Time for another year in the most screwed up of all the professional sports. Major league baseball - or - should we call it the sport of the have's and the have not's returns. Tomorrow we are going up to the Trop to see the local boys, the Tampa Bay Rays take on the bullies from Boston. Yes, the Red Sox open their season here in sunny Florida. A quick look at payrolls for the two franchises (from Spotrac.com):
Boston Red Sox = $234,600,428 MLB rank #1
Tampa Bay Rays = $78,219,329 MLB rank #28
Wow - that seems fair.
Oh well, I'll complain more about payroll disparity later in the season but for today I'll just make some haphazard and random picks for the coming season.
Division Winners - NL
East - Washington Nationals
Central - Chicago Cubs
West - Los Angeles Dodgers
Wild Card 1 - New York Mets
Wild Card 2 - Arizona Diamondbacks
Divison Winners - AL
East - New York Yankees
Center - Cleveland Indians
West - Houston Astros
Wild Card 1 - Minnesota Twins
Wild Card 2 - Tampa Bay Rays
NL Pennant - Washington Nationals
AL Pennant - Cleveland Indians
World Series Champs - Cleveland Indians
Cy Young Award
Al - Corey Kluber - Indians
NL - Noah Syndergaard - Mets
MVP
Al - Mike Trout - Angels
NL - Bryce Harper - Nationals
Play Ball!
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
We're back
Hello anybody who may have bookmarked or setup the auto email for new posts from this blog. In light of the recent Facebook data breach scandal I have decided to re-activate this page to share and document our travels and adventures. Nothing exciting going on right now but we have our 3rd annual camping trip to the Florida Keys scheduled for next month. Hope your having a great day and welcome back to dukebuaer.blogspot.com.
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Saturday, November 14, 2015
From the golf course.
We live across the street from the 16th hole on the Oakland Hills golf course. We took the Princess over there for some fun and games tonight. Here are two videos from the course.
Kim and Leaya fix the trap.
Video from the 16th fairway.
These video's were shot with my Holy Stone quad copter.
Kim and Leaya fix the trap.
Video from the 16th fairway.
These video's were shot with my Holy Stone quad copter.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
A new toy
I'll be posting video's from my new quad copter on youtube and providing links here. This will take you to my youtube quad copter playlist.
These videos were all shot around my house. As I get better with the controls I'll be looking for more interesting places to film.
These videos were all shot around my house. As I get better with the controls I'll be looking for more interesting places to film.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Half way home
Greetings from Little Rock Arkansas! We are spending a couple nights here at my mothers house before we make the final push for home. The internet is pretty fast so I thought I would get my maps caught up.
Our first day out of Santa Rosa, last Thursday, we made it to Austin, Nevada. We had two interesting stops that day, the first was at the Donner Pass rest area and the second was at an old Pony express station on Highway 50.
Day Miles - 401
Summer Miles - 12,845
On Friday we drove from Austin, Nv over to Salina, Utah. Nothing too exciting that day, just miles and miles on Highway 50, AKA, the loneliest road in America. Don't believe me - well here you go.
Day - 365
Trip - 14,638
It's been a long week to say the least. We have been here in North Little Rock for two nights and are probably going to stay one more. We will probably leave Friday morning and be back home on Saturday evening.
Our first day out of Santa Rosa, last Thursday, we made it to Austin, Nevada. We had two interesting stops that day, the first was at the Donner Pass rest area and the second was at an old Pony express station on Highway 50.
Summer Miles - 12,845
On Friday we drove from Austin, Nv over to Salina, Utah. Nothing too exciting that day, just miles and miles on Highway 50, AKA, the loneliest road in America. Don't believe me - well here you go.
There you have it, Highway 50 is the self claimed loneliest road in America.
Day miles - 369
Summer Miles - 13,214
Saturday was a short day. We only drove from Salina over to New Castle, Co. We stayed with a friend of my old neighbor Ken Hayashi. His name is Jim Kuhn and he grew up back in the triple cities area, attending Vestal high school. We got to talking to Jim and it turns out his dad lives in Rotonda West, about 5 blocks away from our house. Talk about a small world!
Day Miles - 280
Summer - 13,494
From New Castle we drove into Castle Rock where we had dinner with one of Kim's friends from her time in Colorado. Then it was due east to Limon, Co.
Day Miles - 265
Trip - 13, 759
From Limon it took two more days to get here. We stopped in Fredonia, Kansas the first night, then made it to North Little Rock on the second day.
Trip - 13, 759
From Limon it took two more days to get here. We stopped in Fredonia, Kansas the first night, then made it to North Little Rock on the second day.
Day Miles - 514
Summer - 14,273
Here's the last map for the first half (or more likely two thirds) of our tip back to Florida.
