BENGARLAND!com

January 19, 2007

Anya and I ate breakfast at the Early Bird Cafe. We couldn’t locate it at first, but a woman at a gas station knew where it was and told us to follow her (truck). At the cafe, I ordered an omelet with everything, and Anya got the veggie version of the same. We inhaled several cups of coffee too.

Ten miles down the road, Anya had some serious knee pain and told me to go on without her; she could hitch a ride to Houston. So I did. Getting to Houston took forever. It was at least 85 miles to downtown (I hit 1,000 miles there) and another 20 or so to the west side, where I was staying. 110 miles from Beaumont, and at 8:30 pm I finally got to Gerri’s house.

She welcomed me inside, showed me where I could put my things, introduced me to her cats, and sent me off to the shower. Once I was clean and presentable, we went out to eat Thai food. Both of us ended up ordering the chu-chee curry, but I got it with shrimp and she had tofu. Yum!

Gerri is so amazing. She’s an internet tech guru by day, musician by night, and a weekend adventurer. Loves to read, has an impressive music collection, owns PSB speakers, and her computer is a Powerbook. Like peas and carrots, her boyfriend Dharm is an electrical and computer engineer who designed the new 1 pixel camera sensor. He’s also completely hilarious. Needless to say, we all got along quite well.