Schwartzography

We rolled up to Aaaah T’Frere’s in Lafayette, Louisiana just on the heels of Twilight Time. Just as soon as our hosts could say bienvenue and offer us a crab crustard, they asked, “y’all here for the festival?” Well, I suppose we are now! We were just looking for a fun place to stop for …

About halfway between Lafayette and New Orleans alongside the Mississippi River lie a row of plantation homes. All of theses homes are no longer functioning as operation plantations, but they are now open as historical museums. Laura Plantation is the most modest of the homes, as it was run by a Creole family. In Creole …

Just imagine Erik’s eyes are open… We met lots of fun folks at SXSW, but only one invited us to spend the weekend at his house. Not only did Aziz, Sania and their littles have us down to Houston for the weekend, they really went out of their way to show us around town. We …

These crawfish were alive and crawling, no doubt about it. We’ve really had such a great time down in Austin so far. Lucky for us, we met some great Austinites down in Buenos Aires when we showed up to an underground dinner. They’ve become great friends, and have really been rolling out the red carpet …

Happy Friday the 13th! Here’s to hoping you’ll stay away from cats and rickety ladders today. We read some fun stuff on the internet this week: I’m not sure what I like more, watching Mad Men, or reading Tom and Lorenzo’s Mad Style, their take on Janie Bryant’s amazing costuming work on the show. TLo …

You guys, went rock climbing this weekend! Psych, we went on a hike at the Barton Creek Greenbelt and took photos of some dude we don’t know! We watched him try to flip up and over, but that huge cactus had other ideas. It’s pretty amazing that this place is just a few minutes drive …

You guys, we spent last week on a real, live farm about 30 miles outside of Austin. We quickly got used to early nights and early mornings, chickens, guineas and sweet puppies coming to visit us in our little cabin. Luckily for us, we got to reap the benefits of country living without performing any …

Cheers to the USA! It’s been a really incredible three months abroad, but we’re finally back and looking forward to a fun summer at home. We touched down for a few days in Austin, TX for SXSW. South by Southwest is a conference of insane tech, film and music industry types who take over this …

Good morning! During our last leg of international-ness, we spent two week’s with Erik’s work buddies at Table XI in Costa Rica! ¡Que linda! While plenty of work happened (here’s a shot of Erik giving a fascinating tech talk!), there was also lots of sightseeing and hanging out in paradise with a great group of …

Getting from Panama City to Playa Grande, Costa Rica proved to be somewhat of a difficult task. We figured since those countries are so close together that transporting between the two neighbors should be as easy as flying from Chicago to Toronto, right? Airlines only connect the two countries from capital city to capital city, …