Just picked up a Waverunner. Tops out close to 50 MPH with two people and gear. I put almost 6 hours on it yesterday alone. Travelling from point to point on the beaches is so much faster when you’re going 15 mph above the speed limit on land and you avoid traffic and redlights. Seriously, a 20 minute drive is less than 10 minutes by sea.
My only complaint is, and this is a given, there really isn’t room to just hang out. With two people I can turn around, use the handlebars as a back rest and conversate with the (ideally hot teenage girl) person on the back, but otherwise you have to find an island to go to (Which, if the person on the back is the person mentioned previously…works out nicely)
Anyway, I paid a little more for this with the trailer and all associated equipment than a Noveske AR15. It kind of put my gun hobby in perspective.
My hobbies actually change gears as the summer approaches. Here in Wyoming, the winters can be… uhhhh… brutal at times. Unless you consider snow removal a hobby, going outside is the last thing on your mind, so as summer approaches, it’s go out side and shoot time.
During the winters though, the wife and I read like it’s going out to style and I dabble in computer games.
Kinda weird actually… to look at my(our) hobbies and realize that the majority of what we do DOES revolve around shooting/camping.
Riding and racing motocross and mountain biking. I usually take about 3 or 4 good mountain bike rides a week ranging from 8-20 miles each. Haven’t been out on the racetrack in a little while though.
If digging post holes is a hobby then remediating some of the stupid things various builders and trades did to the previous owner of my house is a wonderful hobby. Example, the pool deck slopes towards the back door necessitating a 150 foot pipe to drain the water and a 30 foot slot in the concrete to collect the water. Today and the rest of the week I’m doing a termite treatment of my house. Twice I have caught termite applicators cheating on the insecticide dosage so they can sell the liberated bug juice on eBay. Now I do it myself. Normally I and my wife would spend at least a week at spring break on some wilderness trip, usually canoeing. This year I worked around the house trying to catch up on some of the needed work. I would rather hire it out but I have burned so many times I do it myself. Better to do it myself than to pay for it then have to re-do it myself later after discovering the work was not done properly.
If you asked me a month ago I would have said fishing, camping, hunting, working on my landscaping and scouting. My new hobby is seeing how many drugs in need to take to counteract the pain caused by the damage to my spine.
My only other real hobby is cars. Soon to be replacing the springs on my G37. First real mod done to the car. Also going to a local exhaust shop to see about a custom cat back.
The fellow running the crew constructing my pole barn saw I had a couple of 18-20" diameter logs trimmed and prepped for a large ranch gate and took pity on me last week. As he was leaving the jobsite, he mentioned the he’d left the keys in his bobcat with the auger attached and wouldn’t notice if there was a little fuel missing in the morning. When I explained I’d never run one, he took about 10 seconds to point out a couple of controls then walked off yelling over his shoulder, “nothin’ to it, it’s pretty self explanatory.”
Taking a guy whose previous tools of the trade were a spud bar and a post hole digger and turning him loose with that bobcat made for a YouTube worthy moment. It might not have been pretty, but the holes got dug and both the machine and I survived. Had I attempted to dig those 24" wide five foot deep holes by hand I think it would have done me in.
Ain’t it just amazing how much dirt there is in a little bitty hole? And how much dirt there is in a little bitty pile of the stuff too. A little pile of dirt weighs 500 tons and consists of about 3,000,000 shovels full. I have worked on spreading a pile of dirt then come back to it the next day and some son of a bitch came in the night and added more dirt to the pile. Why would someone do that?
Do you live in FLA? This looks strangely familiar.
For the Emperor!
Sons of Guilliman avatar, right?
Always been an Ultramarines fan myself- yeah a little generic, but it’s a long, short story.
Only other things I’m doing is continuing to dabble in playing drums, and doing a LOT of reading.
Oh, ok, and some video games too.
Trying to cut out some other stuff to progress in the gun area. I could kick myself for spending the money I did on certain other hobbies…
Seriously, a 20 minute drive is less than 10 minutes by sea.
