More Dinosaurland
driving back up the long dirt road we got to see a few pieces of nature. like a hawk and some cows and more cows and stuff. we also could see about where our campsite was, in the next photo you can see steamboat rock(in the middle at the bottom) with the echo park cliffs all around it. was humbling to see how far we had gone and how far we had to go. from here it looks like the grand canyon. 
hey COW!
more giant dinosaurs. they were really everywhere.
liz singing young turks, a regular for her.
dinosaur! you will see more of this guy soon.
as you may have already seen, there was karaoke later that night. it had been a while since ive done the karaoke so i figured my song selection would get enough bonus points to make up for my lack of singing ability. above you can see me singing the back street boys i want it that way. later i figured i had to go for the cheesy boy/girl band double. which meant the spice girls say you’ll be there was up next. the high pitched voice i was attempting may or may not have worked in my favor. it took a lot of drinking for this all to happen and not just normal drinking cause the Utah beer doesnt work, its 2% or something terrible. so i felt like i had to drink a whole ton more to even get ‘im feeling good’ vibe going. but it was a very enjoyable night for such a small town.
dinosaurland, utah.
well thats nearly the actual name of the place. and if you look around you can see quite a few different giant sized dinosaurs. like pink dinosaurs with big eyelashes. i think i saw that one on jurassic park III last night.
liz had a good plan for the night. considering we had a 3 hour drive from salt lake city back to dinosaurland and the plan called for more driving on top of that, yeah it was going to have to be night plans. but good plans they were indeed: camping in echo park. 
“yeah it takes about 2 hours to get there because the last 13 miles are on a winding dirt road that you can’t drive through if its been raining.”
yikes. no wait, fun!
and liz was right. we drive 10 miles into the park on a real road with pavement and two lanes and stop signs and other normal things you see on roads. then we see a sign for echo park and something that reminds me of a hiking trail. the sign told us this trail will end with echo park after 13 miles. a beautiful drive followed. it felt like we were driving into the crand canyon. we could see for miles and everything was beautiful. i had never seen what a rainstorm looked like 20 miles away, we did from up here.
we finally made it down into the canyon and could see echo park and steamboat rock and a huge deer 15 feet from our campsite. we were definitely in nature. you could taste it with every breath. we settled in for a long night of guitar playing, smores and star gazing. wow i miss this place.
how big do you think that cliff is?
i dunno maybe 200 feet. 30o MAYBE.
[liz runs down to the base of the cliff, see photo]
hmm… thats at least more bigger.
gourmet smores! yum.
the great salt lake
leaving denver i cut a few sunflowers from slaby’s garden. yet another 9 hour drive ahead of us because we were making a detour through dinosaur national park on our way to salt lake city. it seems like we decided to step things up a notch as we left denver. we’ve been adventuring quite a bit but the adventuring needed a kick in the butt.
driving through the mountains our poor car puttered through like a champ. we have a lot of stuff in the car and its amazing the car made it up some of these mountains. the winding roads were pretty fun though. once we got past the mountains there were long stretches of desert and nothingness. it was beautiful.
running a little late we pulled in to dinosaur national monument in jensen, ut at 6 p.m. but i was excited to see liz for the fist time in a long while. she is currently interning at the national park to paint a 48 feet wide by 8 feet tall mural at the new dinosaur museum. gonna be huge and awesome. you’ll see some of her drawings soon. i was amazed at cause she lives inside the national park, kind of out in the middle of nowhere but mountains with in walking distance. and plenty of places to camp!
we loaded up quickly trying our hardest to make the three hour drive farther west to salt lake city. it was almost 7 p.m., the show starts at 8 p.m. and megafaun would go on at 9pm. ugh. we decided to go on and see what adventure we could find even if we missed the entire show. i’m sure salt lake city would have a few things for us to see.
more driving. more mountains. more beautiful.
halfway through the drive i send a message to brad:
“we are running a little late. create a diversion!”
if they did i’m not sure if it worked to well. we got to the venue, kilby court, which was described to me as someone’s back yard. well yes, it was. i figured it would be some bar with an awesome outside area. but no, it was kilby ct, the road with a venue at the end of it. it was beautiful.
this last one is like a wheres waldo for phil of megafaun. see if you can find him.
the denver
wow. another 9 hour drive. this makes a full day of driving over just three trips: raleigh –> indianapolis (10 hours+). chicago –> omaha(8 hours+). lawrence –> denver(9 hours). yikes. but if you think about it we did less sleeping than driving during those days. i guess thats a plus…
first thing we met up with nick, a recently relocated raleigh-er, who seems to be enjoying denver and all 100, or so, skate parks within an hour of the city. so much so that he messed up his shoulder about a month ago doing some jumps. he was doing some awesome trick and busted, but don’t judge him by that one fall. he’s pretty awesome and has enough guts to take chances on the bike and in life, a good man to be around.
we plotted about riding around the city the next day, yay, which we did. denver is a pretty awesome city and by bike its really awesome. felt like a normal big city downtown but less cars. very few cars actually and lots of bikes. lots and lots of bikes. nick told me the last city bike ride brought in over 700 people. sounds like a dream come true for him. and me too. one of the great things about raleigh is that i dont have to drive anywhere mainly because all i need in raleigh is pretty close together. but denver is huge and i feel like i can get around to most places on a bike. we stopped by the art museum and the convention center to see some of the public art. there was a huge blue bear at the convention center looking in the windows and some giant bulls outside the art museum. we climbed the bulls.
matt slaby, a fellow member of luceo images (and now we have a twitter account: luceo ), was kind enough to put us up for a couple nights. the day we rolled in to town he was out at some LARPing or live action role playing. check out his blog for some of the photos. it looked pretty awesome. when we got to his house we were a tired from the drive and drank some of slaby’s homemade wine, which was very good, and hung out playing him in some chess. i beat him pretty good a few times and then challenged him to a game where i dont get to see the board ust hear the moves. i would have beaten him…
the megafaun/bowerbirds show was great. one of the highlights of the night was after the music with phil from megafaun. we were doing some fun stuff for a video i’m making. he showed me a levitating hat trick then did some slow motion dancing. more on this later though.
then more wine at slaby’s. bed.
