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| Brianna's Travel and Tales |
| Okay, okay, so I know I’ve been slacking with the whole blogging thing. I did spend about an hour and a half writing a blog one night, only to have it disappear when I tried to post it. Since then I haven’t had to motivation to write another one. Now that I’m about 6 months behind on blogging, I might as well just start with the race season events that we have been going to. The first outdoor event we do each year is Daytona Bike Week. It has proven to be an interesting event over the past few years, especially from a vending standpoint. Every year that we go there, things change. While I usually like change, these have not always been good changes. From year to year, our location totally changes. Generally, at these type of event, some consistency is good. Vendors and spectators seem to agree on this. Last year they had all the vendors kind of spread out randomly. This year they had them all together, but it seemed like there were only 20 vendors there. This is Bike Week. It just seems like it could be such a bigger, better event than it is anymore. Anyway, it was still a good event for us. We were steady all week long. As always, we met lots of interesting people. I met some guys who taught me the tricks that men use so that their spouses don’t know about large purchases. I’m talking about men that have motorcycles that their wives don’t know about. Scary. Of course, women do the same exact thing. Only I think women do it with clothes and shoes, not vehicles. I also met a man with two girlfriends. I’m sure I meet lots of them and don’t know it, but this guy pretty much laid it all out there for me. That was a first. I also met a fun group of guys from the UK. They were entertaining, full of jokes and laughs. I always enjoy going to Bike Week, not just because the work is fun, but the play is fun too. I get to see lots of racing (although I missed more of it than I would have liked to this year), see lots of crazy people, and enjoy lots of good food. Most memorable food from this trip would have the be the homemade ice cream cake at the Ale House. Yum. I only made it to one night of flat track racing this year, but that was fun as always. Definitely my favorite type of motorcycle racing to watch, and if you have never seen it, you really need to check it out. As opposed to a lot of road racing, you can actually see the entire track from one spot. You get to see so many battles, which is the best part of racing. It is just so exciting to watch. I cannot wait for the races at Springfield. Also at the flat track race this year, we saw a rocket shooting through the sky. That was the first time I’ve seen a rocket in the sky, so I was really, really excited. For those of you who don’t know (which is probably all of you), I am kind of obsessed with the sky, the stars, sunrise, sunset, and now rockets. Another thing that made Bike Week special this year is that a couple of our friends from The Bouncing Souls were there. The Bouncing Souls are a punk band from New Jersey. They are an awesome group of guys with lots of great songs. Brian and Pete from the band were at Bike Week because they were involved in a project with Harley Davidson. They were doing all kinds of fun Bike Week stuff and blogging about it on the Harley site. It was cool to see them there and spend a little bit of time with them. Okay. I thought I was going to get up to date with this blog, but it’s getting late and I need sleep. Considering I slept through my alarm for an hour and twenty minutes this morning (sorry, Rob), I should try going to bed a little earlier tonight. Which means that all you are getting in this blog is the Bike Week report. Hopefully another blog won’t be far behind. Ride safe, everyone. Goodnight. |
| May 08, 2007 "The Outdoors" |
