We didn’t really skip chasing today but we did decide to take it easy and not zoom down the road to reach a chase target several hours away. After 5 straight days of traveling and chasing – and touching 13 states – today’s setup didn’t look enticing en…

From the moment I heard that Flying Dog Brewery was making a beer with OLD BAY® seasoning I was intrigued. Growing up in Maryland, Old Bay was a staple on the table. Many a summer afternoon was spent consuming copious amounts of steamed crabs covered …

I woke up to this entertaining missive this morning:There were nevertheless several prop motivated to produce a get of the usb ports however, along with a good work way too due to the fact Pennsylvania wines excursions wouldn’t be a part of the ultra-m…

Whew! I’m not sure I can capture all that happened today but here’s at least a brief summary The setup didn’t look favorable today for supercells in our target area of eastern New Mexico but storms were abundant. We rolled south out of Lamar CO this mo…

Over the long commute home this week I read Pint-Sized Ireland: In Search of the Perfect Guinness. The plot is not complicated. Guy and the girl-he-doesn’t-know-he-will-somebody-marry visit Ireland and spend a week hitchhiking clockwise around the country, in search of the Perfect Pint. Previously I had read Round Ireland With a Fridge,which is the story of a guy who makes a drunken bet that he can hitch around Ireland with a fridge in tow, then has to pay up. My first drinking round Ireland book was McCarthy’s Bar, in which a British writer ambles aimlessly from pub to pub, while taking really good notes. It was in this book that I learned one of the immutable laws of the universe.

Never pass a bar with your name on it.

Pint-Sized Ireland added a new law – The perfect pint of Guinness is the one in your hand.

If you’ve read this far you can probably see where this is going. I really want to spend a week aimlessly wandering Ireland, taking in the sights, and as many pubs as I can possibly fit into the week. However, I may be a little too old to hitch and camp out in hostels. I’m thinking rental car and decent hotels. My wife has already made her opinion of this plan clear to me.

So who wants to join me?

I confess:  I have never before chased storms and shivered. Normally storms fire in hot humid environments but the northeasterly winds that provided the upslope lift near the Rocky Mountains were decidedly chilly both yesterday and today. Jackets …