Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Apr 30, 2007

Sunday afternoon

Filed in BX Convention 2007

Lunchtime came around, a scheduled two hours to go somewhere and do something. So, I hooked up with Molyneux, Netstation, and Skyring and we headed downtown to the market area to a nice microbrewery with giant vats of beer bubbling away behind glass, and wooden staircases stretching up into the rafters.

They were a tad slow to seat us and I was grumbling about it and got overheard, thus forever blotting my copybook in that establishment. I still feel a bit bad about that, actually.

The food was good, the company was great. I hadn't had much chance to sit down and actually chat with Netstation and Molyneux and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. I instructed Skyring in the gentle art of rib eating, while we ribbed Molyneux because she had sore ribs herself. Molyneux and Netstation were kind of tired so they headed back to the hotel, so Skyring and I went off in search of fountains for water releasing.

There was a nice fountain with squirty jets that you could (but weren’t supposed to) stopper with your hand, sprinkling anyone who happened to be cooling off there. It was a warm day, blue skies, and several people were. I watched as Skyring did his signature water release, a book in a well sealed plastic bag, floating off. Then we went to the waterfront and the pier, and wandered around there, and by the time we got back, the bag had been removed from the fountain, so Skyring put it back again. ;-)

Taking advantage of a bit of shade from the trees, we wandered up the riverfront, and split an Italian ice which nearest as I could tell is a slushie–crushed ice with bright cherry flavoring. Yum. Found another fountain shaped like a pineapple, and released another book in it. So, Skyring was out of bags and had fulfilled his urge to dunk books in bodies of water.

It was a pleasant, peaceful change of pace, but I was tired and short on words, thinking capacity, and energy. We wandered up a bit further then got a local hotel to call us a cab.

Yup: good friends, good food, good cherry flavored icy things, and good humor.

Goody.