Category Archives: Travel

Moving Party at the Galway Hooker

Tanya Harding Card from Amy.Nik and Julie.

Last night Julie and I had our ‘Going Away Party’ at Galway Hooker with several friends. There was a good turnout and we had most of the upstairs bar to ourselves. There were a couple shots, a lot of talk about football, and a lot of strategizing about how to pack a large truck (the only common thread is to fill the truck up to the top).

Thanks to everyone for coming out. I’m sure we will see many of you soon enough, be it here or in Chicago. Thanks for the good times.

BTSH Fresh Kills members: Julie, Alicia, Brice, and Jeff.Lauren, Julie, Cassie and Trevor

Julie and Nick Barbone plotting.Julie and Cassie thinking about Mets away games.Nik Bronder being the creepy guy in the room.Julie and Jeff from Fresh Kills.Julie and Marcia from NBCSports.comNick Barbone experiencing the Jet Engine Technology that Galway Hooker deploys in the Mens Room.Shots from Lauren.Karen and Alicia.Alicia and BR (Alicia was clearly working the room).BR, Bob, Lauren and Julie.Alicia was again working her charm.Jim Wallis calling Patrick Swayze.Nick Barbone saluting the career of Patrick Swayze.Jim Wallis looking into the vast abyss that life has become.A couple beers and our tab.Empire State Building on the way to find some pizza.Nick Barbone trying to get this stupid droid to display a hologram of a princess.Pizza Found.So in this photograph I’m blowing on my flaming hot slice of pizza, go to next image.And in this photograh I have foolishly taken a bite of the before mentioned blazing hot slice of pizza.On the way home Nick insisted on riding Shotgun.

*Side Note:

Our Move will be thoroughly documented in the coming days, as I write this I’m completely surrounded by cardboard boxes stacked 4 feet tall. Wish us luck.

Nick Barbone pointing out the flaws in my packing method.

The rest of the photograhps are on Flickr.

Previous Going Away Parties: Number 1, Number 2.

Chicago Trip (ie Pizza).

Chicago: Giordano's PizzaChicago: Giordano's Pizza

Julie and I went to Chicago for the weekend.  As you can see any time I stop in Chicago there must be a meal of the best pizza man has ever created; Giordano’s.  Last time I drove to and from Chicago in a day for a slice of heaven, this time we made a weekend of it.

Side Note:
* In the photograph above I am completely in my element.  Blue dress shirt, non-matching random t-shirt, pitcher of beer, and the best pizza on the planet.
** A couple more images on Flickr.

The Cook's Visit New York.

Nick and Shelia Cook at Rockefeller Center.

This past week The Cook’s came out to visit and take in the City. Their trip, which covered more groud during than I have in nearly 8 months, included three of the five Boroughs of New York City. While not working, Julie and I had dinner with them at Heartland Brewery at the Empire State Building and Dee’s in Queens (which just so happens to be my favorite Italian place ever).

Nick and Shelia Cook at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.Rockefeller Center.Julie Rubinstein and Nik Bronder at Rockefeller Center.

The Cook’s took the form of travel favored in the 19th Century… the Rails. Granted they didn’t excatly travel like a commoner in their upgraded ‘Sleeper Car‘. But they took the road less traveld nonetheless.