia. Remember, 10% of China's exports go directly to Walmart. It's also at the expense of nearly every other store in the surrounding town shutting down.
While at the liquor store, the man in front of me bought a bottle of wine and a cork screw. When he got up to the cashier he asked how much the cork screw was. She said something like 3.50 and he said he'l just pick one up at the walmart then. I think that's how everything eventually shuts down around the walmart.

Not to mention the other super-sized product of walmart, the regular customers. It may be that some ofthem had medical disorders, blah blah but not as many as I saw. I think they themselves had simply become the product of Walmart's food deals like the by one get one gallon of mayonaise. I mean we no longer have to expend any energy in the hunt or farming of food production. So when you couple that with cheap prices and mega sized stuff, you get mega super fat assess, a la walmart style.

My favorite part of all, was that in the jewlery department they has a machine (see picture, if it works) where you could send messages to the troops. Unfortunately, the messages we pre-programmed and and you had like 60 choices. That is so fake.

I bet the troops really bothered reading the form letters with repetitive messages they receive in the end. Maybe they just get a pie chart, lol with 20% said good job, 30% said kill more children.
Oh wait, that one was not an option.