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A journal about things I do and places I go. Southern Comfort was originally about my 2010 motorcycle trip through the south, in search of a little Southern-style peace of mind. Over time, the blog evolved into a biker-related journal, with stories about my experiences with people, places, and things! If you want to see what I'm up to, Welcome! Start anywhere, but to ride along on the 2010 Southern Comfort trip, it's best to start at the beginning. Thanks for visiting, and enjoy. Ken, aka Cowboy

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Patience, or the lack of......

Things just ain't happenin' fast enough for me, at least not with biker events. It's still two whole weeks before I roll down to OBX for Bike Week there, and every day just seems to drag by. Damn, I hate to wish my life away, but I sure as hell would like to get at least one event under my belt for 2011.

Funny, but this year I find myself wondering if I'll ride down to OBX or take the bike on a trailer. Last year, there was never an issue about how to get there. I didn't have a damn trailer so I rode....EVERYWHERE! And man, did I rag on the trailer folks about it. If I trailer my bike to OBX, I'll probably have to sneak in after dark and hide the fucking thing somewhere, along with my Hummer.

Thanks to Bev, I got my reservations locked in for East Coast Sturgis..... Woops!....make that East Coast Motorcycle Rally * this year. (Apparently the innkeeper, Dave, couldn't stand Bev's nagging any longer and began signing folks up for 2011.)

So while everyone sleeps on the ground or in campers, me and a few more fortunate folks (or maybe it's us older folks?) will be up the hill at Town Hill B&B sleeping on feather mattresses and hanging out with the Porch People. Yeeeeehaaaaaa. Bev, bless her heart, will be reigning supreme again as Queen of the Porch.

Beyond that, the bike ain't collecting any dust, and I've been having a blast around the DC Metro area. A few of us did a ride down to Southern Maryland last weekend, finding a few cool new places.....new to some of us, anyway... and here's my pitch for Vera's White Sands Beach Club in Lusby, Maryland. Check it out sometime! Biker-friendly!!!

And hey, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that I've been chasing Deb all over town, and so far she's managed to elude me. But I ain't giving up! The season's just beginning! Run Deb, Run!

* About the name change for East Coast Sturgis: After a number of years of legal wrangling, the Sturgis, SD, folks finally (so the story goes) forced a name change to "East Coast Motorcycle Rally". Seems that using "Sturgis" in the name was effectively copyright infringement since the Little Orleans rally competed directly with the Sturgis, DC event, both in timing and theme.

Cowboy

April 7, 2011

!! MISSING SC PHOTOS !!

A few (as of 9/23/2012) of the approximately 139 Southern Comfort posts are still missing pictures due to a change in Blogger that I didn't anticipate. I keep working on them, and I'm getting there, but there were a total of about 60 that lost the pix, and this really turned out to be time consuming. Each frickin' picture had to be found on my hard drive and republished into the post. Alas, some posts were just deleted; I had no idea where the pix were.

I've re-published many of the recent posts, and lately, I started back at the beginning, working forward. One of these days, I'll meet in the middle and be done with it. So yes, there are pictures missing, and no, it's not anything to do with your web browser.

Content / Article Searches

Southern Comfort has outgrown any imaginable proportions, now including posts and articles of all kinds, now dating back a couple years. If you're looking for anything in particular not viewable on the home page, use the search widget in the upper left-hand corner of the Blog in the menu bar. Enter a keyword or phrase and see what comes up.

For example, type in "Pitbull Lift", run the search, and you'll find all posts that mention Pitbull Lift. Then you can use the CTRL F function to run a page search to find where the search keywords appear.

High-Resolution Copies of Photos

I was recently asked if I had high-resolution copies of photos in this blog or from the Snapfish links in the right hand frame of this webpage. Except for a few that I shamelessly stole from others' Facebook pages, I have many of the newer (say mid-2010 forward) pix in hi-res format. The file size is typically 2-3MB, and some are even larger, up to 10mb. Files of that size are great for enlargements, wallpaper, or whatever, and even zoomed, the detail is good.

If you want one, or a bunch, I'll try to help out. Send me an email and a thumbnail of the photo you want. Keep in mind I can only send a few of those large files in a single email, and sending several emails with large attachments might fill up your email box.

Cowboy