In May 2023, armed with only a DSi for photos, I piled into a plane going 600mph towards London. The goal? To see Caby, my girlfriend of four-and-a-half years at the time, residing on the outskirts of the capital of Wales. Castles were visited, museums were turned upside down, and one-too-many plushies came back home with me.
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Here's the way it happened, and here are those photos.
- Day Zero: Learn to Fly
- Confusion about PreCheck! Films featuring degenerate sex acts! Sleepless nights over the Atlantic! (And yes, I did hear "Learn to Fly" on the drive in to Newark.)
- Day One: Heathrow, London
- Being lost in a city with a girl you only just met—now that's romance.
- Day Two: The Natural History Museum
- In which I bring a dinosaur in to take pictures of dinosaurs.
- Day Three: Downtown Cardiff
- Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, my new favorite band!
- Day Four: Rapping About dcb's Eighth Grade Scented Green Pencil Story
- The first of many days spent comfy indoors. Maybe I just wanna relax with my girl.
- Day Five: Gamedachis and archives.somnol Patching
- Did you think I'd leave the tech behind just because I was in another country?
- Day Six: A New Path Into Town
- The family car did a broke, so we walked into town. Pretty, but not recommended.
- Day Seven: Restorativland
- A blink-and-you'll-miss-it fixation on gathering Geocities sites.
- Day Eight: Miranda
- Doodling a new kitty girl, and turning her into the mascot of archives!
- Day Nine: The River Taff
- Adventure basically in Caby's backyard! Sorta!
- Day Ten: Colton and somnol.net Headshots
- Another lazy day around the house drawing...
- Day Eleven: Death in Paradise
- I watched a lot of iPlayer while I was over there...
- Day Twelve: The Cardiff Museum
- A big blue phone box, an iconic newsdesk, and a cart of Paddingtons—that one might just be the gift shop. Oh, and there were badgers there other than me!
- Day Thirteen: Crate Digging
- A big stack of CDs for a growing boy (that, no, I didn't think about how I'd get home).
- Day Fourteen: Flippynotes
- I got Caby obsessed again :blobokhand:
- Day Fifteen: St Fagans
- Stop giggling, that's actually what it's called.
- Day Sixteen: Pinède on Earth
- So many castle ruins! You'd think we were in Wales or something.
- Day Seventeen: Hanging Out With the Piggos
- Eating birthday cake as your girlfriend tends to the piggos, that's the life.
- Day Eighteen: How to Fill My Wife's Beaver
- With a 15 pound banana treat package, of course.
- Day Nineteen: Say Goodbye to Cardiff
- Wandering the village one last time before we leave for London...
- Day Twenty: The Science Museum
- Our last hurrah in London—I've never seen so many old computers in one place!
- Day Twenty-One: Leaving on a Jet Plane
- It's not "goodbye", it's "see you later".