Boy. I'm starting to feel LTA. I don't play guitar or fly fish. I do enjoy good coffee, but only decaf espresso. Caffeine makes me crazy. Fishing only in the backcountry with some ultralight spinning gear. I have to ride or hike there. no pick up truck fishing! Beer, I certainly enjoy hand crafted ales... porters, stouts, IPA's... have not tried home brewing yet. Love music, just can't play it. Latin Jazz especially, but also a big Buffett fan and Reggae. Like climbing mountains, trying do all the 14ers in California. Into archeology, have traveled to many Mayan ruins and want to explore Incas and Aztecan too. Love rocks, BS in Geology but make Rocket engines for a living. Love bike touring...steel bikes, going fast and going slow. Let's see ... oh yea... bikes..3 ridable, 3 in work at the moment and a tandem.
~Mike~ On Apr 27, 8:20 pm, Leslie <leslie.bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be more accurate to say that fly-fishing led me to Rivendell, > actually.... > > Mountain Sports Limited in Bristol VA, a Rivendell dealer, is also an > Orvis fly shop. I was in there talking to Patrick when I noticed the > Rivendells. That's how I got to know Bobby and Steve. > > But, an older hobby of mine, which is how I got to know Patrick and > got into fly-fishing in the first place, is old Series Land > Rovers.... (I've got a '72 and a '60). I took the '72 apart and put > it back together on a new chassis; the '60 is going to be my next > project, as it needs a chassis, too. I can be found on several Rover > boards. > > In what seems like a previous lifetime, I was a grunt in the Marines. > Went into college, became a geologist (or, perhaps more accurately, > discovered I was a geologist, and got a degree or two to show it). > Part of the tie to Land Rovers (was Jeeps previously, transitioned out > of Jeeps to Rovers over a dozen years ago now), is that when you have > a tendency to drag rocks home w/ you, backpacking out w/ them isn't so > much fun, a 4x4 makes that easier. Work on reclaiming coal mines > now. > > Don't know if you know much about geologists, but I think I'm pretty > typical, coffee by day, beer by night. (Part of the reason I need to > bike more, eh?) Not a high-brow coffee guy (not roasting my own > beans, grinding, french press, etc.; I'm happy w/ JFG, or Joe Muggs, > or Starbucks' dark roast; but, I probably go through two pots a > day...? Close to, if not more....). I like Fat Tire, 1554, Dead > Guy, Bass, Guinness, Negro Modelo, ales and porters and stouts, not so > much on the pilsners or hefeweizens. > > Along w/ the infantry-bit, goes camping, hiking, and shooting. I do > short overnight backpacking trips along the AT along the TN/NC line, > the Smokies, Mt Rogers area of Virginia. Help out w/ a lot of > naturalist rallies in the area here. > > I wouldn't say that I play guitar. I have a couple, a shallow-bowl > Ovation and a Fender Stratocaster; I would say I occasionally pull > them out and beat on them, but what little skill I had decades ago > when I was a teen in high-school, has long since faded from disuse. > > I've got a Dagger kayak, an old Blue Hole canoe, but don't use 'em as > much as I should. In addition to the Ram, I have an old Nishiki MTB > from my college days, but plan to replace it w/ a Bombadil. > > Haven't fenced since college. Used to do 3-weapon, but don't know of > any fencers w/in an hour's drive of here. > > Am a Nikon fan. Started into photography by kidnapping my dad's Canon > when I was beginning on annual staff in high-school, then he got me a > Nikon, and I've had several. (N4004, N70, D80... want a D300s, but > keep spending my money before I buy one). Not a great photographer, > use my SE phone as a camera more often than anything else these days, > just because of the convenience, but often have to pull a camera out > at work when documenting things for reports, etc.; 'work' photos > instead of 'art' photos. > > Most of my time, though, is in being dad. Kids and I rode 20 miles > Sunday afternoon here in town.... brisk day, not cool, but windy. > Good day. > > -L > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
