Some photos

When I moved to Austin, I got myself a digital camera, making it simpler to allow others to trace my ways in this new country. So this is the place for the friends at home to see where I have been...

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Bachelor party (May 2005)

Tradition is: before your wedding, you have to go on a bachelor party. If this would have been the usual bachelor party, I wouldn't be able to show pictures. But somehow going for a hiking weekend seemed more appealing, so we drove to one of the state parks northwest of Austin to spend two days and two nights at a primitive camp site: no water, no fire (ah well), no toilets or showers. Just brush, grass, tents, mosquitos and other critters, and a bunch of sweaty men.

So here's the cast, with all the equipment we carried a mile and a half from the parking lot to the camp site: from left to right Rob, Jeff, Matt, Amit, Darren, with the author behind the lens:

Saturday was hot (well, it was Texas summer, after all), so we went on a walk to a little river. It was supposed to be 4 or so miles away, but we must have taken a few wrong turns so it took us some two hours cutting through brush and underwood. But we made it to the waterhole for a little swim:

The way back had some Texas wildlife:

Mornings during camping trip see fried bacon and an inspection of several dozen chigger bites (those are nasty nasty nasty critters; all of us had plenty of their bites all over out bodies, and it takes 2-3 weeks before they stop itching real bad):