Sun
Mar 9 2008
06:51 pm
By: R. Neal
The Mrs. and I had the pleasure of meeting up with Fletch, the legendary photo blogger and self-proclaimed high-tech drifter. He's a super nice guy and just as peaceful and laid back in person as his photo blogging suggests.
We had breakfast at the Flagler Beach Pier Restaurant, and took a stroll around Flagler Beach and down to a nice county park on the Intercoastal Waterway. Fletch then took us a few miles further up A1A for a tour of the Washington Oaks State Park.
It's always nice to finally meet bloggers in person, especially someone who you feel like you sort of already know after five years in the blogosphere. Fletch's home base is in the Smoky Mountains and ours is in the foothills, but for some reason we had never met up before today, in Florida of all places.
Fletch and Bubba
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Very cool. Y'all look
Very cool. Y'all look relaxed.
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Pam Strickland
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~Kurt Vonnegut
Man, I love this. It is,
Man, I love this.
It is, indeed, a small world.
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I'm just glad I had my hair
I'm just glad I had my hair well-groomed for the photo-op. Enjoyed meeting you guys very much.
Sunshine State blogger get-together?
I've had it with winter here.
Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.
Great idea! We'll have to
Great idea! We'll have to plan one for next year.
Looks like the misses has
Looks like the misses has improved with the camera! (Inside joke!) I was on the panhandle Thursday and Friday, but not on vacation. Glad you are escaping the cold!
A little improvement, R.
A little improvement, R. noticed I had power lines in my background whereas he and fletch had ocean. Oh, well. Next time.
Now we know why bubba uses
Now we know why bubba uses the incognito photo and why bloggers in general stick to the written word, 'cause we got faces made for radio. :-)
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
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