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  1. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    We really got chilled today.  Went up all the way to lealt falls and kilt rock (all falls were flowing like crazy from all the rain), but that was about all the wife had in the tank.  Our pants and shoes were still soaked, and that takes it out of you.  Back to the room to dry off and warm up.  Now doing a bit of work, and then a nice dinner.  We're going to try Old Man of Storr tomorrow -- supposed to be a bit drier, although the hike is reportedly muddy after a rain and....we had some RAIN.  Whatever, we're here, we're gonna give it a shot.  Then, on to Lewis and Harris.

    Get warmed up with a wee dram whilst sat next to peat fire...

    My favorite stat about Skye is that they get 20 units of rain annually.   Those units are feet!

    For other's benefit, if there's one thing you should splurge on when hiking in Scotland...  it's rain gear.

    I made sure the wife and I had GorTex everything and waterproof boots.   Also brought a boot dryer.

    Sounds like you're having an amazing visit.

  2. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

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    The fairy pools are not so fairy…the fairies are angry today, like an old man sending back soup at the deli.

    And I’ve now been driving on single track roads enough that I get annoyed at the tourists doing the “passing place” maneuver wrong. Of course, we won’t speak of my first day behind the wheel here.

    It never happened...  just a whiskey induced fever dream 

     

    Also further down from the Ferry Pools there is a nice hike up to the Black Cullins

    https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/skye/coirelagan.shtml

    Also jealous AF, enjoy!

  3. 32 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

    Did anyone here read Trump’s Agenda 47 a month or so ago? It looks like they completely scrapped what they had and have changed to a new platform with 20 points. Gone is the military exams for kids in public school and other insane shit.

    I’m not imagining that it’s changed, right?

    ummmm  Florida already has this... and has for a long long time.   I happened to be really sick the day of the exam...vitamin D deficiency, so I recovered at the beach with my also sick friends.

    Recruiters kept calling me to come in and take the mandatory test, but I just ignored them.

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  4. Progress so far... 

    My only complaints...

    • Not sure I love the long ass forks
    • Wheels and tires heavy AF

     

    But we'll see how she rides. Almost everything here is reused or out of the parts bin except the Wide Narrow chain ring and some new cheapo pedals.

    I have a newish saddle and a longer more traditional stem and flat bar and I'm just trying to see what feels best before cutting the steerer tube and running the cables.  Disks on the hubs have to go too, or I'll use an older lighter set of wheels I have laying around but I think the rear needs a new axle.

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  5. This felt like a regular superhero movie... in a bad way.  Pretty sure this might be the last movie of this genre that I pay to see.

    I think you had to be a big comic book fan to get the most out of it.

     

    One bright spot.. the girl playing the waste land boss was fantastic...

    Spoiler

    except that one scene when they captured her.  That was anticlimactic AF

     

  6. Just now, Brisketexan said:


    Who doesn’t dig on Turkish? The pide was great. And we weren’t looking for anything fancy tonight. Nice thing about London is that you can get pretty much anything in the world. We’ll do a nice lunch tomorrow, and a Sunday roast on Sunday. We’ll be in Scotland as well, later on.

    Turkish is the greasy unloved bastard child of Greek and Persian food... pretty much the worst of both words...  Overcooked meat under grease

    Now Scottish... been making my own Rumbledethumps but using collards instead of cabbage... Had some this morning with Bacon & Eggs.

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