No time like the present to start sharing pictures from my work trip to New Orleans for the Computer Mine. Going to split up cell phone pictures and pictures from the real camera again. This first collection is from Day 1 of the trip. Which was mostly a travel day.

The trip started out terrible. I hit, what I think was a sign, or something that was on the middle of the interstate. It shredded my front passenger side tire. I was stranded on the side of the road at 4 in the morning. Roughly. It sucked. Fortunately for me, Tony was able to pick me up on the side of the road and we got to the airport on time for our flight to New Orleans via Saint Louis.

Here I have to give a big shoutout to Andy. He was able to get to my car, change the flat tire (with the help of a sledgehammer) and get it back to Boone. Then Jesse was able to get the tire fixed. Fortunately it was mostly covered under roadside hazard. So that part of the bill wasn’t too expensive. Although there is still more to come. Thanks guys!

Here are the pictuers:

On the plane before sunrise. Yeah.

Flying.

Saint Louis Airport.

I took a lot of these type of pictures for potential THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE LETTERS OR NUMBERS submission.

Saint Louis swag.

This guy looks like he knows frozen custard.

That would suck if you were still in the airport the next day.

Airport art.

The most annoying fans in all of baseball.

Toasted ravioli?

You know I picked up some St. Louis stickers!

I thought about it.

Coffee is gross.

By far, my favorite piece of art in the Saint Louis Airport.

So many stickers.

Still another collection of images to share from Day 1. We eventually even get to New Orleans!