Friday, February 20, 2009

Margaritas In A Bucket Are They Good

Last post

THE END

It 'been fun to try to make you live the adventure.
E 'was fun to write our own anxieties, expectations and emotions.
E 'satisfactory condition to receive your messages of esteem.
E 'was great to experience this trip!

We hope this blog will be useful to those who will arrange for Elefantentreffen the next few years!

Hello everyone!

Kappa
Leather
Sl4sh

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Bed Slat Measurements For Queen

Elephant B & W

Well, the experiment has succeeded in part ...
I suspect that the film was not in good condition, I had little practice and the laboratory as printing and scanning "craft" we have put them, but there's something salvageable.
I leave you the feedback.































Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Where Can I Find Menards

Article: Self-awareness


Throughout the therapeutic process of self psychology Multimode, awareness refers to the Self in its smaller deep, those of recovery and the integration of affective states. Self-awareness is the ability to tune into your true self. This becomes possible by the patient only by rediscovering the body awareness, emotions, their needs, their resources, their own personal history. Recovering an internal project of healing which necessarily entails the ability of self recognition, which means a right to exist as a person who acts and establishing meaningful interpersonal relationships. Self-reflexive awareness is therefore the correlation between the development of the self and the ability to establish a secure attachment and significant other. A self-stable and flexible, where stable means continuity and cohesion of states of mind and emotional self. It becomes the new flexible capacity of the self to learn and take shape is in accordance with their needs and affective states (emotions and motivations) and with the ability to integrate new relationships. And 'the recovery of the deep meaning of their lives. Only a consolidated, integrated self can also be flexible and stable, the risk is the opposite dissociation. In the course of an individual's life are so many emotions, as well as the feelings that will flow and obviously the triggers that lead to awareness of self, are the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. The patient decided to pursue a course of treatment is driven by a strong motivation, whatever it may be intrinsic or extrinsic, generally the first one. Clearly much or how strong the motivation, the patient brings with it many inhibitions in the early sessions, and with a continuous cycle of treatment will tend to dissolve, leaving room for the emerging self. The Self-awareness, for example, a patient who has had an annual cycle of psychotherapy, of course, with a frequency of at least once a week, he points out, in it, a marked improvement in stability and flexibility of the self, when no 'is no progress is resulting in the disease. Finally, I want to clarify that the awareness of one's self produces a significant change in the nature of an individual's life: as you change the interpersonal approaches and sometimes radical changes occur. The relationship with your body changes, feeling stimulated the search for new needs. This should not cause fear in those who decide to take individual therapy, because the knowledge needed to regain their lives listening to their needs and living "the here and now."

Cristian Chiappetta

Monday, February 9, 2009

Colds That Resemble Strep

but not all ...

As you may have noticed, however, I brought with me my digital camera ...
but promised to accompany me in this adventure was also my Nikon "vintage", loaded with this ...



There will be a while 'waiting, just as it once was, and who knows ... maybe the photos came too bad after all is an experiment.

But take in the magic of analog is enough to make the most special moments in which it extracts the car to stop in time and cover when the prints, a few years, will have the taste of nostalgia that we are forgetting too easily. Bring

still just a little 'patience ... ;-)

Friday, February 6, 2009

What's The Chemical Formula For Carnauba Wax

chronicle of the trip - 3rd and final day of the trip

Somehow the night passed ... we open our eyes and we see that the fabric of the tent has taken on a gray-blue ... It will be when the sun already?
Yes, are 6.45 and Kappa can breathe a sigh of relief ... thought he had slept a few hours.

leather with a snap cat rushes out of the tent, of course, the dose of "adventure" and was uncomfortable enough and the desire to escape from the hell you feel ... :-)

Sl4sh Kappa and wake up with more phlegm, but without exaggeration. We meet without delay to pack in too many compliments ... until the evening before had been told to take it calmly, without haste or anxiety, but a series of text messages that warn of bad weather forecast for Sunday, we did change their minds quickly.
New Plan: fugone!
In the end, we spent the night in tents, the adhesive patch and we have them and the "elephants" are sleeping off the hangover ... what to do with them yet?

We enjoy a few moments for the first signs of revival of the pit, with bike lying on the ground, including vomiting and ... other fluids.
then arranging for the departure is pretty fast.
Skin stays there to fight with the lighting of the Bonnie Scout while Kappa and Sl4sh you wear on the way to tie your luggage to their motorcycles.

