If you ask your significant other if you can attend and outdoor show on Valentines Day and she says yes, go buy a ring and a lottery ticket. Maria and I headed up to Harrisburg, PA early Saturday morning to check out the show and see some friends we knew would be there. This was definitely one of our more unorthodox Valentines Day celebrations, but I wasn't about to … [Read more...]
UORTC – 4WD-202 Class Part 1
When Scott Fields offered us the opportunity to head down to the Uwharrie Off-Road Training Center (UORTC) to attend their 4WD-202 Class, we cleared our calendars and headed south to beautiful Uwharrie, North Carolina. UORTC's 4WD-202 is an in-depth and hands-on class that further expands on all of the lessons taught in their introductory 4WD-101 class. They cover … [Read more...]
Hiking Sugarloaf Mountain
For 2015 my fiance and I decided that we wanted to spend more time exploring local areas around Washington, DC, and the only way to really hit the dirt in the area is to put on some hiking boots. We've passed Sugarloaf Mountain dozens of times while on our way up and down interstate 270, and we can even see it from the pool deck of our condominium building on a clear day. It … [Read more...]
Scenes from King of the Hammers 2015
This year's King of the Hammers race was the longest on record (3 laps totalling 214 miles) and arguably the toughest ever - it was something else to experience the spectacle in person. There is nothing quite like 700HP+ Ultra4 cars, double locked and with suspension travel for days screaming through the desert then rocketing into technical sections where they smash and … [Read more...]
KOH 2015 – The Experience
I'm back on the East Coast from attending King of the Hammers, and I think my brain is still attempting to process the whole entirety of what went down. Since I'm a little jet-lagged and still hurting from the junk food and cheap beer consumed - consider this the preamble to some more comprehensive (and photo-heavy!) recaps from several days spent in and around Hammertown in … [Read more...]
