hi...im in delaware

we stayed at lums pond state park last night and had a nice camp fire. we were the only campers there, the leafs on the trees were beautiful, that's pretty much all i can say about delaware... oh and there is NO sales tax here!! off to ocean city maryland today!Lindsey
our home

philly cheesesteak

as soon as we got into philly we went right to Pat's the originators of the philly cheesesteak and it was glorious. i didn't know they actually use cheez wiz and you wouldn't know it from tasting it, it was to die for. they give you all these hot peppers on the side too, which i could eat with anything. the locals would go up and just ask for a cheez wiz, i felt like a heel after i said the whole proper name " one philly chessesteak please" hahaha. the city was really awesome i def want to spend more time here, there are a lot of characters and a lot of photogs that need to be taken. philly is way different from just a half hour away in the quiet countryside, lots of beautiful stone homes,rivers and barns. the city is real loud with all these apartments and store fronts that all look like they connect, there was a man in a truck in front of us with two massive speakers BLASTING hip hop, we were behind him for quite a while , some people on the street would start dancing, others were pissed, we took a video. goodnight, Lindsey

The Brandywine River Museum...warning art nerd talk below

We woke up early this morning in Coatesville, PA, and headed over to the Brandywine Museum. I have been wanting to visit this Museum for years.


Here is Lindsey in front of the Museum before we went in
This is the view from one of the hallways. That is the Brandywine River in the background.
You weren't allowed to take pictures in the galleries, but Lindsey snuck this one really fast. I have been wanting to see these paintings in person ever since I was in art school. N.C. Wyeth has been a big influence on my work and I was glad to be able to study these famous paintings up close.
Here I am looking at a painting I used to drool over in school. I guess I still drooled a bit. The way N.C. designs his shapes and the simple way of suggesting detail was really neat to see in person. This painting of Pirates I am looking at was done in black and white, except for the yellow sky.
Another picture from the N.C. gallery
Here is a photo of me looking at an Andrew Wyeth painting in his section. The whole 3rd floor is dedicated to the Wyeths. One gallery had N.C., one had Andrew, and the other had Jamie as well as some other Wyeths and folks related to the Wyeths (Peter Hurd, etc.). Again, it was really cool to see Andrew's paintings, a lot of very famous ones here!

I would recommend this museum to anyone who is within a day's driving distance. If you aren't that close then fly here. Well I don't know...it was the ultimate museum for me, the Wyeths have been a big inspiration for me. So if you feel the same way, you need to see it.

Besides the Wyeth family there were really great paintings by Howard Pyle (N.C.'s teacher), Dean Cornwell, Mead Schaeffer, FrankSchoonover, Maxfield Parrish, and a lot of other insanely good painters that I have never heard of.

There is an exhibition up right now on the Second floor that shows the "Commercial" work of several illustrators next to their more personal "easel" paintings. Too bad that there is such a negative view of "illustration" vs. "easel painting" . Any of N.C. Wyeth's illustrations are 1000 times more creative than any easel painting done today, and even more creative than a lot of easel paintings done in his time. But since they are getting their idea from an art director or a book that they have to illustrate, some say that it isn't the stereotypical romantic artist, where he wakes up in the middle of the night with an idea, and runs into his studio, rubs paint all over his body, runs and jumps onto a huge canvas and then drinks absinthe and then glues newspaper to the canvas...etc. I understand the concept of illustration verses fine art, but I just don't agree.

After the museum we were off to Philly to find the perfect cheese steak. -Logan

Good morning sunshine.

Minnie girl after the first morning in White Plains, NY.

White Plains,New York

(Logan's brother Stephan showing off his dog tricks)

we haven't made it too far yet we are in white plains ,new york. we left yesterday and arrived at Logan's brother Stephan's and his wife Kimberly's house around 8pm. we hung out for a while and slept in their driveway in the van, they have 4 big dogs and minnie couldn't handle it! they of course

invited us to sleep inside but we were anxious to finally try out the van! we woke up a little stiff, but we''ll get used to it..today we just hung around with Stephan and Kimberly and went on a few errands to trader joes to pick up some food for our cooler, we will be driving into Philadelphia tonight and staying at a KOA campground, they are actually closed for the season but they are letting us stay:) it was really good to see stephan and kimberly and we are excited to get into philly there are a lot of musuems and places we wanna go! logans driving rigt now,its pretty weird being able to be on a lap top while in a car driving around! we should be in philly in about a hour!!!-lindsey

On the road...first stop

On the way to NY, I spotted a billboard for Frank Pepe's Pizzeria. I saw the place featured on some food network or discovery channel show, so we quickly pulled off the highway in Connecticut to check it out.





This is the line in front, you can spot Lindsey standing there, the line was about 30 min long.
Here is Lindsey at the front of the line...it smelled really good.
The pizza was good, but for some dumb reason we thought we should both try anchovies for the first time. So we got half cheese and half anchovies. They were strong as hell and kinda nasty. So we mostly stuck to the cheese side and ate around the fish chunks. Lindsey got a good soda, it was called white birch or something, it was kinda like root beer. They have been there since 1925 and the pizza is baked in a brick oven. They serve it on these big baking sheets and give you a couple plates on the side. The sheet just about took up the whole table. Oh and the person in charge of cutting the pizza makes these haphazard cuts like a madman, so some slices are triangles and some are non-shapes...I guess it ads to it. But if you are in the area, check it out we went to the Fairfield location, there are a few others. After that we hopped back on the old H-way for NY. -Logan

Finally .. on the road!