Near us there is a forlorn-looking motorcycle with a BMW R1100RS rather battered front and spattered with mud ... typical signs of a fall ... At first we think of a "smart" owner who has bitten off more than you can chew walking around in the snow pit ...
actually find that it is not so ...
And 'he who approaches us is a biker forum member Tingavert.it, left alone by his teammates, who asks us to help get closer to Monaco. He does not know the road and hit but also a bit 'angry as happened the night before seems to have slipped on the ice a few miles from the rally.

We welcome relief in the hills four and we throw ourselves on the highway as soon as possible: the plan for the return does not include discounts.
The miles pass: do quick stop for petrol, plus a fix for a chemical warmer a bit 'exuberance that are trying to burn a hand in Kappa ... :-)

The weather, fortunately, even now are decent.
However, the sun can not be seen and the sky is of that "gray-snow" that does not bode well ...

After about 100 km of highway can not we have more. Luckily on the way back we use the "shortcut" way to circumvent state Monaco ... definitely better.
The road cuts through ice and snow fields and pay attention to the center lines frozen. In short reach and then again Taufkirchen Rosehneim
It 's just the time to make a nice break! It's cold and we're hungry ...


We go into town and we throw in the coffee that comes first. There is
of luck: the local community is comfortable and nice and we can eat something warm.
Perhaps this is also a bit to dissolve 'the Biemwuista that tells us about his adventure in more detail ... the atmosphere is peaceful, friendly, even if the other customers look at us with a mixture of curiosity and enough ... ah! these bikers ... :-)

We look to the house where the sky gets very dark: not bode well, but we can not help but be transported.
We come back and we are swallowed up by the highway traffic in a queue that never seems to end. In this way is not easy to stand together and soon we detach from each other. Fortunately the road is simple: straight!

We are now at the Brenner. The friend Biemwuista we "lost" for a while '. From the corner of the eye had seen entering a motorway in Austria, because it was behind us, we have not had a chance to say goodbye ...
It's cold, very cold, but at least it does not snow and not rains.
slows the pace, the road surface is covered with salt and visibility is not optimal. Once in Bressanone
instead awaits an incredible blue sky and a blinding sun literally!
But we're back in Italy and the worst seems past. We find ourselves in yet
all roadside restaurants for a refreshment stop.


Elephants Meet other Italians, is strong evidence from the trip, as we do. In a Sicilian group stands alone in riding a Guzzi California II and tessellated with high wing, very nice and polite.
get coffee, which gives us him as tall and dates of goodies he tries in vain to recover from its Storage. We, in return, we offer a sip of brandy.
must arrive to catch the ferry to Livorno, then aggregates.
We share together, but unfortunately we lose it almost immediately, thanks to yet another queue that California can not dribble as easily as our bikes. It 'was a very nice beginners between the Elephant ... shame to have missed it ...

joints near Verona divide us. Kappa and Skin opt for Cisa: reports from home snow is expected in Piacenza in the hinterland of Genoa.
Sl4sh other hand, is much closer to home and with no great difficulty to reach the A4.

Greetings, hugs and kisses, happy for the experience!
Leather
near Mantua starting to show signs of slowing ... Along with Kappa decide for a refreshment stop at a motorway service station Fini ... are 20.30 and still claim the stomach.
The two are beginning to fear of not being able to get home in the evening and to be a little tired ...
But after putting a new set of chemical warmers share equally in the direction of Parma, and it remains to be seen whether the Cisa Pass is feasible.
A1: salt scattered everywhere now makes them seem more like anchovies typical of Genoese maritime tradition that the bikers ... :-)
threatening light panels show a peremptory tone upcoming snow ... We would like to teleport to extricate by quell'impiccio! In Parma
turn for the A15 ... now the panels are more "reassuring" fog signal only between Fornovo and Pontremoli, a great distance, I must say ...
with bated breath our entering the fog bank ... is dense and reduces any noise, do not see anything beyond 20 meters and the speed is reduced drastically: 40, 50 km / h, not more.
Climb in the third.
The traffic is almost nonexistent.
Two motorcyclists in the fog that face the mountain: the true finale of this adventure. However
everything goes quiet and exceeded the top of the fog clears.

skin is destroyed but you can not stop now ... are the last 100 km!
In Liguria the situation is better, chemical warmers are still their duty and traveling very well ... At 00.30
finally come to the highway where the board last effort - the most difficult:-D - is the very high price to pay toll of 35 € ...

