Helluva good weekend, to use technical terms. Yesterday YFE managed to get up in a biplane for the first time, a birthday present from Bride of Morganstein; had an absolute ball, particularly the aerobatics. First time I’ve done them since, oh, an 1V1 ACM hop over Mobile Bay in a TA-4J back in late…

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Another entry in the “If you show up with these on your car, you’ll lose your Triumph card” category (and if you must, www.tansywheels.com).

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Just got back from an 11-hour, out-and-back to Kansas City to check out a TR8…and as anyone in the Midwest knows, the rain has now continued for three days, with major thunderstorms and downpours particularly evident today. Which resulted in one of those meaning of life moments… Outside of Columbia, MO, this morning, westbound, visibility…

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Temperatures plummeting, leaves turning (and, if my front yard is any indication, also plummeting), like I said, hope every TR owner’s heater works!  Out on patrol briefly today, the one standout was a Ford Mustang Boss 302 in proper Schoolbus Yellow, the same color used by the Bud Moore team in the ’70 TransAm series. …

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Which is MilSpeak for “Return to Base;” after 2.5 weeks manning a watch in Annapolis, I’m heading back to St Louis later this afternoon. I won’t add an “MMC” (“Mission Complete”) following my return home tonight as I fully expect I’ll be coming back here within a week or two. In the meantime, spied a…

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About halfway through the current extended tour in the vicinity of the Chesapeake and I fell in with one of the local Triumph clubs, the Capital Triumph Register. They extended an invitation to participate in a Saturday afternoon backyard BBQ at the home of a member down by La Plata, on the peninsula between the…

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End of the day yesterday, on the drive back to my sister’s place in Bowie from Annapolis, took the back road (MD 214) and holy cow, FINALLY saw an LBC! (trust me, they’re all over, I just hadn’t been in the right place at the right time up ’til now).  Unfortunately, I didn’t have my…

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Shoot, more like on deployment, or at least TDY…this marks the fourth time in four months that I’ve headed east to the Bowie/Annapolis area of Maryland. As per usual, I’m keeping an eye out for LBCs, but in the meantime I’ve seen one Ferrari 308GTB (VERY distinctive sound under full throttle) and the attached. Definitely…

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Okay, okay, as we’re going to find out tomorrow (Tues 09 Sept), summer isn’t quite over; we will get a return of warmer temperatures and elevated humidity, followed by yr std big storms (Tues-Wed)…and then another dump of the local temp. Think I saw a low of 48 (gasp!) forecast for Thursday night by the…

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ETD for tomorrow’s return drive to St Louis is oh-dark-thirty, thus it’s time to present the award for the most entertaining vehicle of this two-week deployment to the Old Line State. Full disclosure: due to the circumstances, yr fthfl ed didn’t get out a lot, so the lack of LBC sightings wasn’t surprising. Did see…

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