AYYYYY! AYYY! AYYYYE! Baybay!---Mira a los caballos!

Photo by Photosho

Photo by PhotoSho

Hola companeros! Me and my BAYYYBAY Sho, traveled to Chincoteague Island, on the Eastern Shore of  Virginia, as well as Assateague Island off of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. There are approximately 150 feral horses on each island both of which are part of the Assateague Island National Seashore, of which it costs 15 dollars to enter for a one week visit. Supposedly in 1750 a Spanish ship ran ashore, causing a rupture in the hull, thus causing a group of horses to run free. The other more widely accepted explanation is that land owners on Virginia and Maryland's eastern shore simply set the horses that they no longer wanted loose (trying to avoid taxes) on the island on these barrier islands and thus a group of domesticated horses became wild.  I would certainly recommend a trip to the Maryland half where the above pictures were taken! As you can see, one can get quite close to the horses. They are beautiful! In addition it was interesting to drive through the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Va.  Although they are in relatively close proximity to the Washington D.C metro area, they are quite rural and one feels very distant from the hubbub of the  Mid -Atlantic/Northeast Megalopolis and the Eastern seaboard in general.  Do go visit!!!!

This is David, signing off saying every once in a while, drinkin' and bloggin' is so much fun!!!( listen to the Business circa 1982.... )

Adios and Buenos Noches..mundo carino! 

Apple Sauce in Holland! On French Fries?

Yes speaking of Apple Sauce, In the Netherlands, children eat French Fries with Apple Sauce as a condiment.I can see the salt and sweet bit, might make for an interesting mix of flavors. This might be common knowledge that most fine completely uninteresting. So be it. I never knew that these two mix to the delight of many in Holland. The Dutch, I am well aware, enjoy high cholestrol mayonnaise with their french fries but Apple Sauce. Muy original with the condiments. I realize that this fact  is more of a candied apple for the brain, but new junk foodish facts can count as well!

Have a bite! Tzu does not =zoo!

Good Evening to myself and the world! As I mentioned in post number one, I am on a dead end quest to learn as much useful and useless information that I can pack in my lifetime. This posting will be relatively short. Look at it as having one of those mini apple sauce containers that your mom packed for your lunch when you were but a wee babe in arms! It's not a full Fuji Apple eaten to the core but at least you can say you were in the ballpark! Its all good, karma gives us some slack.

  Anyway here it is: What is famous Eastern Zhou dynasty military advisor, Sun Tzu's real name? Answer: SUN WU! SUN WHO? Yes, indeed, the TZU in Sun Tzu means MASTER. WU is his given name! Who knew that the TZU is really a WU???!!!! Not I.  Join me tommorow for a bit more cranial nutrition. For now, sleep tight, and soak in the nutrition!

Gatorade for Curiousity: Chasing the Horizon for Fun!

Hi there! My name is Dave! I am a weird, kind of dorky guy who has a more than eclectic range of interests, hobbies and facinations! They range from the most mundane things imaginable including state route/highway designs, license plates,blocks of  swiss cheese....to the very highminded pursuits of mankind including how societies are organized politically, economically and socially, literature, fine art music, etc ......and then all of the  things in  between these two poles, including imagining myself to be a star soccer player and heading imaginary balls in the aisles of grocery stores, constantly making lists of new hobbies that I want to try out and smothering my love, Sho, with affection.

   I love knowing things for  the sake of knowing them. Learning something new for me is its own reward regardless of whether or not that knowledge has any practical occupational/vocational application. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, I like to make lists of new hobbies to try, and one of those hobbies that I indeed would like to try is making a blog that is dedicated to my bottomless interest in learning new facts/ideas/other previously unconsidered things. So everyday, I will post  something new and perhaps add some miscellaneous content as well. But the title of this blog will set the tone: I will be feeding myself and anyone who cares to read, a mental apple every day in the enduring and most likely quixotic attempt to squeeze as much knowledge from the orange of life as possible! Here goes nothing!