Oct. 29, 2015

Video project time. Students work on their 30 second commercial group project.

Oct. 28, 2015

Fall

Oct. 27, 2015

Me frustrated. The student has been having focus issues with her brand new D750 and I spent hours helping her figure it out (bad camera) normally this takes me a 1/2 hour to get them started….

Oct. 26, 2015

Only photo I took today, an image of the gallery space as I work with our next speaker/exhibit.

Oct. 25, 2015 (afternoon)

In the afternoon, we joined with the Clark’s to try to reach the caves (old tunnels) on the Yadkin River.

The last time, we hit a water release and it flipped me hard, today the water was glass smooth!

The scenery was perfect and we reached the dam with no problems.

There it is……. (what sign?)

And into the caves we paddled. They went back a good ways, got completely dark and no sound expect water falling.

We all made it out and enjoyed the paddle back to the take out! After we loaded the boats, we searched for Mexican food and settled for Pizza Hut before saying goodbyes. I got home at 8:30 – 13 hours after I left in the morning….

Oct. 25, 2015 (the morning)

In the world of cyclocross, today is always special – the world UCI race is Zonhoven -and it’s famous sand run up.

In North Carolina we have a race at Sand Hills Community College and it’s long sand pits. (The only race I stayed for after my race was the juniors, had plans in the afternoon) – My race? Started slow and my legs were dead – too much truck waxing yesterday and on again/off again sleep waiting till 2:30am for Sam to get home (another story)? But I finished strong picking off 5 riders to finish 39thof the 60ish starters. I am still not in race shape, but I had fun!

Oct. 24, 2015

I had several change of plans this weekend, but it meant I had time to do the Fall clean and wax job on the Tacoma. I spent the time thinking about why I enjoy cleaning and waxing, my first job was washing, cleaning and waxing airplanes in high school, then in college I re-conditioned used cars for a dealership for 3 years. All that time cleaning someone else mess made me want to keep my stuff clean. Not bad for 235,000 miles!

Oct. 23, 2015

Today I traded road miles for time in the woods. Every mountain biker in Fall knows how annoying this sound is.

Oct. 22, 2015

Hill repeats with the elephants. That was not fun.

Oct. 21, 2015

Every cyclist’s worst sign…. brand new chip seal road 40 minutes into a ride.