Memphis

The Crystal Shrine Grotto in the Memorial Park Cemetery,
a man-made cave of crystals, with dioramas of the life of Christ.

The Pool of Hebron beside the grotto, in front of the Cave of Machpelah.

The Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated
and site of the National Civil Rights Museum (auto-plays music).

Upstairs in former brothel Ernestine & Hazel’s.

Austin

Mexic Arte, which had cool street art like this.

Detail: Tony Ortega’s “La Marcha de los Desvalidos.”

Detail: Maria Natividad’s “Menudo Breakfast of Champions.”

Detail: J. Salvador Lopez’s “Swift/Devotion.”

Detail: Santiago Forero’s “Vietnam” (self-portrait from his Action Heroes series).

View from The Oasis, a restaurant overlooking Lake Travis.
When the sun finishes setting, everybody claps.

The Oasis had a lot of gaudily awesome artwork.

So did the downtown.

The coolest thing we saw were the bats, but I couldn’t get any good pictures.
Here are some on flickr: one and two.

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Also: here’s our new bunny, Harvey, running around my office.