The Little Man

I'm back out to sea soon - gonna miss this little dude (and his mother - of course!!)

This is going to sound crazy but I've agreed to run the Baja 1000 off-road race with the Cooley Brothers (High School friends). I've had the motorcycle off-road over the weekend getting a little experience in the dirt (or deep sand in my case!) - although we'll be doing this race on a 4 wheel All Terrain Vehicle (ATV).

This was a line item on Paul Cooley's "Bucket List" (things he wanted to do before he 'kicked the bucket'). I couldn't say no.

So, as far as the Navy knows, I'm "support crew handling navigation" (not sure what they would think of this from a Safety point of view!). But hey, they're the same guys who launched me off an aircraft carrier more times than I can remember so - who are they to object?!

More to follow on our preparations - the race is coming up in mid-November. It's actually a pretty big deal - previous competitors include Steve McQueen, James Garner, Parnelli Jones. We can expect to be passed this year by Jesse James (I think he used to be married to some famous actress), Robby Gordon who spends most of his time running left hand circles on the NASCAR circuit, and Jimmy Vassar (Ok, I do respect the Indy Car drivers). I'm not sure if we really fit in that group - but, hey...why not...it's all part of the Adventure!

At work with Les

I had the day off today, but unfortunately Les did not, so we decided it would be a good day for Dylan and I to go and visit Daddy at work. It was really good to finally see where Les works and get to go on a Carrier, it is amazingly big. Dylan really had a good time, it was like a big play ground for him, we all had a great day.

Summer in VA

The little man has been enjoying his summer, a little tennis, splashing in the water and going for rides to Williamsburg. We have been taking Dylan over to the tennis courts when we are in VA, he likes to push around his bikes and even acts as a really good ball boy. However he decided that he would like to give it ago himself. Mind you he hasn't got the grasp of using the racket to hit the ball, he uses it more as a shovel. We recently went to the Water park near us and there were lots of small water slides that we could take Dylan on, he really seemed to enjoy it and so did we. We have also been spending a few of our weekends biking down to old town Williamsburg where we pick up some produce from the farmers market and then have a picnic on the lawns. It has been a really enjoyable summer