2013 Washougal Moservations

We had a “best caption” contest on Instagram to run on my 1991 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon this year.  We got a lot of good entries and we sounded like a bunch of women arguing over which was the best.  After finally deciding the winner was “Big doubles no troubles” we realized the window paint that Holliday bought didn’t work though.  No worries Buell bought some from some kids headed to a softball tournament that we saw at the gas station.   Congrats to @breck726 for the winning caption, your prize is in the mail I hope we wrote down your address correctly. 

Here are some of the runner-ups for slogan of 2013.  If you want to look back through all our Instagram post over the weekend check out #WWR13. I know I did to try and piece back together the weekend.

2^nd We cume we conquer

3^rd Dustin off our nuts its Washougal or bust

4^th Washougal bound we’ll have your mom back by Sunday

Nothing outlandish happened on the drive down to Washougal pretty standard road trip.  I have no idea why we ended up with a Unicorn and Horse head mask and yes they are totally creepy, Benny bought them.  They are a good conversation starter though, second only to having an Optrix of course.

Freedom is being able to shower while on the phone.  Also this is an approved method of washing your phone according to Optrix.

With lazer like precision I spotted Tony Alessi in the hotel lobby.  The one arm selfie picture is incredibly easy with the fish eye lens and came in handy all weekend.  I don’t know if Tony doesn’t like me or more likely has no idea who I am but he wasn’t pumped to take the picture.  Who knew this would be the least of his worries on the weekend.  I can’t complain he took the picture with me, it’s not like he poked me in the chest or anything.

Golf at the Edgefield to start off our Friday morning.  This is the second year we’ve done this too early to call it a tradition but it’s a par three course, it’s only 12 holes, there are no rules or dress codes and they promote drinking at 8:30am so it’s a pretty good fit for us.  Alan demonstrates the money shot.

A good day on the links testing the Optrix.Proof that an Optrix is tough.

You know you’re getting old when you have 4 hours to kill in between activities and the unanimous decision is to go back to the room and take a nap.  Maybe were becoming more responsible in our old age, or we just like naps.  Portland international beer fest was simply stated, delicious.  These things are a great time you never know what your going to see great people watching everything from fanny packs to lederhosen, keep Portland weird indeed.  

We had to drag Holliday out of the puppy kissing booth guy couldn’t get enough.  Beer and Optrix go together like Tits Legendary and free stuff.  “Do you constantly drop stuff and spill?  Then Optrix is for you” that should be their new marketing campaign.  At some point during the weekend I realized that the Optrix is drop proof up to 33’, I don’t know what that equates to in throwing distance, I couldn’t find an equation for that.  But I found that throwing your phone a long distance was highly entertaining, a great way to start a conversation and meet new people.  So throwing the Optrix at approximately this part of the trip became common practice.

Throwing someone’s phone into a beer and/or taking a picture through some head also became common practice.  All things you have always wanted to do but never could.  Friday night ended without much sleep for reasons not appropriate in this forum, but it’s safe to say Buell “rooned” our trip.

Over the past couple years the custom tee shirts has kind of become our “thing”.  It helped a lot when Benny decided he just had to have this printing/press machine in case he need a custom shirt.  We always procrastinate until the last minute to make the shirts, then Benny has to pull an all nighter to get them done before the weekend.  This year was no different but it goes without saying they turned out great and the trip wouldn’t have been the same without them. 

Someone needed to step up and tell Weege he was rooning the sport, I mean Reed wasn’t going to step up and do it.  I think there were 6 of us wearing the tank tops, the only goal of the day was to get a group picture with Weege, can’t be that difficult right?  Never happened.  Try coordinating 6 drunk guys at Washougal, can’t be done.

Contrary to what Kenny Watson says I don’t just go barging into semi trucks (except for the one time that we will never speak of again).  People have asked though, how do you get by the security personal stationed at the trucks?  Exhibit A- it’s not that difficult when the security guards are sleeping.  Of course we had to stop by and see how Shorty was hanging.  His hair was on point this weekend, not sure what he’s putting in there but I gotta ask him, it had that messy but I don’t care thing going on, or maybe it was just messy and he didn’t care.

Ever wonder what a pre race podcast looks like?  Well now you know.  Photo courtesy of @bryancaldwellswarm on Instagram who was participating in the BTO VIP fan experience.  I let him give the old Optrix a test drive.  I haven’t closed on the deal just yet but we’ve gotten to about 3^rd base on an Optrix sale.

Georgia Lindsey Albertson demonstrates how to do a fish impression in a fish eye lens.

Benny and I are just resting our eyes before the 1^st 450 moto of the day.  One of us may have fell asleep, spilled a beer all over them selves and missed the entire 1^st 450 moto.  Sigh.

Mechanics no longer need to be worried about getting their phones wet while washing bikes.  They can be tweeting while doing a reach around on the undercarriage.  Pressure washer tested and approved, I got right in there too and ended up taking a soaking.

More unicorn pictures?  No problem.  Aaron Hansel hard at work in the press tent (he’s so hot right now).  Holliday watching the 2^nd 250F moto of the day with a horn on his head.  Horsing around with Shorty.  Johnny O Moto tries to get fresh with me, he must have a thing for magical creatures. 

The short race schedule for live TV will take some getting used to.  The day is over really quick and I think I prefer the racing spread out a little bit more but on the other hand the racing is over so quickly that there is plenty of bro down time in the pits at the end of the day.  You gotta take the good with the bad.  I missed Lazer gate argument by about 5 minutes which I’ll never forgive myself for at least I didn’t sleep though it.  Drama was high in the pits afterwards it felt like high school all over again. 

We detoured on the way out of town to our favorite Washougal breakfast spot Jett Burger only to find out they will be closing next month.  It’s a real heart jearper the end of an era some might say, glad we got to toast to our trip one final time.  It was another great year lots of memories that we have documentation of thanks to Optrix.  All kidding aside the Optrix cases held up great and we beat the hell out of them.  The fish eye lens is something fun and different to play with, the most difficult part is trying to convince a stranger taking your group photo to stand close enough so you don’t look like ants.  Besides the durability of the case I’m still blown away with how well the touch screen works usually with films and covers the touch screen is a pain in the ass but I didn’t notice it at all except for the very edges of the screen.  It’s also easy to slip in and out of the case if you want to avoid a huge bulge in your short shorts.  We met a bunch of Pulpmx fans throughout the day it was cool meeting, talking, drinking and getting to hang out with our wangs out.