Hunq on first camping trip...

[Robert F. Harrison]

I'm on my first camping trip with my Hunq. Had about a 25 mile ride into the wind to get to Bellows AFB campgrounds. It was a great ride, bike handled beautifully even with all the gear...tent, pad, bag, change of clothes, so on and so forth.

http://flickr.com/photos/mgps-bob/8104171170/

Quick stop at Makapuu lookout.

Aloha,

Bob

[Andy Smitty Schmidt]

have fun out there. 

[Manuel Acosta]

Hope you didn't forget the spam for breakfast! Have fun

[Robert F. Harrison]

Of course not...actually did have spam...it's not camping in Hawaii without spam.

On Oct 19, 2012 4:52 PM, "Manuel Acosta" <manueljo...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hope you didn't forget the spam for breakfast! Have fun

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[PATRICK MOORE]

They sell more Spam at one store on or near the Navajo rez, I hear,
than in any other place in the universe.

The Vikings also liked it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

It's perverse, but I have a slight and definitely louche craving for a
meal of Spam and Vienna sausages.

White trash roll: section of Wonderbread wrapped around chunk of Spam
on cheap, bulk boloney slice speared together with toothpick
ornamented with canned pineapple chunk and all sealed together with a
large dollop of bulk mayo.

Patrick Moore, who, to redeem this thread by a thread, asks to see
more photos of the camp-gear-loaded Hunq.

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[Steve Palincsar]

On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 15:01 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> They sell more Spam at one store on or near the Navajo rez, I hear,
> than in any other place in the universe.

Including Hawaii? Somehow, I don't think so.

[PATRICK MOORE]

Steve, Steve, Steve: living in your culturally isolated NoVA region,
you are desperately isolated from the greater cultural trends across
this great nation. Believe me -- believe, believe! -- Spam is the
great White Man's Food (primal-y correct!) that, along with 10 lb
muslin bags of Bleached, Enriched Flour, 1 gal plastic pails of lard,
and wholesale pallet lots of Hostess Twinkies/Li'l Debbie Cakes, and
generic, fructose-flavored colas, has dropp't, as it were, like an
Ambrosial Dew from the white man's table to grace, aid, abet,
encourage, expand, increase, supplement, and gild the poor Native's
diet. (Whew!)

[This just in: Wiki says: "The residents of the state of Hawaii
consume the most Spam per capita in the United States." But then, they
haven't visited the Navajo Nation.
https://plus.google.com/116787299153135854991/posts/ZaqmYp4MvhP]

[Steve Palincsar]

On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 15:30 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> Steve, Steve, Steve: living in your culturally isolated NoVA region,
> you are desperately isolated from the greater cultural trends across
> this great nation.

You think maybe I am unaware of Spam? Ha! I was in the Army, my
friend. You learn to eat all sorts of strange and amazing things in the
Army, Spam among them.

>
> [This just in: Wiki says: "The residents of the state of Hawaii
> consume the most Spam per capita in the United States." But then, they
> haven't visited the Navajo Nation.
> https://plus.google.com/116787299153135854991/posts/ZaqmYp4MvhP]

There's a lot more Hawaiians than there are Navajo, I think, and Spam is
the official Hawaiian State Meat, isn't it? (Replaced Long Pig, I
thought I read somewhere...?)

[Marc Schwartz]

I hear in Hawaii they cook it entire with an apple in its mouth
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[jimD]

I've learned to enjoy Spam through riding my bike.
No kidding.
The Oregon Bike Ride (definitely not to be confused with CycleOregon) serves Spam at their sumptuous rest stops.
Spam is great in those circumstances.
I love it on those occasions, otherwise it never touches my lips or enters
our house.
Chow,
JimD

[dougP]

That's getting with it & getting out on tour as soon as possible. It
wasn't that long ago we watched the smiling UPS driver deliver the
box. Good on you for not wasting any time.

dougP

[Montclair BobbyB]

This conversation compels me to recite my favorite SPAM haiku: http://www.kbeamer.com/spam_haiku.html

[jimD]

Excellent!

      😋

made me hungry, need fried rice with Spam,

JimD

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[Dave]

Thanks for the link.  I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time!

I keep a can of Spam on my desk as a conversation starter.  People ask me all the time why it's there; I say, "That's why".

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[Robert F. Harrison]

I guess we'll call it Tour de Waimanalo and it was certainly more a tour than the BORAF in that I went, I rode around, and I rode back, camping while there and never raced (well running downhill with a loaded bike can be kind of fun).

I left on Friday morning and after 25 miles into the wind, replete with stops, photo-ops, and a wonderful time on my new Hunq I arrived. I was camping with a group of folks who aren't bikey in any way and they were all amazed I'd ride 25 miles for anything. Several offered to give me rides back on Sunday so I wouldn't have to ride back. 

On Saturday I took a 12.5 mile ride around the back of Waimanalo just to keep my legs happy, my brain happy. My Hunq, without all the luggage, though still sporting her Wald up front, attracted a few stares. I like to think at least one of the folks blasting past me considered that perhaps I was having a great time not worrying about much of anything.

Today I packed up fairly early so that I didn't have to ride home in the heat of the day, though I still caught enough. The ride back was much easier than the ride out because although it was still windy I had it at my back from time to time.

I was very impressed how easy it was to climb up to Makapuu lookout from Sea Life Park now that the shoulder is marginally wider and I have a bike that both had easy to use gearing and track really, really well. I've done it on a variety of bikes including my Quickbeam (which tracks well but doesn't go as low).

The camping bit itself was really quite nice. We were actually on Bellows AFB so we had a PX we could use, we'd all chipped in for dinner, and lots of folks brought grills and such so I didn't need my Trangia and could buy coffee in the morning. I'd be the first to admit it was just barely camping. I mean I did sleep in a tent and all, but the rest was not even close to roughing it. :-)

On the ride back I treated myself to something else we love in Hawaii besides SPAM. Shave ice. And not that roughly shaved stuff I often find when I travel, but the highly shaved variety that holds the syrup and on a hot day is so cold it's challenge to avoid a cold-ache with ever bite. Yummm.

Shave Ice

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8195/8111332956_052e3086e7_z.jpg

And here's a variety of unedited shots from the rest of the trip. I'd take more but it's a regular ride and I'm likely to see a lot of again next weekend even. :-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgps-bob/sets/72157631824788937/

As for the bike, it was great, both loaded and unloaded. While I wouldn't say that 25 miles is a particularly long ride, it's long enough loaded and into the wind and I was comfy the whole way, not achy anything, no hot spots, just riding.

I can't wait to do it again (though I'll have to pick another campsite as I can't get on base without the sponsor who set this one up). You'd think we'd have a lot more spots to camp but it is fairly limited and tough to get a permit at times. 

Anyway, it was a blast...I'm glad the Hunq made it here in time for the journey!

Aloha, Bob

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[Steve Palincsar]

On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 20:37 -0700, Dave wrote:
> Thanks for the link. I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time!

Me too. Simply marvelous!

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