Chattanooga-Tennessee River Gorge Run, 7.31

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-A three-legged Pomeranian is the head dog on A-Dock. Get in line, even if you are 100 pounds of yellow lab.

-A Donzi burns a lot less fuel at 40 than it does at 80. Cool run to Goose Pond, and we even saw a bald eagle and several osprey on the way back. Eight gallons left in the tank was cutting it a bit close, though.

-Always good to see a new set of faces mixed in with the familiar ones. Nice to meet you Stan aka “Inferno” and Susan. I look forward to more of those offshore racing stories.

-Grizz has hair! And more spunk than ever. He really did ride with a test prop for me in the front seat. Thank you.

-Cam is living evidence that there really are good kids out there.

-The people of A-Dock are some of the nicest, unassuming, well-equipped for a good time, folks I have ever met.

-Last Real Texan does still own a Donzi and seems to enjoy running it. Donzi Weasel takes about six cups of coffee in the morning to open the eyeballs beyond slits. You guys were a hoot on the fighting deck of the battle wagon in the morning.

-Thanks Russ for helping me out with the grill chef duties. Lot of meat to cook and they ate almost all of it. Thanks to everyone who kicked in with sides and desserts. it was a feast.

-If you couldn’t find something to drink, it was you own dang fault.

-Buizilla has some new tricks up his sleeve. Do it. Thanks for your thoughts on the set-up of the Flowerpot, yet again.

-DonziVol has a +1 in the good karma column for stopping to help some folks out on the water right before a driving rain storm.

-Sandbagger Emertius goes to Tom Riggle for selling his boat to Jason and Cathy and skipping the details on that slightly warmed over 454. Still a very nice running boat.

-The Baxters fly in true style with the RV and Harley in the back. If you haven’t ordered a DMRS shirt, do so before he runs out, they are very nice.

-If we had left ten minutes later for Chattanooga, we would have enjoyed quite the little line of thunder storms. What is one of our runs without a little challenging weather?

-The Gorge is some of the nicest running you could ever get in a Donzi. There were times we ran five and six across in great conditions.

-If you wear flip flops, chances are pretty good that they will wind up in the drink.

-Thanks to Hedgehog and Christina for putting this on and hosting us and many others in a steady stream of traffic on the Roamer all weekend. I did not know about the express stairs option until late Thursday night. Your buddy Brett aka “The Captain” is not human, squidbillie and all.

-Bushwackers can be bad news, but some custom Kettleone martinis can make a few folks do some different things too!

-Let’s do it again!