Day - 365
Trip - 14,638
It's been a long week to say the least. We have been here in North Little Rock for two nights and are probably going to stay one more. We will probably leave Friday morning and be back home on Saturday evening.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Time to head home
It's been a great trip but it's time to go home. We are headed back to Florida later this morning. We estimate about 7-10 days to get back. Thanks for following the blog, we will attempt to get some more posts up while we head across country.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
A little tundra golf in the Yukon
Greetings to anyone still following our adventures:
Todays pictures and video's are from August 5th up in the Yukon. We woke up that morning at our favorite Whitehorse campground, Pioneer RV Park. We headed east on the Alaska Highway then turned south on the road to Skagway. Our first stop was the Annie Lake Golf Course. This course is the definition of pasture golf. It literally is carved out of the tundra just west of the Klondike highway. The course costs $5 for 18 holes, on the honor system of course. No starter, no golf carts and no grass! A couple of the local rules include: Bears and Moose have the right of way, if you loose your ball down a gopher hole (in the fairway) no penalty and make sure to drag the greens when finishing the hole. The last one will make more sense if you view these pictures. Video's 1-4 show Kim in action at the course.
From Annie's Lake we headed south on the Klonidke highway. Our next stop was the Emerald Lake pull off. As the name implies this lake is a beautiful green which you can see in video six . From there we drove down to the worlds smallest desert, in Carcross. The dogs had a great time sprinting back and forth in the sand, well for a short time they did. Then they just enjoyed a nap. Finally, we headed back to the Alaska highway via Highway 8, also known as Tagish road. While driving up we saw a couple of really cool rainbows. You can see them in videos 12 and 13 via the below link.
I put all of the videos for the day in one playlist which you can find here.
I also posted some pictures from Emerald Lake and Carcross. You can find them here.
Kim and I are heading into San Francisco in an hour or so. We have tickets for the Pittsburgh Pirates vs San Francisco Giants game tonight.
Todays pictures and video's are from August 5th up in the Yukon. We woke up that morning at our favorite Whitehorse campground, Pioneer RV Park. We headed east on the Alaska Highway then turned south on the road to Skagway. Our first stop was the Annie Lake Golf Course. This course is the definition of pasture golf. It literally is carved out of the tundra just west of the Klondike highway. The course costs $5 for 18 holes, on the honor system of course. No starter, no golf carts and no grass! A couple of the local rules include: Bears and Moose have the right of way, if you loose your ball down a gopher hole (in the fairway) no penalty and make sure to drag the greens when finishing the hole. The last one will make more sense if you view these pictures. Video's 1-4 show Kim in action at the course.
From Annie's Lake we headed south on the Klonidke highway. Our next stop was the Emerald Lake pull off. As the name implies this lake is a beautiful green which you can see in video six . From there we drove down to the worlds smallest desert, in Carcross. The dogs had a great time sprinting back and forth in the sand, well for a short time they did. Then they just enjoyed a nap. Finally, we headed back to the Alaska highway via Highway 8, also known as Tagish road. While driving up we saw a couple of really cool rainbows. You can see them in videos 12 and 13 via the below link.
I put all of the videos for the day in one playlist which you can find here.
I also posted some pictures from Emerald Lake and Carcross. You can find them here.
Kim and I are heading into San Francisco in an hour or so. We have tickets for the Pittsburgh Pirates vs San Francisco Giants game tonight.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
The Whitehorse fish ladder
Stories from the road.
Now that we are back and have reliable internet the plan is to upload video and pictures then do a short post describing what you are going to see. Our first episode is from August 4th back in Whitehorse in the Yukon territory. Kim does this thing called letterboxing. Letterboxing is similar to geocaching in that you follow clues to find a hidden box. The difference it that the box contains a rubber stamp. You can read more about Letterboxing here.
We were headed out of Whitehorse towards the Damn on the Yukon river to look for one such box when we came across the local fish ladder. The purpose of this fish ladder is to allow Salmon to get past a giant damn. They have fish ladders all over Canada, this one claims to be the longest wooden fish ladder in the world! We stopped at the dam/ladder and wouldn't you know it the first Salmon of the season happened to enter the ladder right then. Of course, we have video of the event.
Here's the youtube link to 5 videos from the fish ladder.
Here's the link to some pictures we posted to Flickr.
You can view the online "Fish Cam" here. Finally, here's a link to a pdf with additional information on the Dam and fish ladder.
Now that we are back and have reliable internet the plan is to upload video and pictures then do a short post describing what you are going to see. Our first episode is from August 4th back in Whitehorse in the Yukon territory. Kim does this thing called letterboxing. Letterboxing is similar to geocaching in that you follow clues to find a hidden box. The difference it that the box contains a rubber stamp. You can read more about Letterboxing here.
We were headed out of Whitehorse towards the Damn on the Yukon river to look for one such box when we came across the local fish ladder. The purpose of this fish ladder is to allow Salmon to get past a giant damn. They have fish ladders all over Canada, this one claims to be the longest wooden fish ladder in the world! We stopped at the dam/ladder and wouldn't you know it the first Salmon of the season happened to enter the ladder right then. Of course, we have video of the event.
Here's the youtube link to 5 videos from the fish ladder.
Here's the link to some pictures we posted to Flickr.
You can view the online "Fish Cam" here. Finally, here's a link to a pdf with additional information on the Dam and fish ladder.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Dempster Highway
Here are 16 video's from our North bound drive up the Dempster Highway. Click here
And here's a link to a four minute video of a Caribou walking in front of our RV. This guy was over on the Top of the World highway.
Teklanika River Hike
I've been busy uploading video's today. During our visit to Denali we took a long hike up the Teklanika river. Here's a link to 17 video's I made that day.
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