Another Intentsly Campy Adventure
OK, trip number one: camping...
	...with Julia. We went to the Birkhead Mountain Wilderness outside of Asheboro, NC.
Look, I found the car!
	And Julia practiced looking pensive.
Summer in Blacksburg
I went down to Blacksburg the very next weekend... sort of because Julia was there, but also to see the other area residents who were sweating it out over the summer. We saw this weird sign while we were there.
	Seriously, it turned out that it also happened to be the week they drained the Duck Pond to look for evidence after the shootings. If was defintely an interesting sight to see.
I at least thought they would have cleaned up the trash while they were at it, but no.
	Ducks!
Anyway, I was meeting up with the people for Dinner (a SURPRISE dinner, no less) around 7 or 8pm, but I got there a few hours early. So I went and played disc golf at the local course (a very nice course, by the way). However, I still had an hour or two to waste, so I decided to go on a tour of The Bridges of Montgomery County. This here is a bridge on the 460 bypass near the Main Street interchange. It is surprisingly tall.
	This is one of the bridges on the VTTI Smart Road. Click here to see a previous trip to the illustrious road. Anyway, after seeing this bridge, it became my goal to find the other, larger one on the same road. Armed with my trusty Virginia Atlas and Gazetteer, I set off to find [dun dun DUUUNNNN] the tallest bridge in the state.
After about ten minutes of driving down a twisty and winding road, I crested a hill to find this view in front of me.
	Ooh, ahh.
So it took me a while to find a place to turn the car around, but I eventually managed to do so and headed back into town. Fortunately, I had to drive past the bridge again.
	Look at how ridiculously tall it is.
The town near the base of the bridge must have really wanted you to stop for traffic.
	Hey, dinner! Man, was she surprised.
But everybody else knew that I was going to be there. Good for you all.
	And then we played a bit of DDR. Kevin and I are thinking about making these shorts the official attire of the game.
In the Car
110,000 miles, yay.
	And then, only a few days later, 111,111 miles. I took a video, but nobody cares.
Fourth of July
Woo, Fourth of July. This year I went with the newlyweds to see the fireworks at Dogwood Dell. There were a lot of people there, even several hours early, just to hear the musical performances. These guys were pretty good.
	This is the scene about another hundered yards back from where the last picture was taken. There were definitely several thousand people in attendance.
And why not? We eventually had the Richmond Concert Band come on and play patriotic Sousa-esque pieces before the culmination of the evening: the 1812 Overture. They claimed that we were the only people in the country to play it as originally arranged, with an orchestra, fireworks, a carillon, and cannon (pictured.)
	The grand finale was quite impressive, I have to admit.
The Baltimore Trip that Sort of Wasn't
So... I drove to meet up with some more college persons in Maryland. We were going to go to a Baltimore Orioles game on one of their Friday college-students-get-really-cheap-admission nights. However, getting there was problematic. First, it took me a full hour to traverse the 7 miles between 95 and the Wilson bridge on the beltway around DC. Then, we got this flat tire in the rain on the way from Elaine's house in Bowie to Baltimore.
	But with a little help from a gas station attendant outside of the NSA headquarters, we were off again. Unfortunately, upon our arrival, we found out that they were out of tickets. Darn Yankees. Darn Alex Rodriguez having your birthday. Darn Alex Rodriguez being on the verge of his 500th home run. Darn you teams and your having to finish a game that got rained out last month. There were quite a few factors that led to this impasse. Anyway, we hung around Baltimore for a while before going back to Jeremy's hometown on Annapolis to waste the night away... playing card games at a local coffee shop.

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