flawless plan ...

so digger and his lovely wife portage are packing up the jeep and moving to bc.   wanting to get together before they left, the captain came up with a 'flawless plan' ...

it went kind of like this ...

''Okay flawless plan.

Robbie is picking me (captain) up at 8 and proceeding to local trailhead at Redway parking lot.

I will carry my cell with me 416-555-5555

Swiss, when you get to Diggers, give me a call.

Pick up Digger and proceed to Redway trailhead. Digger will know the way.

PH (robbie) and I upon receiving your call, will head back to trailhead. We will give Digger our co-ordinates and direction of travel.

Digger will know the way.

Following run we can proceed to local establishment, for liquid refreshment and burgers.

I cannot see anything going wrong.''

and of course, because this is way south of 7, i had to be picked up!  homey borrowed the wife's 'bug' and we were soon on our way to the big smoke!

as per the plan, we pulled into digger's driveway at 9:29:55 - a pylon rarity - we were actually early!  now we DID remember to pick up digger, but we forgot to call the captain ...

 we were the first to arrive at the loblaw's parking lot, followed by pointer (with two crazy dogs - sidney and crosby) and crumbs (a pylon i had never met).    then moooonie arrived - honking his horn, flipping us the bird and almost running us over.   he then proceeded to sprawl out on the ground and show us some bizarre stretch that looked very painful!   we eventually made our way to the trailhead, but still hadn't called the captain ...

 nice belly digger ...

and if you're at all offended by nudity, please skip this next picture.  moooonie was in fine form as usual...

 oh ya!  we finally did meet up with robbie and the captain - despite forgetting to call him!

it was a beautiful day in the don - great great place to run!

 you can ALMOST forget you're in the city ...

LOVE the graffiti ...

afterwards we went to shoeless for burgers and sweet potato fries.  even cy showed up with his new little guy jasper!  as usual, there were lots of stories told and a few insults handed out!

and so digger, all the best in your big adventure.  we've shared a ton of laughs and i will always remember the first time we ran together and you got me lost.  thanks to you, i got the nickname dora!  road trips which give me so many hilarious memories - fred sanford impressions, the 'almost' trip to the grand canyon, the cooler(s), forgetting to lock the car in moab, sneaking up behind me at vulture bait after you'd got lost for the 3rd time - these are just a few!
      

take care my little beer drinking pylon - i will miss you!

love dora ...