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

What Is The Best Jing Gong Sniper Rifle

Chronicle - 2 Day

We wake up early in the morning to continue the journey and go to a decent time.
The goal is to reach the Pit as soon as possible, perhaps to lunch time, so as to still find a decent place to pitch a tent, but not before taking advantage of the abundant breakfast, with skin that gives proteins of porcine origin in full throttle ... :-)

The start, however, is a little broken: Leather and quarrels with the usual loss of oil and tries to convince Bonnie Scout to light, almost by accident Sl4sh realize that soon would risk losing the gear lever, the screw spanatura cause slight restraint. All the while
Kappa realizes no longer find a liner glove and begins to open all the bags on the bike already bound, scattering the baggage throughout the courtyard ... only to realize that was left inside the glove ... :-)
Despite all this, we can still leave a good time ...

Given that the way to go is no longer and so the weather there allows it, we decided to completely avoid the highways.
The air feels colder than the day before, the meadows are covered with snow and many of the streams that pass are completely covered with ice and snow!
It 'time to test the chemical warmers to put the gloves ... Aaah, that lust!!
We shall never thank the holy Decathlon and suggestions found on the internet!

The state highways, a very nice road with ups and downs with soft curves to be tackled at high speeds and with just a wisp of gas.
now missing a few kilometers Passau ... the goal is to close the first signs sprout

drawn a pink elephant but strangely can not see more riders ... It 'weird, the day before were everywhere and now a few miles from the finish do not see ...

The road is gradually gaining more and more small fee ... instead of snow there is less and less ... We understand that you have caught the vintage lucky! We get to

Solla, in the country, now we see that there is something going!
we are greeted by a group of local bikers, dressed in motorcycle leathers and strange ... our eyes are happy and smiling.
drive along the road leading up to the hole all'Elefantenstrasse, the "way" of entry to the event.
WE ARRIVED!!

The banner photo is often seen in In front of our eyes!

"53 Jahre Elefantentreffen"


leave the bikes on the road that faces the entrance to the pit without addentraci. The space already in short supply and we're a little confused: do not know what to do, there is no welcoming committee ...
We pay the entry: brochures, ID bracelet, nameplate annual remembrance and adhesive to the patch of metal - 20 €.
good start ... plus the patch of cloth is to pay € 5 more, but how can you not get it? ;-) Oh well, now we are here, we're revved up and we want to enter.

Impact is staggering: the meeting has the appearance of a pit of hell. We wander in the upper part of the field looking for a decent mall where our tent. The areas most
pianegganti but all are already occupied, so we end up giving up and almost camp down. Moreover

as minutes pass free space is running out even more.
We are a bit 'worried how the hell are we going to sleep with the tent in that position?

Slowly we organize. Retrieved the luggage left on the bikes, leather takes the Scout Bonnie and jumps to the nearest village to retrieve the straw: here they had already finished (! And it was only Friday!).

Meanwhile Kappa and Sl4sh think putting up your tent and procuring food. More or less we are placed ... unfortunate that there was a straw just enough to make the fund for the tent and then we do not know exactly where to sit.
The sun begins to decline. Of the three Sl4sh
only has a little cold, maybe it is the most slender of all ... :-) (Or is that stupid and took off his overpants ... NdSl4sh)

lit the fire and we eat some sandwiches, supermercatino recovered in the one of the country, before the "elephants" would end to rob .. .
those around us is wanted with the grilling, but we do not have any piece of meat to cook (but not the grid for that matter ..) nor do the potatoes on the grill ... We have just a couple of bags of rice Knorr and a camp stove. But it will be more than enough, really.


Around us is a delusion ... Germans already ubriachissimi, an Italian couple who, like us, you own business, a group of Czechs Pirates with 60 smarmittati scooters that break a little more because the bales of drunken Germans ...

But all in all it's fun watching them, seem at ease ...
And what about the cast of characters around the pit, the strangest we've ever seen! Not to mention their motorcycles! The most absurd things!
By now the sun went down, we sit quietly, between the rice with mushrooms and a (slightly) warm, a round of Grappa and one of Punt & Mes and orange juice (adult taste :-)) ...
we enjoy the natural fireworks display of rockets fired from various tents of the camp.

