J Dog's East Coast US tour 11/08

[jdogric12]

John, being a first class host, arranged a very special evening. We attended a concert at University of Richmond by the Punch Brothers. This is an extremely talented and cool band featuring Chris Thile, known for being part of Nickel Creek (mandolin). These guys were on the level of Bela Fleck, etc. and totally blew us away for two hours. This is definitely in my top 5 best concerts EVER. After the show we got to meet the whole band and take pictures and get autographs on their new CD. I highly recommend it. Go and check out this band right now.

John and I also had a great dinner before the show and visited a music store in Richmond. Here's some pics from tonight courtesy John's camera and photo skillz.

J Dog and Chris Thile

J Dog and Chris Eldridge

J Dog and Gabe Witcher

[jdogric12]

John says to add: their encore was a song written by Jack White of the White Stripes! Neat! Can you spell versatility???

J Dog and their brand new bassist, Paul; this was his fifth gig with the band and he pwned!!!!

J Dog and Noam "Pickles" Pikelny

Now, a few beeeeeers and off to bed. Tomorrow: tour of NASA's Langley Research Center!!!

[jdogric12]

By the way, for all you investors out there... we stopped by here.......

http://www.richmondmusic.com/56strat.php

[johnallg]

Jdog, cool you got to see and meet Nickle Creek - I've listened to them on XM now for quite a while. Excellent stuff. Sounds like you are having one great road trip!

[mrs_brown]

Cool Cool Cool keep em coming Jdog...what a great trip! Enjoy every minute!

[ajish4]

Great stuff Jdog,

Keep 'em coming!

Mike Parks? You mean he REALLY exists?

[jdogric12]

Yep, he's real, Tony, just like Santy Claus and the Ether Bunny!!!!!

So here's my tour of NASA's LaRC... huge thanks to John - this was really amazing! And should my country need me, I am now prepared to land a module on the moon. For reals!

Arrival:

A Columbia Lancair

[jdogric12]

one more of the plane:

A mock up of a crew capsule for the next lunar mission:

NASA's 757 simulator:

[jdogric12]

Now J Dog lands a module on the moon...

[johneek]

Now J Dog lands a module on the moon...

Uh...not exactly perfect on the first try.....How bad did he crash it? Let's just say your taxes are about to go up!

[beatlefreak]

Cool pics! Looking forward to more.

[jdogric12]

Yeah but that score of 97% on the third try was pretty sweet!!!!!

And finally, the Launch Abort System, which will be on the Aries 1-X launch vehicle. This will prevent a disaster such as what happened with Challenger.

Thanks again John Koelling for the "inside" tour of LaRC. What a cool place to work!!! Now it's time for MARF 2 1/2.

[leftybass]

Now he's J-LUCKY-Dog....

[johnallg]

Now he's J-LUCKY-Dog....

Looking good sitting in the Lancair Dog!

[jps]

Very cool Jdog, you landed on the Moon! Well, after two crashes...