Longest Distance Traveled?

This past week I attended my first TequilaCon and I was amazed at the amount of people who attended.  I'm not into the blog crowd as much as many of the attendees were, so I didn't know most of the people, but it was pretty cool to see so many different bloggers.  I was also amazed at the work the TequilaCon crew put into the event. There was a lot of cool swag and it was apparent they put a lot of effort into the event.

I also want to thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Down With Pants for ordering Tequila shots for everyone!  Seen in the picture on the right, it seems like Brandon could pound down some Tequila.  (Now if we can only get Brandon to beat Copasetic Beth in Words with Friends.)  Also thanks to Brandon and Jen for the save...

There was some discussion / debate on who traveled the furthest to get to TequilaCon.  While I would love to claim that title, I have to admit I was already in Vancouver for business.  So the winner would have to be my beautiful blushing bride, Beth, who flew in to Vancouver the Thursday prior.  I'm lucky she was able to actually come into the country since she was stopped at Customs and questioned about why she was in Vancouver.  I'll leave you to read all about that on Copasetic Beth's blog.

According to Google, she would have traveled 2,836 miles by car, but by plane it looks like roughly 2,249 miles is the distance travelled.  Of course, since she flew to Salt Lake City, Utah then to Vancouver may help confirm her winning distance.

Overall, the trip to Vancouver was great, we met some really nice people.  A special shout out to Sizzle, Brandon and his wife, Laura, Dave, Vahid, Jenny, and Dustin for going out of their way and making me feel welcome. 

Fun with Dave

Today was the annual Davelanta event. Davelanta is where Dave, from Blogography, arranges a place and time for all of the bloggers in the Atlanta area to meet, talk and to just have a good time together. Dave arrived early, so Beth and I had the chance to

• eat lunch with Dave at Savage Pizza


• visit the High Museum of Art


• stop by the 20th Anniversary of the National Black Arts Festival


• take Dave to get a Frosted Orange at the Varsity.
  

Dave and Beth playing light sabers with their iphones. Click to go to my Picasa album at
http://picasaweb.google.com/khouston53.

Davelanta kicked off with meeting of a group of great people at Hard Rock Cafe. I figure Dave will be talking about the day on Blogography, so I'll take this time to list the top 5 things I learned from today's events:

1) Savage Pizza rocks. Although it's 30 min away from my house, I'll be back.

2) Art is really interesting, even if someone thinks a gray square with a blue square inside is worth putting up in an art gallery.

3) Wear ear plugs when you go to the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlanta - unless you want to leave being permanently deaf.

4) Bloggers are really cool people. I never would have thought that meeting strangers who read someone else's blog would have anything in common with me, but I was wrong. In fact, the blog you are reading may be from someone who lived in the house next door, went to the same school you went to, and even took the same class you did!

5) If you are going to blog, make sure you update it more than every 33 days or risk getting harrassed by other bloggers who blog daily. Yes, Lil' Dave, I'll update more often now.

Thanks, to Dave, for being a great blog matchmaker and for having another great Davelanta!