An old crank siren driven by someone every 30 minutes marks the passing of time.
The fires are a sight to behold ... from our position we will have counted at least eighty .. really impressive!


At 22.30 we realize that it's time to try to lie down in a tent for a nap ...
The fatigue of the journey begins to bite, and then the casino is somewhat diminished ... are all too drunk now ... virtually ko ...

All but our neighbor who likes to make Pirate casino with his scooter, not without having an enclosed at least a couple of times due to its strong coordination, obviously helped by the alcohol ...

However, we enter into the tent - clothes, of course, it's cold, but not so much ... we are well covered and good or bad, we fall asleep after half an hour ...

Monday, February 2, 2009

Pokemon Sprite Building

chronicle of the trip - Day 1 The

Thursday, January 29.
7 hours of the morning.
The enthusiasm is sky high!
We are about to leave for the 53rd edition dell'Elefantentreffen!

Kappa and leather come together before the windows of Motoman, Chiavari.
The classic picture of the ritual, you are ready, hand, but ... No, the rain of Kappa now has a place. But in
trunk there is nothing ...
Start a tough fight with Storage - 30 minutes of battle will be resolved with the abandonment of the poor in the border closest pair of slippers. Just came in there ... This disorganization will become its constant for all 3 days ... :-)

Go!
The day is beautiful, the mood is at its maximum, the engine runs well, we're on the 120 km / h...ma few kilometers later we now expect our first "Brenner." And 'the A7 motorway. We get to
Busalla and we seem to already be in Germany ... fog, snow, salt-covered roads ... is chilly, but we toned!
Thoughts begin to wander in the mind and also the first rise fears, fueled by Bonnie Scout Skin "inexplicably" enters already in the reserve ... mystery ... will be long until Solla!
The situation is complicated by a fog of panic - that will take us up to Brescia - because of which the speed drops dramatically: Kappa visibility problems ... will dispose of your mask fog probably set wrong from the start ...


Sl4sh In Brescia, there to await the Ligurian, looking fresh from Legnano because the road was a godsend and a little worried about the delay after hearing horrific stories from other elephants A7 been there just before .

But now we're all here!

The adventure has officially begun! New full-
Scout Bonnie and go!
No wait, there's a perditina ...



Besides, "the shoemaker goes with broken shoes and leather, which is a Triumph mechanic, so you have more fun ;-)





On the way we meet several other "elephants" are traveling to Solla and is nice to note that the Transalp is recognized because " I saw on the Internet by typing in a search engine Elefantentreffen the word! Power of the Net!
It 'always nice to feel part of the great family of bikers ... all with the same goal! And we were still over 500 km from the finish!


The journey continues quiet and "comfortable" until true Brenner.
8 ° C and sun ... What you want?



Let our stops to get gas, coffee, adjust the Scout Bonnie pissing oil yet, buy the sticker for the Austrian motorway ... all too regular.


crossed the Alps, the sky becomes cloudy and the temperature drops, but it is still bearable. For the moment it's chemical warmers are still in storage ...

bikers on the road more and more ... and we have inside us too!

Many stop at a motorway in Austria where it seems compulsory to have a snack with a nice wusterone and beer. How could tiraci back?


Almost without realizing it, After a few kilometers are in Germany.
There is no toll to pay ... better!

arrive in Rosenheim and decide to abandon the boring highway, as the weather and time will allow.
This would have also given the advantage to cut a long way and especially stay away from the chaotic traffic of Monaco. So, why not?

While we Sl4sh city begins to stir and to indicate something ...
But it is the local branch of the online shopping mecca for motorcyclists Louis.de!
E 'then the obligatory pilgrimage to the shop. We take the opportunity to warm even a little bit more coolness starts to ...
front of every gift of God holds forth the possibility of having a shop in Italy as well ... fantasize a bit and reassembled in the saddle ...

After a few kilometers we decide that it is appropriate to find accommodation for the night. Without effort we find almost immediately a very nice and welcoming Gasthof spend the night for € 30 per person with breakfast and shared bathroom.

hot shower for all! It takes. But after
Kappa turned on the floor of the room all the luggage you realize you have not brought any spare underwear ... ouch ouch ouch ...

Dinner with abundant liters of German beer and Radler, so loved by Kappa Sl4sh. 22 to begin to drop his eyelids and go back to our rooms for a peaceful and refreshing night's sleep ...