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Author’s Note: Owing to the difficulty I have in uploading multiple images to Ricochet, this meet up report will be in two or three parts.
I’m confused. I didn’t arrive until Thursday and TG, Rudert and I were all on the same flight from SLC).
Nice post, though!
Vectorman and the radio…what a great coincidence!
Sorry I couldn’t make it but am glad to see pictures of the Ricochetti.
Very cool, RushBabe.
Oh, geez, MLH, Senior Moment! There were so many people coming and going, I lost track, shame on me! I’ll do updates and Part Two this evening.
It was a good vacation, but yes, we certainly missed out on some of the visual beauty of the country due to the numerous forest fires and the smoke. But we got to spend a lot of time hanging out with other Ricochetti at Huckleberry Hideout (my name for the vacation house) and that was delightful!
Vectorman told us about developing the radio while at Motorola and was hoping they would have one on display there. He said they actually had it rigged wrong in the display, but that was the model he worked on.
Verified.
We did get a little view of the mountains by Sunday as the wind packed some of the smoke off.
Here are a few of my photos from the drive to Bigfork, on the Beartooth Highway. I was able to somewhat diminish the smoke haze with software.
Randy was coming from the opposite direction as we were. I am happy to report that the autumn rains have come, and our air quality has improved. No more smoke in the air here or in Idaho (per two of my suppliers over there).
Slight correction – my first Radio Engineering job was at Motorola, but the radio was designed at King Radio, my second employer.
See, now, if the air had been clear and the weather lovely, could it have been as dramatic a story? “We met in a Montana shrouded with smoke…the mountains were hidden, the sun was an angry, orange disc flaming in the gray…like refugees we huddled together in Huckleberry Haven and…”
Embrace the suck!
(I wish I’d been there, smoke and all!)
I was really hoping that you would come, too.
Same here!
I was too. :(
Maine 2018!
I see @arahant Liked this comment. Does that mean you may come to it? At the Montana Meetup, I think Arahant was the name most mentioned as the Ricochet member that people wanted to meet.
And leave my cave?
We also talked about bringing the party to you. :)
Gonna need a bigger cave.
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So I thought it would be neato-keen if we could plan a Maine Meetup that would coincide by time and place with some local festival, and started a bit of virtual exploration.
http://www.festivals.com is useless for this, they list zero festivals in Maine.
http://www.everfest.com is much better. I’m seeing a number of what look like smallish festivals in Maine in summer 2018.
Abbe Museum Native America Festival in June in Bar Harbor.
Boothbay Harbor Fest in August in Boothbay.
Maine Forestry Museum Logging Festival & Parade in July in Rangeley.
Machias Wild Blueberry Festival in August in Machias.
I need to check if there is a half-marathon associated with any of those, for @mlh. IIRC, at least one of these festivals has a 5K run (which would be a snoozer for MLH, of course).
Should we start another thread, just to toss around ideas about a Maine meetup?
Sure.
This is good news. I fly to Bozeman this Saturday for a visit with friends in Big Sky and then a photo workshop in Jackson. I was hoping the rain/snow would eliminate the smoke and fires!
Will the dispensaries be open by then? If so, I’m in!
Hey, I said I had libertarian sympathies. What did you think I meant?
It’s quite nice here in Bozeman right now, though a bit on the chilly side. Might want to make sure you bring a jacket!
Here are a few pictures. One of us with VC and MM (Julie must have already left at that point?) just before we all headed out. Another of Heather and I on the beach right by where our cabin was. That is what I expected the lake to look like… much different from what we saw the day previously.
There is also the Camden International Film Festival… the Rockland Lobster Festival… the Common Ground Fair (Organic)… the Fiber Frolic…do they still have the Blues Festival? Probably.
This will be so fun!
Also—wrong thread for this, but anyway—I’ll be in Tulsa in April (around the 15th). FYI. Whoo hoooo! Tulsa!