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I’ve uploaded my snapshots from our rainy Memorial Day vacation. I was so put off by the weather that I took very few. Russ and Karen took many more photos showing the misery and I’ll integrate theirs when I get them.

While waiting out the rain this past week my friend Russ turned me on to another of the myriad ways to kill time on the Internet: Kingdom of Loathing, a web-based adventure game. It cleverly parodies the stale, overworked nonsense that is the hallmark of the role-playing game and fantasy fiction genres. The low-rent illustration is cute and if you’ve ever read a pulp fantasy novel, played through Zork (or Wizardry, or Bards Tale…) or rolled the dice in a game of AD&D (but of course, geek, you have…) you’ll recognize the subreferences and, even if you haven’t, you’ll laugh out loud when they are lampooned.

Here we go…

Wonderful weather for a vacation, 50F and rainy.

Had a great day out on the (post) Mother’s Day ride with the Sport Touring Motorcycle Club. Walter laid out a ‘trailie’ alternative to the planned course- some nice twisty back roads, some rough roads that the dualsports eat up and some hard pan that I can’t believe was public road.

Walter has a well-deserved reputation for riding fast and knowing every back road in New Jersey. Barry brought out his KTM520 but peeled off just before the good stuff. Chris rides his KTM950 like a mother, he’s faster on dirt than I pretty much ever go on pavement and Kamil kept up with them on his F650GS (and nearly did a personal environmental impact study). I brought up the rear- I’m slow but happy.

I succeeded in screwing up my GPS track so I only have part of the route ([map here]( http://www.lonsteins.com/gallery/motorcycle/stmc_20050515) ) but it was great fun.