Month: June 2011

One Hundred Twenty One Thousand


Part of the land donated for the Phinizy Swamp was an old dairy farm, these silos are all that remain.

On the drive home from work today the Emperor notched past 121,000 miles. Up until that fateful day in late April when the Emperor got a new brother we had been racking up a thousand miles on him at the pretty regular rate of 1 a month, but this last one took seven weeks. Could there be some behind the scenes palace intrigue brewing? Does the new Prince have it’s eye on taking the throne as the most favored vehicle of the Kingdom of Bogardus? Stay tuned.

Started up, went down, went up, still up.
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Phinizy Swamp

We started out heading for the Augusta Canal Tow Path for a walk and to maybe find a cache or two, but a senior moment on the part of the driver led to ending up at Phinizy Swamp for a long walk and three geocache finds.

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1027

South Carolina Post Offices Redux

No, we haven’t decided to drive to all the South Carolina Post Offices and take their picture with a Sonata in front…

On our way to work Friday morning we stopped off at DD for our breakfast and a free doughnut* on National Doughnut Day. We got up early to account for the time we would waste reading the Wall Street Journal, but for whatever reason there wasn’t a copy there, so we finished eating earlier than anticipated. The only thing to do was to take a the long way to work. We drove what used to be Loop 1 of the Aiken Bicycle Club’s 4 Loop Century backwards and when we passed by Vacluse’s tiny Post Office we noticed that across the street was a big parking area and a patch of woods, causing both of us to think, “That would be a neat place for a cache.”

So late yesterday evening that is just what we did.

Today, instead of an email notification that the cache was published, we got an email from the South Carolina reviewer, “Thank you for your cache page submission. The maps we use show a railroad track within about 120 feet of your cache location. Railroads typically have a right of way that extends 150 feet to either side, and trespassing onto the right of way is a federal offense. Please relocate your cache so that it is not within 150 feet of a railroad track.”

So late this evening that is just what we did.

*with drink purchase

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1026

Aiken Railroad Depot

This morning we did our monthly 1/8 Century Ride (12.5 miles) on the tandem around Aiken to pay our bills. It would be more like a Sixteenth Century if we did it in the shortest way possible, but we added a few miles by looping around to the east and coming into downtown on Park Avenue passing right by the Aiken Railroad Depot.

I Still Got Nothing

But if I don’t post for more than 2 days I get angry letters…

The above picture is from last Sunday’s Georgia geocaching adventure and tonight after the MMC monthly meeting we walked a block over to find a newish cache and drop off the Travel Bug we grabbed near where that picture was taken, all we took from the cache was a plastic coin that looks a little like pirate treasure, which reminded me that last night I watched the middle two thirds of TDPM, commercials and all, on the ABC Family Channel and the day before, Tuesday, my manager told me he had seen the fourth installment, On Stranger Tides, over the weekend and it was the best of all the Pirates of the Caribbean flicks, but I can’t really trust his judgement because he is a New York Yankee fan and because the FRS have lost the last three games in a row after taking over first place in the American League East Division the MFY are now back in first by two games.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Tran?si?tions since 10/24/08: 1025