Lawrence, Ks. – You could hear adventure calling
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After the Omaha show we get word about Megafaun playing a show in Lawrence Kansas. This wasn’t on our list of places to go but Brad and Phil promised it would be worth it. They played there a bunch of times before, the venue was awesome and there would probably be a fun after party.
We could hear adventure calling. So we followed…
Just an easy three hour drive down to Lawrence, cake compared to some of the other drives. Once in Lawrence we met up with Megafaun and showed videos, talked about good Asian food and worked out the rubik’s cube, Kansas started off right. Later Helena and I went to seek out some good food. We walked the entire strip up to Free State Brewing Company, recommended by a Kansas friend, only to find the restaurant overflowing with people. So we quickly got some noodles on the way back to the Replay Lounge.
This place was madness. A huge outdoor area with a stage and an inside bar where most of the bands would play. There were also six, yes six, pinball machines. One was on free play. I played a bunch of games and felt pretty confident so I challenged Brad to a game, one on one. He walked up with his Golden State Warriors jersey on and proceeded to own my entire score with his first ball. Failed.
In front of a comic book scene Megafaun took the stage, you could see they had their game face on. Apparently the crowd did too. Lots of people and lots of dancing. The lighting in there was pretty awesome with some green shining on a disco ball, red millennium falcon dangling from the ceiling and some other fun colors which made for good photos.
Then we all partied.
More Omaha and Mustaches.
Omaha Day two.
After a great pizza lunch with Alyssa Schukar we realized it was time for business. The OkayGreat.com mustache project needed to get finished and we were excited. This first photo was from Chicago and of the wonderful Elif, who was kind of freaked out at having a photoshoot in public.
But then we had a better idea of making a video with the fake mustache:
special thanks to:
sarah knaack
tula leonard
Albert E.
tyler ringler
the table at the indian food place
travis R.
Matt Owens
Marilin M.
helena price
‘Lil E
Sherman Dinosaur
photos by Tim Lytvinenko
music by Kevin McLeod
Omaha + Megafaun + Bowerbirds + Awesome
omaha is pretty awesome. got to see the bowerbirds and megafaun for the first time on this trip. i got some more to say about omaha but we just got to lawrence, kansas and megafaun is playing soon. so ill have to get back to you on some thoughts. above are my favorites from the other night.
tim’s day 2 in chicago…
Hi! Up until now I’ve been shooting most of the photos and Helena has been doing most of the writing. But now we both will be writing and photoing. Watch for the author of each post to see who did what.
day 2 in chicago…
I woke up with a big day ahead of me. We made it to our first really big city, Chi-city, and there was so much on my list: hang with Common, go see Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Oprah. Well, I did listen to Common and sing his music all day while wondering.
Ok the actual list: Good Breakfast. A quick walk to the cornerstone cafe and a smiley waitress. “Ivana. Its sounds like I wanna. Everyone starts to say ‘I-want-a…’ and I say ‘Yes?’” The turkey avocado was yums. Helena got a salmon omelet so big I called it a football. She ate the entire thing.
Next stop Ukrainian Village to see my old friend Elif. Considering I’m Ukrainian, I’d have to say she lives in the best area of Chicago. So I bought me a one day “Fun Pass” from a check-it-to-cash corner store which upped the days cool points by 6. No maybe 10. I made my way down Western to Elif’s apartment for a quick hello before she went off to work. Made some photos with her wonderful window light before she started to break dance on top of her couch. Crazy. We then talked about her brand new [to her] giant van that she bought the day before. Then she posed with the vehicle’s title.
Wandering came next. I’m a big fan of street photography and all the random findings around a big city. I took the blue line down to the loop and started walking. Final destination at the Bean. I really do miss street photography.
After hanging out around the Bean for a while my tired legs needed a rest. I met up with Helena and we sat in Millennium Park for one of their Monday concerts. Wonderful music. Strings and beat-boxing. Meanwhile I find a photo of the rosebuds show at jackpot. Then immediately said crap and thought “would have been worth it to drive 15 hours to see them.”
rest time. power nap.
Elif finished work around 11 p.m. and we go to a bar in Ukrainian Village, The Bottleneck. Helena, Elif and I buy the Monday special, PB & J (PBR and a shot of Jim Beam. not in the same drink), look at the crazy baby doll heads on the wall and realize we missed the music completely. ha. We walk to another bar to meet up with Angus and Adam. Our progress gets halted by a very rude parking job. The SUV was blatantly in the crosswalk. So Elif keeps walking and proceeds over the SUV. “i mean it was the second of two illegally parked cars and it was entirely in the crosswalk,” she said explaining the simple cause and effect.
This new bar had more of a Ukrainian feel. The bartender spoke broken english and felt like an aunt of mine.
Taxi.
Bed…
West Virginia: Epic Clouds Today
A crazy day of thunderstorms and clouds.
Currently on 64 west closing in on Hurricane,WV
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