Long time since last post to this blog and had a hard time finding my way back to here.
Since I post almost daily somewhere else this bog has fallen by the wayside.
Now Google+ seems to be another one stop shopping site for blogs and I wish I could just merge this one into it.
Life should be so simple!
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Where Have I Been for over a Year?
Man oh man seems like with all the other places I have posted, liked and shared this blog fell off the cliff. I spend lots of time over here www.alfabb.com helping fellow Alfisti maintain their Alfa Romeo 164 models. Then, I started sharing my life and welcome to it on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/
Monday, April 22, 2013
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The Road to Nowhere
Have you ever been on road trip without a road map? And furthermore have you literally been the back seat rider (not backseat driver)? Well, I was this past Friday on a preplanned Garmin GPS controlled drive.
It was a trip to "wild and wonderful" West by God Virginia to Cass Scenic Railroad State Park. http://www.cassrailroad.com/
However, getting there from Front Royal, VA turned out to be the real adventure. Looks pretty simple on the map http://www.cassrailroad.com/map.html
I ask the driver if we had a WV paper map in the car and the response was no but Garmin route had been check against a map before leaving left home. In hindsight I can now say without reservation that did not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling as soon as we left the paved highway into the wild and wonderful wilderness of a crush and run road.
My first response under my breath was WTF and then I voiced my concern are you sure?
The response was, "Garmin sez this is the way".
Turns out Garmin must have recalculated when we zigged back northwest on US-250 and WV-92 instead of zagging southwest on WV-92 and WV-28 and then forgot to tell us to make a U-turn in Bartow, WV.
Anyhow it put us on unpaved Forest Rd 235 and I remember us going by the Cheat Mountain Club. http://www.cheatmountainclub.com/
The Garmin took us by this lodge on our adventure. Looks like a great place to have a family reunion but pricey! We should have checked it out.
http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1115
We left Front Royal at 7 a.m. with plans to ride the 11 a.m. train. We got to Cass, WV in time to see the 1 p.m. train leaving for Whittaker station. so we ended up riding the 3 p.m. train. We had plenty of time for our picnic lunch while waiting on the next train.
Good time was had by all and there was much laughter over this mis-adventure that turned out fine in the end.
I am however, still working on my "Let go let God" routine. Not quite there yet.
On the way back we drove by Radio Telescope in Green Bank, WV https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Tis the Season again and still and I must remember that
I really feel off the blogger's wagon last year as far as this blog site goes. But I really have gotten carried away posting away here: www.alfabb.com hopefully with some helpful advise.
Just read this article in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greggfairbrothers/2011/12/17/this-is-the-season-3/ While not in business I find my monkey wrench advise I share about Alfa Romeo wrenching sometimes takes over my life.
Just read this article in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greggfairbrothers/2011/12/17/this-is-the-season-3/ While not in business I find my monkey wrench advise I share about Alfa Romeo wrenching sometimes takes over my life.
Front Royal Road Trip and Winery Report
Drove up the Front Royal, VA Friday morning to install two sinks and a elder friendly high rise twolet in my Father in Law's house.
After a full day doing sink installs we had steak dinner at Joe's Steak House with her dad. It was a super meal
Today after finishing the installs, Mary Lee and I took a Winery Recon Ride this afternoon. Headed east on Route 55 out of Front Royal.
Lots of winerys in VA and we drove by a bunch today and chose two to visit. First one was Barell Oak Winery (BOW) a dog friendly place. They have a Bow and a Wow tasting of 10 wines. I chose the Bow tasting and tried 6 of the 10 and chose to take home a bottle of BOWHaus White 2010. Their Chocolate Lab dessert wine was super, too.
Next we went to MiracleValley Vineyard and tried 7 and bought 3 - Cobbler Mountain White, a 2008 Merlot and Sweet Michelle.
We finished off the day with dinner date to Casteriana's Italian Restaurant in Front Royal. I had a superb Shrimp Primavera with fresh veggies in white wine sauce. ML had Tortellini Michelangelo with chicken and ham in a sherri cream sause.
Tomorrow home again to VB.
Friday, December 30, 2011
New Book on Blue Angels
Click here: A Unique History - Phantoms and Angels: Blue Angels F-4 Phantom Teams
http://www.phantomsandangels.com/a-unique-history.html
Hi Guys,
Noel Rodriguez the author sent me my signed copy the other day. He did leave a T out of my name on the acknowledgements page but did get it right further on in the book. It was a lot of fun interviewing and emailing with him for the project.
http://www.phantomsandangels.com/a-unique-history.html
Hi Guys,
Noel Rodriguez the author sent me my signed copy the other day. He did leave a T out of my name on the acknowledgements page but did get it right further on in the book. It was a lot of fun interviewing and emailing with him for the project.
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