13 hours...

It just dawned on me:

When you tell time on a 12 hour clock, you do not use the 0-12 range of hours but 1-13...

Sounds funny and far fetched...

No matter if it's 12:13 AM, or 12:13 PM, you use a thirteenth hour.  

Just think about it.

 

WTF - this flag baffled me..

I NEED HELP TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING!

A couple of weeks ago I rode to Northport, Long Island. There is a nice harbor in this small North Shore village.

And this is what I saw: (have a close look at the picture).
I saw 'trumpist' flags, but this one baffled me - "re elect' Trump - but what is the last digit of the year? It doesn't look like '4'... This photo was shot in October 2024.
If this is '0', an old, battered flag - from the previous election?
Am I missing something - or some people live in a parallel universe?

Am I missing something - or some people live in a parallel universe? 

A motorcycle trip from New York City to Orient Point, LI - ferry across the Sound to New London - and a trip home through the Connecticut...

Yesterday, (Wednesday 10.09.24) I made finally the LOOP, as shown on the image (on my motorcycle).

From New York City to Orient Point, LI - about 107 miles (2h 45m). And then a ferry across the Sound to New London (1h 20min trip). And then 128 miles from New London, home.

247.8 miles which should take 5 - 5.5 hours of riding, and actually took 9 hours - thanks to the traffic around New Haven, then Stamford, and from Mount Vernon right to the gates of the NYC.

BUT:

I had a pleasure to sail across the Sound on the ferry which happened to be U.S.S LST 510 - one of the boats which landed our troops on Omaha Beach during the D-Day in 1944.

I have to admit - I felt privileged...

(and the smooth ride going East through the LI Wine Country was amazing - I will have a few screengrabs from the video my GoPro was recording - in the next post...)

Andy Warhol - Eating A Hamburger (1982) - a conversation piece (a joke)

 Yesterday, I rode to Long Island (Jones Beach). I always liked Long Island, and even though the traffic is ridiculously slow (a trip of 90 miles in 5 hours and 30 minutes - with just 40 minutes on the beach) I still do it sometimes...

There is a famous, little video by the Genius of the Pop Art: Andy Warhol - Eating A Hamburger (1982)

I just couldn't refuse myself a pleasure of making a 'conversation piece' about the famous video...

I film all my riding (you never know what can come out of it) and in most cases, throw away the footage.

But sometimes:

https://vimeo.com/1009957217/d9835ed2c3?share=copy

FACEBOOK (FB) LIFE - one lives to remember...

I live on Facebook.  Since its inception, it has become the most efficient way to communicate with people who live far away, often on different continents.  

It's not an addiction, as some suggest, but a 'life line'.

I value people who I met, and with whom I have something in common - be it experiences, political views, or simply curiosity.

I live on Facebook...  However, this platform doesn't make it easy to keep track of your posts.
It doesn't even show the latest posts to some of the friends...

Last year I went on a TRIP OF MY LIFETIME - a solo motorcycle journey from New York City, NY, to Santa Barbara, CA and back.  It took me 26 days of riding (all together 27 days)>
I posted to FB every day some images, my itinerary and some comments...  
I learned later, that if I wanted to see the whole trip, there was no way to return to the early entries.

So, I copied all the FB entries about the trip and reposted them on this blog.  I created the section of this blog called:  "JOURNEY ACROSS THE CONTINENT AND BACK (2023)", so I  could return to the Journey whenever I wanted.  
It's also accessible from this link on my website:  https://www.jmk-gallery.com/across

I only wish that I started from making posts about this Journey on the blog and linked these posts to the FB.

Well, this is exactly what I decided to do now.
So, anybody who would like to keep track of my posts (if there is such a person) will have a clear and easy path.  Just log in the
INCOHERENTRANT.COM  blog (or ALMOSTINCOHERENTRANT.COM)
and you can see any post at will, and comment at will as well.  Without the FB scrutiny.

Until the next time, my friends...