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It's spitting rain.
Helping host a fairly large tailgate for the Rochester Rhinos soccer game this afternoon. I guess I should get my butt moving and start getting ready.
Wicked busy day today...got to go grocery shopping and take a nap.
Kayaking was rad yesterday. Stopped and swam too. Plus a couple river beers. Tacos turned out awesome, will be eating them most of the week. Tied a couple on, now my liver hurts.
run to store/shop/steal grocery cart/run home/nap.
Traveling to the lake for vacation. Car full of woman who is angry. I am hiding at the tailgate pumping gasoline.
coffee and trying to deside between sausge, bacon, or carne asada, to go with my eggs for breakfast. More watching women ride horses today.
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stay away from the sharks.Nice to know people in North Carolina drive like fucking retards too.
This
and this.
On the advice of my legal counsel I called in. Since I was up, ran a 5 miler, which was even less awesome than usual due to hangover. Made waffles, and now I think I'm going back to bed.
Woke up slightly hungover at 6:15 to join an early 7:30AM ride in Wompatuck. Now fixing late breakfast, taking wifey shopping, and perhaps will ride again with a next door buddy later in the evening.
Also, ordered the dentists' Reverb remote, I have had enough suffering with the plunger POS.
Also, ordered the dentists' Reverb remote, I have had enough suffering with the plunger POS.
Stop trying to control everything and just let go.
Aaæaaaaaand the liquor stores are closed on Sunday. FTMFL. 
Rookie mistake.Aaæaaaaaand the liquor stores are closed on Sunday. FTMFL.
Man, it is hot out today.
Pretty heavy rain today for the first time in about 3 months. What better time to attempt a hike with the family?
Pretty Much any time, as it turns out.
2 hours of whining and/or screaming.
#hikefail.
Too pooped from the ordeal to attempt a ride. Although it did stop raining now... Probably some "hero dirt" to be had.
Meh.
Pretty Much any time, as it turns out.
2 hours of whining and/or screaming.
#hikefail.
Too pooped from the ordeal to attempt a ride. Although it did stop raining now... Probably some "hero dirt" to be had.
Meh.
Rode green Mountain Trails in Pittsfield. Lots of trails, confusing signage, few people on trails, only saw two others all afternoon. Nice ride.
poor ss. first, goes to the wrong part of the state; second, tries to buy alcohol before noon on Sunday. it's pretty ruff here. look out for sharks, too. also, trust me, don't speed at les OBX-the cops are assholes.
took the 10yo and a bunch of his friends rafting, rock climbing, ropes course/ziplining at the local whitewater center for his bday today. went pretty well. good times.
beers are now being consumed, along with chips, guac, and salsa.
waiting on new top headset to arrive; hopefully before wednesday so i can squeeze in a ride before the annual family epic roadtrip to see my parents in maine.
took the 10yo and a bunch of his friends rafting, rock climbing, ropes course/ziplining at the local whitewater center for his bday today. went pretty well. good times.
beers are now being consumed, along with chips, guac, and salsa.
waiting on new top headset to arrive; hopefully before wednesday so i can squeeze in a ride before the annual family epic roadtrip to see my parents in maine.
At how many MPH over do they consider you to be speeding?
depends...but 20+ over will get you (or at least me) hauled to the station. i'd bet you'd be ticketed between 5 and 10 over.
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In Vermont, 9 or 10 over seems to be pretty safe. Lots of fools exceeding that.
I went off-roading with my elder kid again. Wife and the infant stayed at home--wife doesn't care for the bumps, and they're probably not good for the baby's neck/brain.
Happy kid is a happy kid. She found what she thought was a white rock, which upon inspection appeared to be a piece of a white piece of pottery. This was near one of the mines on Mount McClellan.
The view across the Mount McClellan basin is nice.
The view from atop Argentine Pass is nicer yet. Apparently highest vehicle accessible pass in the US, per Wikipedia? One can't drive down the other side (hiking trail these days) so it's a destination in and of itself.
A peek down the non-vehicle side.
One of the more entertaining switchbacks, the last before Argentine Pass itself.
Vehicular casualty on the way down. It wasn't even on a tough section. I must have brushed up against a rock the wrong way and tore a silver dollar sized hole (as well as some smaller ones) in my Nokian's sidewall.
Whoops.
I had to ride on the rim for a few hundred feet until I could get to a segment that was level enough to jack the car up, so I may have bought myself a replacement rim as well. The upside is that I now am quite familiar with how to change a tire on my Land Cruiser, which has/had a full size spare, a bottle jack that jacks up amazingly high (necessary due to the ample droop travel on the thing), and a helpful owner's manual.
Not only is there a locking lug nut but there's also a locking spare tire crank! Both locking dongles were located, which is a good thing since I don't even want to imagine how expensive a backcountry tow would have been... I'd have driven out of there on the rim before doing that.
Happy kid is a happy kid. She found what she thought was a white rock, which upon inspection appeared to be a piece of a white piece of pottery. This was near one of the mines on Mount McClellan.
The view across the Mount McClellan basin is nice.
The view from atop Argentine Pass is nicer yet. Apparently highest vehicle accessible pass in the US, per Wikipedia? One can't drive down the other side (hiking trail these days) so it's a destination in and of itself.
A peek down the non-vehicle side.
One of the more entertaining switchbacks, the last before Argentine Pass itself.
Vehicular casualty on the way down. It wasn't even on a tough section. I must have brushed up against a rock the wrong way and tore a silver dollar sized hole (as well as some smaller ones) in my Nokian's sidewall.
Whoops.
I had to ride on the rim for a few hundred feet until I could get to a segment that was level enough to jack the car up, so I may have bought myself a replacement rim as well. The upside is that I now am quite familiar with how to change a tire on my Land Cruiser, which has/had a full size spare, a bottle jack that jacks up amazingly high (necessary due to the ample droop travel on the thing), and a helpful owner's manual.
Not only is there a locking lug nut but there's also a locking spare tire crank! Both locking dongles were located, which is a good thing since I don't even want to imagine how expensive a backcountry tow would have been... I'd have driven out of there on the rim before doing that.
There was a group on the way up as we were leaving. They couldn't have been more than 1/3 of the way into the ascent (8 miles RT, ~3800 feet of climbing) with a woman, who must have been at least 30, in full blown meltdown. "Who the FUCK chose this SHITTY FUCKING hike" etc.
one thing you might want to stash in the back.....a foot long piece of 2x6 to put under the jack....
I like to refer to them as Freedrivers. They like to turn left from the right lane without looking or signaling. And as the kid who hit me said, "I saw a parking space and just went for it."Nice to know people in North Carolina drive like fucking retards too.
Some will drive like they're on the Autobahn once they actually creep onto the highway and get going, only to poke along at a snails pace once in town. Most go about 20 mph in a 35.
Rode an old rooty trail this evening. Parts of the trail had moss growing over the roots. Kinda cool. Only saw one other rider, a dude on CX bike with a skate lid.
Not a bad idea. That bottle jack just kept on jacking up and up: multiple layers so it grew to 3x its original stowed height? I was leery until the end that it'd actually get my 32"s off the ground, but it did the trick.