http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/ Add description here. en Copyright 2009 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:11:28 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The calm of a summer morning, still cool from the previous night's thunderstorms, is broken only by the sound of an occasional truck rumbling down US 1 and the faint whine of Japanese motorcycles. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/08/pax-trax-in-bunnell----best-track-in-florida.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/08/pax-trax-in-bunnell----best-track-in-florida.html Rednecks, Rollergirls and Rowdies Wild Things Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:11:28 -0500 Six people sit at a round dining table in a shotgun-barrel-shaped room, completely dark except for the cold phosphorescence of a glow stick and a few other glow-in-the-dark items. Each rests his or her fingertips on the table edge, trying to maintain contact with whatever spirit from the other side has chosen to visit. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/07/adventure-man-gets-spooky.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/07/adventure-man-gets-spooky.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:57:57 -0500 http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/07/adventure-man-goes-ridin.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/07/adventure-man-goes-ridin.html Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:29:19 -0500 In cities like Port Orange, Lake Helen, DeLand, Ormond Beach and two dozen or so other cities in Florida and elsewhere, those fantastic fireworks come courtesy of a 127-year-old family firm headquartered in our own back yard. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/santore-sons.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/santore-sons.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:32:25 -0500 I'd put in several months of training, so now all I had left to do was swim a quarter-mile, bike 10 miles and run three. Then I could say I'd finished the Ormond Beach YMCA Tri-Y Triathlon. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/the-ormond-beach-ymca-tri-y-triathlon-not-just-another-day-at-the-beach.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/the-ormond-beach-ymca-tri-y-triathlon-not-just-another-day-at-the-beach.html Wild Things Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:48:51 -0500 By MORRIS SULLIVANThere are a few things every guy - and yes, some women - should do at least once in their lifetime. Driving a 600-horsepower NASCAR-style racecar around the 31-degree banked turns of the Daytona International Speedway belongs on... http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/being-richard-petty.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/being-richard-petty.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:03:17 -0500 Early one crisp morning, as spring breakers still slept off the damage of the night before, I arrived at the Silver Beach ramp where Daytona Beach Parasail had set up shop. I watched the surf roll in. The waves broke close to the sand, suggesting calm offshore waters. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/adventure-man-goes-parasailing.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/adventure-man-goes-parasailing.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:50:16 -0500 There are still places on earth where one can camp in the untamed wilderness with nothing over his head but the milky way and nothing to break the midnight silence but the whispering breeze, the plaintive call of a whip-poor-will, and the far away cry of a lonesome coyote. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/camping-hontoon-island.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/06/camping-hontoon-island.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:15:08 -0500 I thought a jet boat tour of the Halifax River might at least qualify as an unusual, stirring experience. Captain Bill Mullican assured me his jet boat gave a wild ride. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/05/adventure-man-gets-wet-on-a-jet.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/05/adventure-man-gets-wet-on-a-jet.html Thu, 28 May 2009 12:51:35 -0500 Morris Sullivan finds out what it takes to work out with Superman of the Century, pound-for-pound the strongest man in the world. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/05/powerlifting-with-the-strongest-man-in-the-world.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/05/powerlifting-with-the-strongest-man-in-the-world.html powerlifting; jim mccarty; superman of the century; weightlifting; weight training Wed, 13 May 2009 15:06:56 -0500 I visit the Cole Bros. Circus winter quarters to test my mettle in the Globe of Death, a metal mesh orb big enough to hold a handful of motorcyclists zooming centrifugally around its interior on Japanese dirt bikes. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/03/adventure-man-in-the-globe-of-death.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/03/adventure-man-in-the-globe-of-death.html Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:02:54 -0500 "A lot of people down here still think roller derby is like WWF. But we are true athletes - we sacrifice our bodies for this sport." http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/03/sintral-florida-derby-demons-roll-into-a-new-season.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/03/sintral-florida-derby-demons-roll-into-a-new-season.html Rednecks, Rollergirls and Rowdies roller derby sintral florida derby demons skating Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:46:08 -0500 "We do everything we can to keep the party going ... run around doing body shots, get them to join in a sing-along, shoot pool, introduce them around--whatever we can to make people feel at home." http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/02/gents-clubs-rock-during-bike-week.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/02/gents-clubs-rock-during-bike-week.html Rednecks, Rollergirls and Rowdies Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:48:36 -0500 ...if I hadn't had to backtrack and hunt for the map I'd dropped on the road during the bike portion and had to backtrack again to pick up the passport I'd dropped elsewhere on the trail, I'd at least have edged out both teams of 10-year-old girls. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/02/adventure-racing-in-tomoka-state-park.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2009/02/adventure-racing-in-tomoka-state-park.html Rednecks, Rollergirls and Rowdies Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:26:00 -0500 Floating through the air 2,300 feet above Pierson in a plane with no engine. http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2008/12/soaring-with-the-eagles-over-pierson.html http://blogs.three8six.com/outthere/2008/12/soaring-with-the-eagles-over-pierson.html Rednecks, Rollergirls and Rowdies Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:16:25 -0500