Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Bought a Gun at Dicks Sporting Goods

Buying a Gun at Dicks Sporting Goods Store
August 12, 2006
Now just so you know, this is our first gun, and we know some people will be agast that we bought one and others will like the idea, but we figure the reason to have it is for the wild life: whether or not it is people or animals. As we will be living in some remote areas this fall, we figured that it might be a good idea to have one.

So Sasha, in all his widsom, started looking around for the proper gun to have six months ago. As we are not going to use this for markmanship but for protection, we had decided on a shotgun not a rifle or hand gun. A handgun would not work against bears and a rifle you have to be precise, and shoot accurately. With a shotgun, you can fill it with buck shot and shoot. So he got info from the RV.net people (thanks) and then started calling around to Gun Dealers in the Washington DC area first.

He called up Walmart (yes they have guns!), Clark Brothers (family owned gun store in Warrenton), Gander Mountain (sporting store in PA), Bass Pro-Shops, Cabela's (almost all their stores), and Galayns (which is now Dick's Sporting Goods Store.) We ultimately found the shotgun at Dicks - right in the Dulles Center Mall - a shopping mall had the gun, can you believe it? I don't know about you, but the malls in NJ do not sell guns, so this was a new experience for me.

So Anyway, we went in, filled out all of the paperwork (Sasha had called up and explained that we live at one address but get our mail at another address which is a big deal when you get a gun), paid and was escorted out with our gun (it seems, although you can buy a gun in the mall, you can not walk out of the store without the sales person escorting you to the parking lot, I guess it is a liability to have guns in the store s0 this is how they get around that.) We went immediately home and put it away. So that is why Dicks Sporting Goods Store is one of the sponsors, they were good to us, so we are being good back to them.

Monday, August 14, 2006

Testing out a New PC Card & More Pictures of Arizona

Testing out the Sprint PC Card & More Pictures of Arizona!

First a picture from Arizona while we were out in Walnut Creek: This is a picture of the cliff dwellings out there, they just truly amazing! Even looking back - we did go back in May, and it is taking me this long to get the pictures up - seeing that area makes me want to go back.

So anyway, about the sprint card, Sasha and I are going up to NJ and NY to get the Trailer and so we went up this evening. As we were headed to the Fort Henry Tunnel, I was uploading approximately 21 pictures to ImageShack.us with the Sprint PC card. It was going VERY fast (especially since we are used to the T-Mobile card which has dial-up speeds) This card has speeds closer to DSL which is fabulous. So anyway, we were getting closer and closer to the tunnel and I was like oh no, we are going to lose all the work of uploading those 21 files. BUT thankfully, right before the tunnel (and I am talk within a tenth of a mile) ImageShack stated that the pictures had upload, now what do you want to do?

So I decided that I should wait before I do anything on Blogger because I thought for sure, I would lose connection. Well Guess What! That was not the case, I had connection the entire time in the tunnel WOW, Boy I do like sprint out here. We will see if it is as good on non-interstate roads.

Sometimes it is a good Idea to stay on the trail, and other times, not so good. We are stuck in traffic, not too far from the Maryland Susquahanna Bridge and we are in bumper - to bumper traffic. It looks like there is an accident and I asked a trucker and they said that there was a five mile backup from construction. It is kind of funny, but since we are in the SuperDuty, we are almost level with the truckers! So he was able to talk to me at practically the same level. Sasha said, he probably thought I was super cool since I had the laptop, but I said that the trucker probably thought why didn;t she look it up on the web? Quite honestly, I did not even notice until we were slowing down. That is what happens when I write, I just do not pay attention to the stuff around me, The same is true when I read, as my entire family knows.

In a previous post, I had talked about the steps, so here is a picture of them - there are 240 steps going down (as well as up!)

After we had gone up and down all of those steps, we decided we needed to cool off, so we went to slide rock state park, well known for its natural slides of very cold water. Just taking the pictures the water looked cold!

But of course, we had some brave souls try out the water - not to slide, but to dip their feet in. Its no wonder that they are both Pisces.

This picture was too see further down the park area, They even have a diving area, as that part is very deep.

A picture of us after the cold water.

We managed to make it out of the bumper-to bumper traffic after 1.5 hours to go ~ 5 miles. We are going to stop at Flying J, our favorite gas station and fill up and I think I am going to stop working on the computer, my hands are getting tired, I guess it has been awhile since I have used this system to write and my arms and hands are not used to it.

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