I noticed that one of the searches hitting my page was for “blackwater” and “davis,” and it made me go back and take a look at my original post. The original post has a mention of the YouTube video for the quads portion of the Blackwater 100, and you have to go over to [...]
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Monoshock! (Blackwater Revisited)
Posted in Expeditions, Moto, tagged blackwater 100, davis, monoshock, motorcycle, yamaha xt on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Sword My Companion
Posted in Entertainment, Expeditions, Physical Training, tagged arming sword, fencing, longsword, maryland renaissance festival, pyrates royale, rapier, sabre, side sword on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, all things being equal, the trip up to the Renaissance Festival wasn’t a total loss. This in spite of the fact that everyone–and I mean everyone, that jumped up and down and exclaimed how much they really wanted to go with me to the Faire totally bailed on me, and that I couldn’t [...]
That Time Again
Posted in Entertainment, Expeditions, Humor, Music, tagged friends, fun, maryland renaissance festival, pyrates royale on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yup–going to the Maryland Renaissance Faire again this year, with the Mary Wash Fencing Club. There’s a lot of overlap with the Renaissance Club so we usually band together and head out that way for the last weekend of the festival. This year it’s the 18th of October.
They’re headed out at like, really [...]
Men In Skirts
Posted in Entertainment, Expeditions, Music, Physical Training, tagged fun, highland games on September 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This looks like fun:
Virginia Scottish Games and Festival
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a Highland Games. Fredericksburg used to be on the international circuit and actually hosted the World Championship one year (1997, I think). One of the pros, Carl Braun (what a great name for a heavy athletics competitor [...]
Moto Trippin’
Posted in Expeditions, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged motorcycle, road trip on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spent all morning on the bike with these shady characters:
We went from Fredburg up to Front Royal via mostly highways, stopped at a nifty little shop and bought some “apple” donuts. Then we headed back down to 17 via a bunch of back roads. At the Sheetz we stopped at on 17 heading [...]
Buncha cork-soakers…
Posted in Entertainment, Expeditions, Humor, Travel, tagged festival, wine on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A group of us went here today. Fun was had, grapes were stomped, hooliganism occurred, bottles were broken, sangria was spilled. There may be photos to prove it…
Bike Today
Posted in Expeditions, Travel, tagged dl650, motorcycle, suzuki, vstrom on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not that I’m in love with my bike or anything… but I did just have to take a pre-ride photo for today. Why–I dunno, just did (okay–maybe I am in love with my bike, just a little bit ).
Oh, and no, it’s not orange (although I like orange/bronze on vehicles). [...]
Blackwater
Posted in Entertainment, Expeditions, Travel, tagged davis, family, Humor, motorcycle, race, west virginia on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Found a video again on YouTube of the Blackwater 100 Race from Davis, WV. I’ve looked a few times, but only a couple come up. This one is from 1988, I believe. (Love that 1980’s videography and graphics… )
As kids we went there as a family, in more of the heydays [...]
Don’t Miss the Boat
Posted in Entertainment, Expeditions, Travel, Uncategorized, tagged boat, expedition, friends, Travel on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay–a quick post with some pix I took with my phone yesterday, while we were transporting a friend’s boat, below. I might flesh out the story later, when I have some more time.
This is Don’s lab Daisy, who moved (naturally) as soon as I took the pix. Or I just wasn’t very good with [...]
Raw Men Noodlin
Posted in Expeditions, tagged fishing, noodling on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, no real workout tonight, but I did catch a wild documentary on PBS (geek that I am ).
Okie Noodling – the story of a rare breed of hand-fishermen.
I’d heard about it before, especially in the context of “canoodling,” or handfishing for snapping turtles. It was nice to see this in [...]
