Today's leg of the journey was from Penn Yan, NY to Dubois, PA. (which we discovered is actually pronounced "doo-boyz" by the residents)

I got a bit of a slow start this morning, resulting in me fiddlefucking with strapping all my luggage to the Sportster for over 40 minutes while atomicbiker and egcrider stood around, sweating in their leathers and waiting to ( Read more... )

I'm writing this at a Best Western in Penn Yan, NY, as the love of my life, atomicbiker snores beside me. We're on our way to OTR, the long-weekend party with an overall theme of caving. He does count as an Official caver, too, for the record, on account of a trip I dragged him out to a few weeks ago into Moira Cave, north of Belleville. Despite his loud ( Read more... )

A storm rolled in, and dumped simply BUCKETS of rain on everyone. I hung out under the pavilion-sized roof shelter of the Central New Jersey Grotto and watched at surroundig camps poked sticks at the roofs of their shelters to dump the gallons of water off them. Other CNJG members said, "Hey! Let's go for dinner!" so we all piled into one fellow's ( Read more... )

Just past: OTR. It was great this year. ash57005 and I departed for the trip early enough, each way, that we could relax and enjoy the trip, and still arrive at our destination before we got tooo tired. This year we also had a screen gazebo, and parked our site in the shade of a treeline (putting up with angled ground for the privilege). My costume for ( Read more... )

The radio here in the office has been playing all my favorites - real ( Read more... )

Things FreeFloat Did At OTR
For those who haven't already heard, Old Timer's Reunion otherwise known as OTR, is a cavers-only camping weekend held at a private campground somewhere in the West Virginia interior. It's a gathering of some 2000 cavers who all meet up over Labor Day Weekend to socialize, drink a bit of beer (if you're legal age of ( Read more... )