September 2014

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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