| Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
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Arrived in Pomeroy
by brian @ 13:45:48 - [perma-link]Last night I parked te RV at a Walmart in Walla Walla because after
being on the road for 15 hours, I was pretty tired. This morning I
slept in until about 9:30 then made the short trip to Pomeroy. There were 2 unreserved RV hookups at the Garfield County Fairground
(whew!), so I parked and unpacked the car. I decided to pull in
forward, so my hookups are on the wrong side. I'll need a longer hose
to get water, but this way I can open the tailgate towards the car, so
the RV interior is part of the service area. The weather is gorgeous and it's supposed to hit 95 today.
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| Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
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Breakfast in Wyoming
by brian @ 09:01:01 - [perma-link]Rebecca and I put in a few more hours each after dinner and got to
within 150 miles of her Mom's house in Berthoud, CO. The fuel filter
was clogged and he RV was barely makig it up hills. I parked it at a
rest area at about 7200 feet altitude around 2 am and we went to
sleep. I have a dozen spare filters on board, but didn't feel like
changing it in the dark. This morning I changed the filter (taking a diesel bath in the
process) and now it's humming along like a champ. Easily pulling
75mph at over 8000 feet. We stopped for breakfast and we're shooting for an 11am arrival.
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| Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
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Blowout!
by brian @ 09:21:26 - [perma-link]Last night around 11, as we were driving across Oregon on 84, we heard
a big explosion. I was all, "WTF?!?!?" Rebecca went to the back and
heard sounds like a flat tire slapping underneath the RV. Total
blowout on the inside rear right. I pulled into the shoulder and
slowly drove a couple of miles to a rest area, called AAA and we
camped there for he night. This morning Superior Towing out of Baker came and changed the tire.
Now we're at Les Schwab getting 4 new rears (the fronts were replaced
recently with some extra new tires Lloyd threw in when I bought the RV).
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| Sunday, September 13, 2009 |
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Back/shoulder tattoo
by narcise @ 12:02:08 - [perma-link]
I'm almost two hours into my new piece, which is a full custom based on one
of the Lewis and Clark's maps of the Mississippi/Missouri confluence, with
a weeping willow tree overlay. Ryan Henerey, an old old friend of mine, is
doing a great job. Super gentle! Probably 2 or 3 more hours to go.
Sent from my BlackBerry
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| Wednesday, September 9, 2009 |
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Claudia has a
by ccons @ 19:24:11 - [perma-link]Lawn!
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| Sunday, September 6, 2009 |
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Party is...
by ccons @ 17:08:27 - [perma-link]Going well. :)
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Wow
by ccons @ 17:44:46 - [perma-link]Weather is fantastic!
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| Monday, August 24, 2009 |
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Autocross in Packwood, WA
by brian @ 11:16:06 - [perma-link]Rebecca and I drove up to Packwood, WA yesterday morning to autocross
my M3. We wanted to practice racing the car before Smackdown in
September. It was awesome fun! That car has so much power, and the
pavement has plenty of grip to lay it down. Someone in line behind us
asked me if I though it was "kind of dusty out there". I'm used to
racing on mud and dirt, so it seemed pretty grippy to me. I think I
put on a pretty good display of TMT-NET (Too Much Throttle, Not Enough
Talent). Smackdown is going to be a blast! Autocross is pretty much like rally cross, except its in a parking lot
instead of a field, there's no water truck and instead of half a dozen
car classes, there's like 15 million. The M3 turns out to be "A-
Stock". Since we're using street tires, someone told us we should run
in the "street tire class" (TAS instead of AS), since its a factored
class (whatever that means ;), and we wouldn't be competing against R-
compound tires. In reality it means we got spanked by a bunch of Mini
Coopers and Miatas, instead of being handily crushed by a Corvette. After we raced in the first group, we shagged cones for the second.
There was a really bad-ass GT-R in that group (and another stock GT-R
running in the afternoon, but we didn't stick around for that), which
looked like it had a little bit more power than the planet could
handle. It wasn't driving on the course; it was pouncing on each apex
like some crazed beast, turning and leaping out with a roar, searching
for its next victim. Once the driver learns to tame that power, it
will be seriously fast. Others of interest: a yellow Porsche GT3 that looked smooth, even when
it seemed to be picking up one of its front wheels along the back
slalom. A blue Z06 Corvette, which was dual-driven in our session by
a father and son team, then in the 2nd session by the son's wife (who
was pretty close to matching his times). The red mustang was
accellerating hard out of the big turn on the back, and mad some huge
clouds of smoke from the inside rear wheel on almost every lap. And
someone had recently acquired an old cop car, and put "RAM ROD" (ala
Super Troopers) on the back in blue tape. Nice! Watching that boat
barely make it (but it did make it!) around every turn on asphalt is
almost as tense and exciting as watching Kyle rallycross his.
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| Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
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Woot!
by brian @ 16:02:22 - [perma-link]Free wifi on my flight home. Sweet.
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| Saturday, August 15, 2009 |
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Sterling vineyards
by ccons @ 16:04:31 - [perma-link]Napa
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