Good day to you faithful reader! I have continued my streak by staying as buys as a beaver in a pine tree grove! I have been hard at work creating the Challenge pages and so far I have completed the Giza Challenge, the Great Wall Challenge and am working on the Shire Challenge! Along with that I spent last weekend hiking with my scout troop at the D-Bar-A Scout Ranch in Metamora, MI. As for the Tigers, well I got to spend yesterday with my little brother at Comerica Park, in Detroit, MI and watch the Tigers play against the Pittsburgh Pirates!
We arrived at the scout ranch on Friday evening and setup camp. No cabins for us, all tents (4) of which contained 7 people. 2 adults and 5 scouts total. Not a great turnout but still good size. We stepped off at 9:30a on Saturday morning and hiked for the next 5 hours, stopping occasionally for water breaks and lunch. All total we hiked 7.77 miles and climbed 50 flights of stairs (virtually according to my watch)! It was a good time and I felt great afterwards! I was waiting on the scouts for a change! Hot damn! This walking and weight loss is pretty cool!
The websites have been growing at a pretty fast pace and with me completing more and more Virtual Challenges I predict there will be even more! I am really enjoying the medals and am feeling really rewarded when I complete a race! The postcards are a treat as well! I love documenting my “travels” and am excited for the future!
The Tiger game was a blast too! It seems that every time by brother and I go downtown we get an added extra spectacle to the baseball game! 3 years ago when we went down, I-94 was shutdown because someone was spotted on a pedestrian overpass waving a handgun about, so we were shunted off the freeway and into the extremely dangerous neighborhoods in my big red pickup truck! The following year was a high water mark. Not only did we see a foul ball break the glass barrier in the upper deck, and 2 wannabe YouTube stars try to get on the field, but we got to see a bum fight outside the park after the game, on the way to the truck! This year was no different. We left the game at the top of the 8th inning and on our drive home, we encountered some traffic. We spotted smoke ahead coming from the west bound lanes, we were traveling east bound. “Car fire?” asked my brother. “Well, it’s Detroit, so yeah, car fire.” I answered. Sure enough as we rounded the bend we spotted a Buick sedan with fire spouting from under the hood and into the sky! It was spectacular! Can’t wait for next year!
What a week so far! TTFN!