Three Hundred

Day 300, 6/27/15

Had to drive back in Indy due to forgetting my winter coats.  Rode up to hostel to meet Paul and Kelly and Kelly's friend Cara for drinks.  Later met Dan and Kayla for the RBF show.  Aaron was the only original member.  "Saxel Rose", the group's newest member sang Scott's parts, but it wasn't the same.

Somebody pulled a Mundell trying to make it through some high water.  #swannie

Week 3

Day 296, 6/23/15

Tuesday of Week 3 and cook out happened!  I passed up on chicken soft tacos and rode the gravel trail up to the OPC where I enjoyed a quiet potato salad dinner.

Photos from camp

Day 297
Rode at camp before leaving in time to make it back for the last softball games of the season.  After getting blown out in game 1 we came from behind to tie and eventually win game two in extras.


Day 298

After getting things mostly packed up I rode to City Market where Brenda cut my hairs one last time.  Met Dan at TTap and ran into Sam as well.  Later had Yats up at the Hostel.


Day 299

Camp, week 3 complete.  Rode back an forth from BH.  Went into town with some counselors and enjoyed FARM Bloomington, a delicious F2T joint.  Mostly good things to say about the place.

Photo from visitindiana.com

Allelujia it's raining rain!

Day 291, 6/18/15

Road monon to the terminus with Pat and Brad.  Got caught in the rain on our return so we stopped at Bub's for a famous burger while we waited for it to pass.

photo from flckr.com.  (it was much rainier on our visit)

Day 292

Drove a load back to camp in the early morning and stuck around to help with Mass.  Later I returned to Indy and road downtown to meet the folks for dinner.  The concierge gave me a sideways look when I rolled in the doors but it was raining and Dad offered their sweet for my bike.

We walked to Yard House where Alex prepared us some great dishes.  Got caught in the rain on our way to the Noodle and had to change course to Claddagh until it passed.


Day 293

Took a load to BC with dad and then packed up the car for them to take a load back to FW.  Packed up my car once again including the Mishiki townie that I re-esembled and took for a cruise before going to Paul's for his big event.


Day 294

Sunday of week 3 at camp.  Rode Bruce around camp.  Got wet on the way home.

After dark I hiked to check out the bioluminescent fungi that was reveled within a fallen tree.  Not my photo, but it looked something like this:

wiki

Day 295

Monday of week 3 at camp.  Bruce topped out at 25 MPH coasting down from the OPC.

Moving Out

Day 287, 6/14/15

Spent the day packing and loading the car before heading back down to camp.  Took Bruce for a short dark ride up the gravel road to the OPC.

Photos from camp: OPC

Day 288

After updating the blog it is now after midnight so my ride back to BH is being logged for Monday.

The next day I dove head on into my new position.  Rode Bruce all over camp.  Getting "upstairs" to the BH is quite a bit more difficult than coming back down.


Day 289, 290

Continued taking Bruce stomping around camp.

Just Visiting

Day 283, 6/10/15

Got back early this morning.  Rode to KSR to meet the guys for a lunch of wings.  It was amazing!
Stopped at O'malias and rented HTM 2 which actually made me laugh more than once.

We split our softball games including a convincing two hit win.


Day 284

Spent the morning cleaning and packing the apartment.  Rode to return my movie before mom, Mandy, and the kids came by.  We checked out the symphony at Garfield park.


Day 285

Took the kiddos to the Children's Museum which is always fun.  Matt stopped in to town after they left and we rode around the Cultural Trail stopping for drinks at Elbow Room and Dorman St.  Bruce bucked Matt into the street, but he took it like a champ.


Day 286

Rode around with Matt and Pat checking out Pride and Italian Fest.  We had lunch at City Market.  Three Days in Paris' Red Bacon is the shit!

BBB: Cincinnati

Day 282, Cincinnati

Spent the morning cycling along on of Pittsburgh's 6 river banks (3 rivers, 2 banks apiece).  All of which have lovely trails along them.

Headed out to Cincinnati for the Hofbrauhaus and Great American.  Beers were good, bike to the stadium was fun, watching Votto knock 3 dingers was a blast!

BBB: Pittsburgh

Day 281, Pittsburgh

Left DC after sleeping VERY well.  Almost immediately after suggesting we explore the route a bit, Pat found a sign for at Antietam.  We took the 10 mile detour in to the battlefield and from there explored via bike.  The landscape was very beautiful and historic, but Pat had a hard time keeping up on his single speed.

Pat snapped me enjoying the view as he trudged up one of the many hills.

Once in Pittsburgh we left the bikes at the hotel as the forecast called for rain.  The forecast was right.  After the first rain delay, the stands were all but empty except for Pittsburgh's most dedicated.  This fan base was very knowledgeable and not at all cordial to a couple of Reds fans.  One woman suggested I "get rid of that shirt if I want to get laid tonight."  I told her that "I almost exclusively make love with my shirt off."  The gentlemen in her group made sure that was the end of the conversation.

Reds fan enjoys the lonely view of the Steel City.

Baseball, Breweries, Bikes: DC

Day 280, Washington DC

Arrived in out Nation's Capitol around 8am.  We quickly found a parking space at a near by park and took off to explore the city.
Highlights included the Smithsonian(s), White House, and the perhaps most interesting, the lockkeeper's house.
According to a PBS travel show, confirmed on plaques, and recalled with the help of Wikipedia, the lockkeepers house was built at the joining of the Washington City Canal to the C&O.  The lockkeeper and his family moved into the structure in 1835 where, for 20 years, he collected tolls and directed traffic for the canals.  As railways became more prevalent the canal was closed barge traffic before finally being filled in two decades later (currently Constitution Ave).  The house was home to squatters and even prisoners then Park Police used it as a lock up.  Currently it is empty with potential plans of opening it as DC's smallest museum.

House fit for a lockkeeper (and his 13 children) Photo by PB

Lowlights: CONSTRUCTION all over the Capital Building and Mall!  Lack of bars/breweries around stadium.
We found one brewery which served it's purpose of feeding and drinking us.  The real treat was found at The Bull Pen.  Directly outside the stadium between stacks of retired railroad cars was beer garden and pregame party!  Open two hours before each home game, next time we will go straight here.

Hard to capture the Bull Pen's true beauty.

The game was great and National's fans are very friendly.  The game was a sell out and seemingly all 40,000 people had a comment for my Astros Ryan jersey.

Pat outside of National's Park.

School's Out

Day 277, 6/4/15

Rode around downtown on the way to work.  Later rode to Indy Met for final mentor session of the year.  What a beautiful day!  I'm going to miss riding in Indy.


Day 278

A beautiful day to celebrate National Donut Day!  Rode to work for the last time where Ben made donuts and Matthew some PDG tuna salad.  Those job perks will be missed.  After work rode to Sun King then out for First Friday.  Paul and I rode to Irvington to eat at Beast but the truck was out of commission.  We ended up getting dinner at Chatham and watching Polka Boy at the Rathskellar.


Day 279, 6/6/15

Rode with Pat up to Butler for some morning Ultimate.  Later that night Pat and I were packed up and driving to DC!

Slipped a Mickey

Day 274, June 1st, 2015

Rode to work.  The mouse is on his way (and in a surprisingly good mood)!


Day 275

Drove to work in order to pick up the Mouse.  Full moon ride tonight around Cultural and Wapahani Trails.  Ended up at Chilly Water.

Day 276

Drove to work in order to pick up the Mouse.  Met with Pat who rode up from the South side.  We rode a bit and shared a beer. Softball tonight was quite a good time.  We won our first game of the season!