Estrella War XXIII

So I experienced my 3rd Estrella War. It was a great deal of fun, once again, though this time Timmur happened to be King of Artemesia. Too cool.

So I decided this was a goal destination for my walkabout, and arrived on Wednesday, and stayed til yesterday afternoon. I got to spend some time with friends I don't see all that often, and made some new friends, too. In particular, Cat, the wife of Don Tarkesh. She's very cool, and I can hardly wait to meet her other half. :-)

In addition, Edmund and Jael were there, which was pretty cool. We three were the Eastern Rapier Army, and represented our Kingdom well, I do believe. I had the opportunity to help command the Artemesian fencers, which was quite the honor...we won Artemesia its first Rapier war point.

Poor Edmund, unfortunately, got hurt, so he chose to not fence Saturday. Instead, he went out and about - taking my camera along. He got some pretty cool photos.

A shot of the site:


Lucan and Jana, King and Queen of the East:


Me fencing Rowan:


Me and my Artemesian friends - Rowan, Cat and Elyas:


I'll do another post with some pictures I took.

More Estrella XXIII Photos

Since he took all those shots, figured I needed proof of his precense. Edmund at Estrella:


Sunset, looking across camp:


A better sunset shot:


Estrella War Grand Court:


It was another good time at Estrella War. I enjoyed once more the time I got to spend with the Artemesians, and had fun seeing all my other friends and acquaintances there as well.

I will try very hard to do this again next year.

Roswell that ends well...

I could not resist - I had to see it for myself. Today I drove into Roswell, NM.

So I am driving along, and I know I will be passing through White Sands, which had a history of sightings and of course played a large part in the early space program. So I glance out the window to my right, and in addition to a great view, I see some kind of unidentified flying object:


Well further along I pulled over, got a somewhat better photo, and zoomed in. It looked a lot like it was just a blimp. Ah, well.

So I drive along, and finally reach Roswell. Sort of necessary to check out the International UFO Museum and Research Center:


Ah, the conspiracy:




Forgot that today was a holiday, so not much else was open. I explored downtown Roswell, some...but quickly ran out of things to do. So I made my way to my hotel, and plan to start out early tomorrow for Louisiana.

No more posts today...promise!