Travel Bug Fun

First up is Hockeyhick’s and Cache-n-Kerry’s Road-tripping Puck which is a souvenir puck from the Greenville (SC) Grrrowl minor league hockey team. The team has since folded and the TB owners want this puck to be their proxie fan and to “take it to pee-wee games, high school and college games, minor league and pro games, all around the globe!” We feel for the Greenville hockey fans as just last year the team over in Augusta pulled the same folding act. Coincidentally the Growl and the Augusta Lynx played against each other frequently because they were in the very same league. Sunday before last we drove over to Augusta to take a picture of the puck in front of the home of the Augusta Lynx, James Brown Arena.

Second is Simba from Disney’s popular 1994 animated feature film The Lion King. Simba’s goal is to see as many zoos, circus’ and habitats as he can before returning home. We found Simba in one of the caches from our big loop on Sunday and when we got home and read the goal, Donna said, “Hey, there is a circus coming to Augusta next weekend.” I checked the interweb and it turns out the circus was in town right then and the last showing was already well underway. We hopped in the car and drove over anyway. Turned out it was perfect timing. The crowd was almost entirely gone and the roustabouts were just starting to strike the big top. Walked in, Donna held Simba in her hand, I snapped the photo and we left. We might swing by the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia this weekend for another photo op.