Samson in the dandelion field at 9 weeks:
It was that time again. Campstoc 2013 was held at Willville Motorcycle Campground, Meadows of Dan, VA. Left early in the morning on my BMW F800GS. The Honda ST1300 was in need of tires at the time, and besides I wanted to do some dirt roads.
Headed up through US 220 in NC and continued on US 52 to Mt. Airy, when I left major highways behind, and continued up on Squirrel Spur road, a maze of nice twisties and turns. I eventually hit The Blueridge Parkway. By that time, the temperature had dropped to about 60 degrees. I took my sweet time on the Parkway, hit US58 and pulled in to the campground. It looked like I was one of the first to arrive. It was very quiet. Mule was unloaded, and I set up camp as close to the river as I could.
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A group of us decided to ride over to Burke’s Garden, VA for the day on Friday. Very nice area, and the roads were built for serious riding. Had no trouble at all keeping up with the St13’s on my oversized dirt bike :-).<a
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Eating hot dogs and hamburgers, finishing up with cobbler made on the fire.
Dutch Oven containing the Cobbler Dessert. Yummm.
On Saturday I decided to just ride the Blueridge Parkway and relax, stopping here and there for photos.
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Mabry Mill.
The rest of the gang discusssing where to ride off to.
Still deciding:-)
Tunes…
Will the camp host. You just can’t have a better camp host than Will. Making camp fires for us every night, and joining us telling tales from his younger days of motorcycle adventures.
Had fun, as always. Looking forward to the Blueridge Gathering in the fall.
Two more weeks to wait for our male Shiloh baby. We'll be headed to Nancy's in Virginia to pick him up. We're very excited to finally get to see and hold him.
I should have added in the original post that Stacey at Roseland Shilohs has done a tremendous job with mom Annie and the puppies. We could not have asked for better care. We could not have asked for better communication as to what's happening. Every time she posts those beautiful pictures (pictures below are also courtesy Roseland Shilohs) it is like Christmas. We're jumping in excitement every time a new post, picture or video is posted.
We are very excited. Roseland Shilohs in PA just had a litter of 4 beautiful Shiloh puppies, two males and two females (Athens, Rome, Paris and Milan). We have been looking and waiting for a male as an addition to our family for a long, long time. It finally looks like we are fortunate to get us a male from the litter between
Semper Fi Major Smith, TT, CGC aka Major and
IC-CH iCH bTP bCH Roselands Zavana Sun Of Azzaro, CGC, TT aka Annie.
The litter was born April 8th 2013. This is a partnership breeding between Roseland Shilohs in PA and Azzaro Shilohs in VA. Stacey at Roseland Shilohs and Nancy at Azzaro Shilohs are both extremely dedicated breeders, and we trust them 150%. Below are some photos of a proud Annie with her puppies (with permission from Stacey to post)
These two can play for a full day straight, no kidding. When Gucci leaves and goes back home, she is pouting for a couple of days before she’s herself again.
