Year: 2009

Still Up

It has been almost a week and the top on the Emperor has been up the whole time because of a combination, cold, rain and cold rain, so still I don’t have to blog, but I saw something yesterday that I just have to mention.

While in Bed, Bath & Beyond picking out a new front door mat to use our 20% off coupon on, I spotted among the Snuggies and other gifts that you might give to a distant relative (one you don’t see too often, so you won’t have to worry about repercussions) an item that is just another small step of humanity towards its date with destiny and life aboard the Starliner Axiom – a motorized Lazy Susan for your dining room table.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 501

Photo Book

I’ve started the South Carolina Post Office photo book. I liked yesterday’s photo collage thing so well I’m going to use it on the cover.

Cover

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 501

Florida Trip

Florida Trip

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 500

101,000 Gator Fans

Pardon My WakeReturned from home Florida today in a marathon 13 hour 607 mile drive, making 8 pit stops along the way. Two for meals, one for a snack, two for gas and 3 just for driver changes. Somewhere south of Orlando the Emperor passed through the 101,000 mile mark. Total mileage for the trip – 1608 miles.

We are always careful about checking for Clemson home football games before heading into the SC upstate, but completely forgot to check for a University of Florida game before planning our route home. We were “forced” off of I-75 near Ocala by the rapidly multiplying Gator fans on their way to the game. Turns out it was for the better though, as we got to retrace some of our route down along some fantastic rural central Florida roads in the opposite direction.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 499

Black Friday

Jolly Mon SongDid the sane thing and avoided any place that had anything to to with shopping today.

We went 1 for 2 in local Palm City geocaches in the morning. There is another that we started after, but we aren’t counting either way – it was 120′ into a swampy area that neither Donna or I could see a non-watery path towards.

In the afternoon we went sailing the St Lucie River around Palm City, Stuart & Port Salerno aboard Jolly Mon Song the 34 foot “yacht” of Sandy and Paul. It was a 3 hour tour with a stop at Finz Waterfront Grille for lunch in the middle.

The evening was spent playing a variation of Oh Hell and watching JJ Abrams reboot of Star Trek in Blueray on the Tomlin’s ginormous flat panel TV.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 497

Happy Thanksgiving From The Front Lines

JeepWhile the turkey was cooking and some of the guests were boating, Donna and I headed into downtown Stuart to do a little Geocaching. There were very few people in most of the places in downtown, so it made it fun not having to look over our shoulders to make sure we weren’t muggled while signing logs. Our total take for the day was 7, we had done 2 earlier that were within walking distance of Sandy’s house and then five more in downtown.

My favorite hide was the one from the picture above, called Road To Victory, mainly because of the hide of the cache itself. The size was listed as a regular, which normally means an ammo can, but those are usually kind of hard to hide in an “urban” environment. So it was nice to find exactly that, an ammo can, that was hidden in plain sight, bolted to the back of a Jeep in front of a little military museum.

Started up, went down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 495

Made It

Lakeside InnWe arrived at our destination in Palm City by lunch time today. A slight mis-turn in the town Okeechobee and two trips to the local Publix put our mileage for Wednesday at 203 miles instead of the 160 Google maps advertises. This brings our total mileage from Aiken to Palm City at 958.

It rained pretty much the whole day so the closest we came to geocaching was a virtual one in Okeechobee, but it was coming down so hard that we did not even get out of the car to answer the questions. I’m not going to count it as a DNF.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 493