Skiing, fly fishing, watches (I have a particular thing for Omega watches... not sure why, they are just my favorite), guitars.

All of these things come after my family... I tend to get into whatever my boys are interested in. This explains why I have been playing the PS3 quite a bit lately...

 

Cool, never would've guessed South Africa, would love to go there someday.

 

Music and high end audio, reading, working out, modern architecture & design.

 

Heeey... IPSC here too.. just a newbie, however.

Aside from IPSC.. home audio (b&ws, rotel, etc. etc.)

 

we are good right.... I mean, friends and stuff

thats a great list !

 

FPS (First Person Shooter for you older guys not in the know) Gamer. I'm also an avid autocrosser and like to attend DE's when budget allows.

I used to offroad almost every weekend in college with my old jeep but time and budget don't allow me to have 2 car obsessions/hobbies. LOL

 

Lol - yeah, of course!

Funny thing though... I'm as "guarded" disclosing these hobbies as I am disclosing that I have a p-car... I don't want to get labeled "macho" because I have fun doing these kinds of things any more than I want to be labeled as "rich" because I finally have my dream car; both of which are highly inaccurate, if not incomplete adjectives... and it's interesting how you end up compartmentalizing your life so these pieces of your life stay segregated... for example, none of my martial arts friends know or care about the football thing, anymore than the softball people know or care about the martial arts stuff, or the martial arts guys about my p-car... I guess that's okay, otherwise we'd all be a string of adjectives; teenage mutant ninja turtles... or middle-aged, self-indulgent, naively-in-denial, german-car obsessed nutjobs... (hey, I represent that remark!)

It's all good!

Rudy

 

 

Sailing, and because "High Spirits," is 28 years old, a lot of maintainence with this particular obsession.

 

Chao, good thread!...lots of cool stuff in here, keep it going guys... for me:

Independent travels (what stands out, Tibet, Nepal (summited Annapurna 2, 7937m, Everest base camp), Africa (summited kilimanjaro, 5200m), Summited Cook mountain in NZ, 3754m). The best part.. me and my wife did it together....
Advanced diving (Bali, Red Sea, Great Barrier, Andaman, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malyasia, Thailand Philippines, South Africa... etc.
Play the bass (currently not in a band), photography and my two boys...

a couple of days before summit Annapurna 2



a couple of days before summit Kili

 

No, it's perfect.
Absolutely in character I would say.
(this is meant in a good way Ed.)

 

cool!
- note to self - remove salayc from "ignore list"

j/k man! I knew what you meant!

 

Wow Red - truly impressive! I used to think I was capable of "roughing it" (sounds like you've taken it to a whole new level), spending time on research ships at-sea, but these days roughing it means staying at a hotel without room service... Your travels fall under the category of "Nice to know someone that has"... because I'm the kinda guy that would much rather read about it...

Rudy

 

Earning my turns in a couloiur underneath the Middle Teton.

Crossing over a couloiur to get to another run.

 

Eric,

It's been awhile since I've skied... but if I remember correctly, most places can give you a ride to the top...

Rudy