Saturday definitely did not go the way I had planned. I was going to take my son to a Tolkien-themed event in Asheville, but he came down sick and wasn't fit to travel.
I had planned (and scheduled) to drop off my bike to be serviced at the Asheville Harley dealer -- the one that became an Air America-style ad hoc airfield during the hurricane relief -- so I went ahead and took the bike over even without him to pick me up and go on to the other thing. Turned out they were having their Spring Bash the same day, so I ended up sticking around for it.
Good turnout for 9 AM. Kept getting bigger all day.
I like the brass handlebars on this one.
"Crosscut Groove," a local blues band, played live all day.
"Snitches get Stitches" is a great t-shirt.
North Carolina-style Pulled Pork sandwiches: $5 flat, cash.
Unfortunately I turned out to need the ride home because the bike had a frozen piston in the rear brake caliper, so they had to order a new one (or part it out and fix it, but they charge $145/hour for shop labor, so it was cheaper just to have them get a part). I couldn't ride it home since they'd disabled the brakes (which had been working fine as far as I could tell before), so I had to leave it there until they could get the part. I stayed overnight at a local motel and then my wife came to get me today. She wanted to go to the arboretum.
I think she said this was some kind of orchid.
Plants are pretty boring, but they did have a model railroad that was pretty cool.
View from above.
So kind of a sideways weekend. Not a terrible party, though.
2 comments:
As it happens, my wife, daughter, S-I-L and 5 grandchilluns drove through Asheville on Saturday while returning to MKE. Truly sorry that they did not meet you!
I'm sorry as well. I could have bought them all barbecue sandwiches.
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