HEY SCOTT AND MARIA and beth if you still read this

haha ive ridden that shits to the vineyard and ill ride it to governors island

i pwn teh islander

i remember riding the islander when i was a kid!

my totally novice photog dad took a photo from this same angle: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/05/nyregion/islander_CA05.jpg

it was at sunrise and came out so good and the whole fam was so proud of it that he had it blow up and framed and it now hangs in my parents' MV-themed half-bath in their AZ home.

Hi everybody! I am SO GLAD to know that I can still ride the Islander! There's an Islander cult here, lotsa tourist coffee mugs emblazoned with her image, etc, but true love, too. A friend of mine wrote a long poem to the Islander that was printed in the Vineyard Gazette. I put off reading it for weeks, fearing I would find it sentimental, but when I finally read it, it made me cry. Sober.
I will find it.

Not gonna happen.

aw Beth <3

aw! (purrs with contentment)

aw the Islander

http://www.danamorris.net/steamship/islander2.jpg

<3

i want to visit
and that ferry is cute/awesome

we put the islander on the cover of our radio station's first CD:

http://a556.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/59/l_542c7cf961f8afcce8d85c84558c0d6b.jpg

oh, man! posting as Scott again. He never logs himself out after using my computer. ~ maria

http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2007/03/09/content/island_home_arrives_lg.jpg The replacement is not nearly as cute.

lol BAD WORDS

do the doors open faster on the new one?

I don't know. The new one has a car elevator that can fit extra cars above the cars, but they never use it because it takes too long to load. Also the new ferry is faster, but after a few runs they made it slow down to use less gas.

Hey Beth! Back from PUerto Rico!

We need more I can't stop picking up the yellow stones

I'll put in a scan of my Puerto Rican shells, as soon as I can figure out my scanner problem. My scanner is no longer one of the "import" options in photoshop. I guess I need to reload the freakin' software. Urgh.

As to the "Island Home" ferry above—I think its protruding wheelhouse brow makes it look like a member of the Simpson family, at least in profile. Doofus boat. Big, though. I'm all for that. Shorter waits in the standby line.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/prshells.jpg

That's just a random few fistfuls (fistsful?)out of my tiny-shell horde. I can't tell you how thrilled I was to actually find cowries washed up on a beach. I never thought I'd make it to such places. I've coveted these things ever since I was a little nerd girl who had a corner of my father's den set aside for my shell collection, displayed on black felt, labeled by common and Latin names. I drew them and diagrammed their internal organs. I made a little check in the field guide beside the ones I possessed. Each reference book had a sticker inside the front cover that said "science office." It's amazing that I developed into a person with an actual sex drive and had babies. Most of my shell collection got stolen by a druggy co-worker who sublet my apartment when I ran off to California with the father of my kids. I've had to build it up again from NOTHING. BY THE SWEAT OF MY BROW.

Oops, I meant to put all that in the yellow stone thread. I'm rusty.