Prepping for 10 days in Europe

Courtney, Evandra and I are about to set out on a journey through a few select locations in Europe that is reminiscent of trips my mom took my brother and myself on 25 years ago.

We start in Paris – …

Hiking Mad River Dam with Fox and Ivan

Today’s hike was only about an hour. Fortunately, the sun was out but it was quite windy at the crest of the dam. We tried a trail that wrapped around the South bank of the Mad River Reservoir which offered …

Hiking the Tunxis Trail with Fox

The Tunxis Trail is a nice hike in CT. It doesn’t loop but offers some interesting features and is very lightly trafficked. I believe I’ve only crossed paths with another person once in the past year. I started hiking it …

Halloween 2013

Thanks to Courtney Kane for the camera work on this one. I believe she filmed it on a flip-phone.

A Hike with Marc

It was a bit chilly and certainly mushy in parts on account of the bizarre snowfall the day before, but the hike in the Winsted Woods, which has entrances at Gilbert High and traces along old route 8 North, was …

First Ride of 2012

We rode, we drank, we all like cannolis without chocolate chips – we are the Bulgarian Racing Team.…

JATO 3.3 at Mulch Mountains

I found the best place to run the JATO – amidst mountain of mulch, right near the DMV in Winsted! Mulch is great for many reasons. First, it’s got plenty of little bumps and humps to make driving fun and …

JATO 3.3 Ready to Rock

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of picking up a like-new Traxxas JATO 3.3. My JATO had somehow gotten rusted over the winter in my barn. Lesson learned. However, the aluminum hop-up parts I’d bought were still almost mint. They needed …

Head-butt a tree

Go ahead and give it a shot.Β  You will not win.Β  Not even if you take a running start up to the thing.Β  Not even if you take a running start up to the tree on a downhill.Β  Not even …