Summer Fun Update

Just had to check in with an update and some pics documenting how awesome these past 4 weeks have been. I have to make this relatively quick because I am leaving for Albany today to see my ladyfriend, "M."



First, I am sure you are all wondering how the bike trip went. In a word: awesome. It was, after all, the Tour de Awesome, so I guess it is a fitting word to describe the weekend. You can read all about my drinking exploits here. In terms of biking it was a great success, 40 miles on day 1, camping in William O'Brien State Park, then 80 additional miles to D'bury. About 60 of those 80 miles was on a County Highway F in Wisconsin, and we pace lined for probably 50 of those miles (meaning we all lined up and drafted off the guy in front, who would just pull off the lead and get on in back once he was too tired to pull anymore), which really helped us conserve our energy and had us biking at a pretty good clip. I believe we averaged 17 miles an hour for the whole 120 miles, but were pace-lining at about 20-22 mph. I will also add this, should you ever find yourself needing to draft behind someone on a bike trip, you better hope you are with the Angel Moroni, homey is HUGE (in a good way) and cuts a very large slipstream that you could draft a Mack truck behind.



OK OK OK, here are some obligatory sat night drinking pics that document the end of the Rossi (Rossi is deathly susceptible to snakes and, more accurately, being snaked).
Note the patriotism that cabin life brings out us.
This is me, killing the Rossi under the banner of our great nation (yeah, it's backwards, F-off).
And below we see one sad Beta, realizing the Rossi is no longer. Hey Beta, nice Ocho you pulled off on that pontoon, Carlo never saw that one comin.'
And that is just the biking trip. The weekend before that I was in Duluth, MN, visiting an old friend who is leaving our shores for the island territory of Saipan. My buddy likes fire, likes to dance with fire and throw it around. It's pretty neat...
We also went cliff jumping... Dangerous you say? True. But fun as hell. The first one was a warmup. The second pic is big Elgin Falls. Holy crap that was scary. Took a lot of talking to myself to convince me it was a good idea.

And yesterday I was out on Lake Minnetonka, pontooning and drinking beer and most importantly, celebrating the new apartment we just landed in Seattle!! Whoot whoot! After months of trying in vain, something finally came through for us, thank thee Jebus.



More later kids, but I gotta run for now. Keep on keepin on, we'll be on summer hours through labor day, after which you can probably expect a lot more frequent posting. Probably too frequent.