I Think I Understand

[wheatonFJR]

This report definitely is tops on any list. Thanks for letting us tag along. :yahoo:

Man...if I post reports ever again...it will only be with lots of apologies...as you have raised the bar way too high. :clapping:

 

[pinhead]

Thanks for taking us along OM. You've really got an eye for the shots. There is something special about this one. It's not a pretty picture (relative to your others), and I would've never even noticed the photo opportunity if I had been there, but it captures something that is so American (pickup truck, school, old country road, barbed wire, and mowing the lawn in the afternoon sun) that I can actually smell it. I wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure someone else in that neighborhood was grilling hotdogs <sniff> :cap:

 

[Old Michael]

Your night photos has so little noise on it for a point and shoot. I have an S3. What ISO or speed did you set it to?

cardingtr, (how do you pronounce that?), I played around with shutter speed. Since I don't really know what I'm doing, I took the same pic at 5 or 6 different speeds, and used one somewhere in between. I was all over the place with results.

Or you're becoming wise, pilgrim.

This coming from a man who'll have to wear his helmet when he sleeps at CFR.

I'll miss you Mike.

When you kept inviting me into your tent in Morro Bay, I had no idea it was so nice inside.

SacramentoMike put me up to it in Morro Bay. He was waiting inside with a stick of butter.

Hmmmmm... that pics looks familar. :glare:

You can't prove it.

That ol' Ingersal Rand is about as old as ....

...me and you Rob?

The only part of your trip that did not appeal to me was the camping out. I lived in a tent for 9 months in the Dominican Republic back in 1965-66.

Yeah, boomer, I'll be doing less and less of it. Or I need something better between me and the ground. I use a thick ThermaRest, but it's not thick enough I guess.

9 MONTHS! No wonder you're the way you are!

Just gorgeous!

Well,......thanks Shiny. (But don't call me that in front of the men.)

... Next time shoot me a PM. I would have played hookey for a day....

Spyder, now that I know you're as much of a slacker as me, I'll do just that. :lol:

 

[Old Michael]

I feel like I've had a holiday myself.

Springtime is just around the corner. God knows you guys deserve it.

(Sorry about what will happen to the Flames in the playoffs this year.)

It was so good I feel as if I have been there.

Thanks Ric. And thanks for condemning my tire before I left.

I just had to hear it from somebody wiser than me.

Again...many thanks!

I don't even KNOW MadMike barb.

when you pick up your badges in aug, have a look around here; i think i dropped mine...

Come on out Pierre. We'll form a search party.

Very nice report really, especially for an old man ....

Del, .....um,.........thanks? Punk kid.

Take the Bodfish/Caliente RD.

I've been told about it, and will likely check it out next time I'm that way Mojave.

And, what exactly IS Bodfish? Like,.....mermaid?

...But you and your sidekick Tonto were in too much of a hurry that day...

Ooooooh, James Burleigh won't like hearing you use that description for him.

In these parts, we go by Laverne and Shirley.

Man...if I post reports ever again...

Brother Wheatie, all kidding aside, my heart does really go out to you poor bastards who have to put away your bikes for months on end. That's gotta be frustrating as hell. I think I'd sit in my garage and just sob sometimes.

But when spring DOES arrive, it's gotta be a beautiful feeling getting out for the first ride. It should be a holiday or something.

There is something special about this one.

Wow. Thanks for noticing that pinhead. It was a really nice spot, and looking down that road, and seeing the fellow on his John Deere, had me scrambling for my camera. The freshly mown grass, well, you know how good that smells.

Just to my right was where that little horse was grazing on the front lawn of that cottage. I sat there for a good few minutes, until a fellow in a pickup stopped and asked me if I was doing okay.

I was seriously thinking about heading somewhere other than home. Some rides, you just don't want to end.

I know how incredibly fortunate I am, to be able to enjoy doing this stuff.

(And nobody saw the little image of Rog and Deb in another of the shots? )

 

[rogdeb]

Fantastic photo work Mikey :clapping: and real good report. :clapping:

Gawd -- can't remember the last time we biked to Rhyolite (2001 I think), you make us want to do it again. We'll content ourselves as having been there through your pics for a while.

Thanks Buddy

 

[rogdeb]

(And nobody saw the little image of Rog and Deb in another of the shots? )

?? -- no!

 

[Tyler]

(And nobody saw the little image of Rog and Deb in another of the shots? )

You're sneaky... going back and replacing pics with ones that have been, um, enhanced. :lol: