Jake & Eddie’s Excellent Adventure 😎🐶 – Two pattern-seeking animals resonating with syncopation to the increasing entropy of the space-time continuum

Bodie Lighthouse ~ Outer Banks, NC

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On May 21, 1838, Florida Territorial delegate Charles Downing requested a lighthouse be built on Cape Canaveral. The first lighthouse completed in Jan. 1848 stood 65-feet tall, had a 55 foot tower and a 10-foot lantern room equipped with 15 lamps on 21-inch reflectors. The brick tower and keeper’s home cost under $13,300. Nathaniel Scobie oversaw construction and appointed the first keeper. With the advent of the Civil War, S. Mallory, Confederate Navy Secretary, ordered Florida east coast lighthouses “extinguished.” Keeper Mills Burnham removed the lamp and buried it in his orange grove. A state-of-the-art, 151-foot iron tower was erected in 1868 and topped with a 1st Order Fresnel lens. The tower’s living quarters were used for storage and a weather station. In 1871 a storm surge washed over the lighthouse area spoiling lamp oil and drinking water. This and shoreline erosion caused the lighthouse to be moved. From Oct. 1893 to Jul. 1894 the tower was dismantled, moved by tram one mile inland and re-erected, along with a 1st and 2nd assistant’s and keeper’s homes, to its present location. In 1939 the Coast Guard took ownership. In 2000 stewardship was transferred to the 45th Space Wing, Patrick Air Force Base.

Dedication by Myhra and Rick to the lighthouse with memorial to Dad

He was a Steely-Eyed Missleman!

This is the home of tubridy.net and my blog

Online since 1998 – a record of my life experiences with my dog, Jake:

Two pattern-seeking animals 🐵 🐶 resonating in syncopation 🥁 to the increasing entropy ⚛ of the space-time continuum ⏱️.
Eddie ~ Just This Guy ~ You Know?

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An Excellent Adventure…

We started traveling in our RV, the Starship Excellent Adventure, in 2021. So far, we have traveled over 30,000 miles and spent about seven months on the road. We have visited national parks and other scenic locations on the West Coast, Rockies, Southwest, and Appalachians. On our latest trip, we visited America’s Heartland.

This year’s trip takes us up the coast to Cape Cod, with stops along the coast and a visit to family in Delaware. From there down through the eastern Appalachians exporing early American history. Finally, we will meet up with family in western Virginia to explore the Horton roots.

Most Excellent!

Life, The Universe and Everything

I developed an interest in photography in college. Since then, I have always traveled with a camera and tried to capture the views in my mind’s eye 👁️. Technology has greatly aided me these days, allowing me to enhance some of the slides I shot up until the 2010s.

I’ve visited 39 countries and all 50 states! I especially love the National Parks.

Underwater photos in the Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific.

YouTube videos starting in the late 2000s…

Music & Drumming

I have had a lifelong passion for music. I was beating on the pots and pans as a kid!

Woodworking

I made my first project in 8th-grade shop class! I’ve made a lot of sawdust since then!

Puppy Dogs

I aspire to be the person my dog thinks I am.

MoonPieTown’s Space Coast

I live in a little beach shack, Valhalla, near the elementary school I went to. I’ve watched them launch rockets into space for over 65 years now!

Family Geneology

I’ve continued the work started by my Dad in discovering our roots.

Rides

My (mostly red 🤩) rides through the years started with the VW Beetle – which I learned to drive on – to the Starship Excellent Adventure!

Snarky Social Commentary

Tubridy.net

Just This Guy

I started my first website as a hobby using the notorious Microsoft FrontPage in the late 1990s. I studied web design at Emory in the late 2000s and became proficient in web programming and graphic skills. I eventually did it full-time when I contracted for IBM in the 2010s. I retired at the end of 2019 as a User Experience Designer who spent over 40 years working in high tech.

This is a hobby for me now. I view it as my legacy since I leave no one behind at the end of the day. You can find other stuff I am interested in or places I have traveled on this site. I will continue to add more until I can’t do it anymore.

Cheers, Jake and Eddie

Jake & Eddie 2023

Riding the wave of increasing entropy in the space-time continuum

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