Went for a nice drive this morning to go hiking in the Sumter National Forrest on a trail we used to mountain bike on back in the day. We haven’t done the drive in a while and it seemed pleasant, but to be truthful the drive is part of the reason we gave up the mountain biking. The trail we went to today was about 45 minutes from home and is the closest place to drive to for single track riding. The other “local” trails are around 15 more minutes away. The experience went something like this: 10 minutes to load the bikes, 60 minutes to drive to the trail head, 10 minutes to unload the bikes, 60 minutes of riding, 10 minutes to load the bikes, 60 minutes to drive home and 10 more minutes to unload the bikes. It got tiresome. Now with hiking: you drive 60 minutes, walk 140 minutes and drive 60 back. Still work up a good sweat in the woods with a lot less hassle, it only takes a minute to fill the Camel Backs and shrug them on.
Batmobile is 88% complete. The only thing let is to assemble the desk and the items on it and then screw the interior to the body and then the chassis to the body/interior. That’s right, desk, back before the Bat Computer the Caped Crusader used pencil and paper to catch evil villains. Come back tomorrow for a picture.
Purchased Today: Zippo
Money spent since 03/03/03: $222.48
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