Sail Log

Friday June 16, 2006
I showed up at CC Reservoir to rent one of the little boats. The park rangers weren't there---again, so I was about to go home. Fortunately, Bruce and Jeff were there. They were taking out one of Victoria Sailing School's J-boats and they invited me along.

The winds picked up. We heeled the boat. I got totally soaked. It was a great night of sailing.

Monday June 19, 2006
My crew bailed. YK was "sick". So I took one of the J-boats out myself. It is so much of a challenge to get one of those boat by yourself. It can be done, but it is a challenge... mostly intellectual. I managed it with only one little hitch. I did ram the dock a wee bit when I came in the first time. I fortunately wasn't going fast enough to do any damage.

So it's been a learning, fun, sailing week for me.

New Traveling Juke Joint Podcast

Check out the website at http://travelingjuke.libsyn.com/

Photos

I just realized how valuable flickr is. I'm uploading all my good photos and some average photos up to flickr. I've almost maxed out my uploads for the month. You can check them out here.

Sorry no Sparky photos, but lots of photos of my little nephew Kailash!

:)

Sparky Sleeping

Traveling Juke Joint-Dallas Part 2

The Traveling Juke Joint 13, Dallas Part 2 just posted.

You can visit the site at: http://travelingjuke.libsyn.com/

or a direct link to the show is here.

$0.49 Breakfast

No shit. I paid 49 cents for breakfast. And not that crappy "continental" breakfast. Real breakfast... with eggs and hashbrowns.

I went up to Cripple Creek with TG to ride the narrow gauge railroad. It brought me back to my Disney days as a conductor on the steam trains. The big difference was the size of the trains and that these were coal burning instead of deisel.

Anyhow, we arrived early and were planning on breakfast. I didn't realize that Cripple Creek was a gambling town (slots only), so the casinos almost give away food to entice their clients to stick around. Damn good breakfast.

In a sense, it was like going back in time, when a dollar was worth something. It was marvelous. The total bill, with coffee and a side of green chili---$3.70. Awesome!

I wish I had categories on this blog like you do on wordpress... I'd definitely put it under "cheap bastard".