Saturday morning Breva ride

This morning I met up with my friends Bob (HD Heritage Softail) and Alan (Ducati Monster S4RS) for a motorcycle ride. Bob has lived in Florida most of his life and he has obviously spent some of that time riding the roads of central Florida as he took us on a great route with some really nice roads and scenery.

We saw a place called Sugarloaf Mountain. It's not a mountain nor does it resemble a loaf made of sugar. But that's what it is called for some reason. Sugarloaf Mountain is the highest point in the Florida peninsula at 312 feet (95 meters) above sea level. It overlooks Lake Apopka, the second largest lake in Florida. This is one of the few areas in Florida I have been to which has some decent hills/elevation changes.

Our destination was a great country bakery called Yalaha Bakery. We stopped there for a coffee and danish. There was a good sized crowd there, including members of some sort of Corvette club.

After breakfast we rode a while longer and then headed off in our own directions toward home. I then took a ride north to Ormond Beach to visit the Moto Guzzi dealer there. They have a swell selection of new Moto Guzzis in stock.

All in all a fun day of riding :=)

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Grand Funk Railroad Tune O' the Day - Feelin Alright

Today's Grand Funk tune is "Feelin' Alright", a cover of the tune from the English band Traffic.

Grand Funk's version was released on the "Survival" album in 1971. I think the Grand Funk version is great. Crank it up, give it a listen and see what you think....

Grand Funk Railroad Tune O' the Day

Today's Grand Funk tune is "To Get Back In" from the 1974 Shinin' On album.

This album was unique in that it was done in 3-D and contained a set of 3-D glasses built into the front of the album (the glasses popped out so you could view the album cover and inside in 3-D).

This was a very good selling album for Grand Funk, reaching #5 on the charts and GOLD (greater than 500,000 sales) record status.

Sit back and enjoy yet another great Mark Farner-penned tune from Grand Funk Railroad.

Incredible NASCAR finish

Check out the video of this amazing NASCAR finish to the Coke Zero 400 on July 4th.

Back from Buckeye land

I am back from my trip to Ohio to visit my old college pal Paul and his family. The flights there and back were pretty much great, as I flew out of Daytona Beach airport to Akron via Charlotte, NC. What a treat to not have to deal with the size and traffic of Orlando airport.

My pal Paul and I went to an LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf) event in Toledo, Ohio Friday morning. I am not an avid follower of women's golf like Paul is but it was a great time. Excellent players, good crowds and a beautiful course. We followed two different threesomes through the 18 hole course, including Morgan Pressel, Michelle Wie and Natalie Gulbis. Great players. I was able to get within a few feet of all of them so I guess I will consider it a brush with greatness :) Unfortunately I have no pics from the event because you are not supposed to take pics on the course.

After the golf we found our hotel, a fairly disgusting Comfort Inn, and changed and headed to downtown Toledo for a AAA baseball game between the Toledo Mudhens (Cleveland Indians farm club) and the Columbus Clippers (Detroit Tigers farm club).

Fifth Third Field where the Mudhens play is a really nice stadium in downtown Toledo. We had great seats and saw a good game.

Saturday we headed back to North Canton to get Paul's son John as he was going to the Cleveland Indians game with us Saturday afternoon. We headed up early in the afternoon and hung around downtown Cleveland near the lakefront (Lake Erie) for a while awaiting the 4:00 game.

Around 3:30 we started walking toward the stadium but noticed very little traffic or people for the game. I know the Indians stink but this is ridiculous. We got to the stadium and found it was empty. Turns out they had changed the game time to start a little after 7:00 Saturday night. Paul said he never got an email informing him of the change in start time. Yeah, sure Paul.

Anyway, we decided just to have Paul exchange the tickets for a future game and he will be taking his boys John and Luke to see the Indians later in July. We pretty much just headed back to Paul's place after a couple little stops and called it a day.

'Twas a great time in Ohio seeing my old pal and his family.

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Off to the Buckeye State

Soon I will be heading off to Ohio to visit my old college pal Paul Miller and his family in the Akron area.

Paul is a golfer and a fan of golf in general so on Friday we are going to go watch an LPGA golf event in Toledo, Ohio, the Jamie Farr Classic. You prolly remember Jamie Farr as Klinger on MASH.

After watching some of that tourney, we are going to see the Toledo Mudhens minor league baseball team Friday night.

Saturday we are going to head to Cleveland to catch an MLB Cleveland Indians game. Looking forward to seeing a game at Progressive Field(formerly Jacobs Field), in downtown Cleveland.

Grand Funk Railroad Tune O' The Day

Today's Grand Funk tune is Rock N' Roll Soul, released in 1972 on the "Phoenix" album.

Rock N Roll Soul was a Top 40 hit at #29.