Lovemonkey Studios Blog

The life of an Austin working musician, recording engineer, general music whore, and Breakfast Taco fiend.

Category: On Vacation

The Ultimate Road Trip Guide

I like hyper­bole, so I admit that the title above is a lit­tle over the top. This isn’t the Ulti­mate Road Trip Guide (URTG from here on), or even close. These are just a series of thoughts and guide­lines I had while tak­ing a Thanks­giv­ing road trip to Florida. 1) Why am I qual­i­fied to […]

The best cup of coffee of my whole life

I some­times feel like I have a charmed life. Maybe every­one feels this way, but it’s those lit­tle things that hap­pen that have noth­ing to do with money, or sta­tus, or any­thing but know­ing some­one who knows some­one cool. That’s what hap­pened to me today. I’ll just unroll the story as it went. We were driving […]

Things you see in Puerto Rico on New Years Eve

Puerto Rico is going to be a fun place to spend New Year’s eve, and the island takes on a very fes­tive qual­ity. Here’s a few exam­ples of some of the things I’ve seen. 1) When I was here last sum­mer, I ate a won­der­ous thing called Lechon. A Lechon is a whole pig slow roasted […]

Back Again!

I’m just back from Puerto Rico again. It was a great trip. Not much hap­pened, except I got engaged. !!! There will be more on this as time goes on I’m sure, but this isn’t going to become a Wed­ding blog. The LMGF will now be the LMF (Love Mon­key Fiancee) until the tran­si­tion to […]

Roswell, New Mexico

I just returned from a quick week­end road trip to Santa Fe to meet up with my par­ents. One of the towns we drove through was the leg­endary town of Roswell, New Mex­ico. For those of you who don’t know, Roswell is the town near the mys­te­ri­ous “Area 51″ Mil­i­tary base where an Alien spacecraft […]

Dante made my travel arrangments

Where to start? I can’t even imag­ine. When last I left you, I was sit­ting on a plane that was sup­pos­edly about to take off. Need­less to say, that didn’t quite work out. I was still sit­ting there two hours later, and trust me, it was even hot­ter and even more stinky. There was all […]

Where Am I?

Where am I again? I think I should check in with my blog. See how every­thing is going out there in Cyber­space. Wow. Seri­ously? Like, three entries this year? Lame. I really should do more with it. So let’s put out an update on life. Well, first of all, where am I? I’m on a plane. Where […]

Puerto Rico, Pt. 2: The Places

In my two weeks in Puerto Rico, I went all over the island. I got a good chance to see quite a bit of the var­i­ous things it has to offer grin­gos like me. I think I’ll start with some gen­eral stuff and then get into specifics. To start, all of Puerto Rico was amazingly […]

Guitarless in the land of Snow and Mormons!

I’m writ­ing this from the Sug­ar­house Cof­fee Com­pany in the trendy Sug­ar­house neigh­bor­hood of Salt Lake City. I’ve been here for just under a week now with my Fam­ily doing the Thanks­giv­ing thing and check­ing out my Brother’s new house (thumbs up Bro!). Not too much to report, except a few batches of Salt Lake […]

Happy Thanksgiving 2007!!

I’m seri­ous. It’s just a mat­ter of time people.