Outdoors on Michael Doornbos

Mountains to sea trail day

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 17:50:08 +0000

Appalachian Trail day

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 17:46:00 +0000

Biltmore bikes

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:11:20 +0000

Broke out the bikes on Sunday. Now my butt hurts. #weirdproblems

Added a kettle bell and a backpack to my daily walk now

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:55:52 +0000

Yeah we live here. Perfect morning for a long walk alone.

Sun, 14 Jun 2020 09:56:14 +0000

Perfect outside working weather

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:20:01 +0000

Hard to complain today about much of anything.

A hard left turn for me

Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:13:52 +0000

I think a lot about direction lately. My trip to Daytona to meet with other EAA leaders has really solidified what I’m looking for.

This sums it up perfectly in so many ways:

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Hey, once upon a younger year
When all our shadows disappeared
The animals inside came out to play
Hey, when face to face with all our fears
Learned our lessons through the tears
Made memories we knew would never fade

What does a UAS pilot do to prepare for a huge snow storm?

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:57:39 +0000

He files for a 9 mile radius NOTAM for the whole weekend over a really beautiful part of the country. That’s what.

[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“800.0”] * the actual flying will be a small subset of this airspace but since they make you do a center point with a radius it has to be filed like this[/caption]

It's just an old beat up truck

Wed, 28 May 2014 17:20:42 +0000

Its just an old beat up truck
Some say that I should trade up
Now that I got some jangle in my pocket
But what they don’t understand
Is it’s the miles that make a man
I wouldn’t trade that thing in for a rocket

-Dierks Bentley “I Hold On”

Why do you fish?

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:24:16 +0000

A few weeks ago, someone asked me why I fish in a way that went something like this:

“Why do you like fishing? It’s sooo boring, and what did the fish do to you to deserve that anyway? It’s really stupid.”

I don’t remember not knowing how to fish. I may have learned to fish before I could speak in sentences. I don’t know really, because I could fish before my brain was mature enough to remember before I knew how.

Tying some flies

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:12:07 +0000

Not sure I’d pay for this one, but not to shabby for my first hand tied fly: