Fantasy larp with latex foam weapons. An offshoot of this UK fest larp but tiny and only 1 day, no camping.
I live a few hundred feet away from the historic Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge railway. I always wave at the train if I’m in the park when they go by:
(I’m working on some t-shirt designs based on my photos. This is just down the street)
We inherited a Corvette when my father-in-law passed away in 2019. My wife has attempted to instill in me the expectation, in the Corvette community, that if you are driving your Corvette, and you drive past another 'Vette, you’re supposed to wave to the other driver.
My friend and I have a tradition of waving to folks when we’re driving back roads on vacation. Nothing extravagant, just a simple wave. The return rate is usually pretty high, with the folks that appear to be local lifting a (non-middle) finger off the steering wheel. It’s just a simple way of greeting/acknowledgement that makes the day a little bit better.
That used to be the custom of Beetle drivers until VW came out with the new version.
Same for Subarus, at least in Switzerland. But only the sport models.
Also when driving on Islay. I think they take away your scotch glass if you don’t wave.
Unless it’s changed in the past few years, it’s also kind of a thing for rafters to moon the California Zephyr when it runs along the Colorado River. So there’s that, too…
Still a happy tradition, at least in these warmer months. We had considerably more lunar activity in Ruby Canyon below Grand Junction than we did upriver towards Glenwood Springs, which is more populated but less, um, traditional.
I hope there will be pictures.
I’ve known Jeep Wrangler drivers who do the same - or at least they did 25 years ago.
Agreed with the above.
Boating culture encourages people to be friendly, in that boaters are usually really open to offering assistance when needed (in this regard, I find it to be similar to people who are camping).
Part and parcel of that is to wave as you pass each other.
Just got back from our little trip on the Willamette on The Portland Spirit. Good food, nice drinks, and lots of waving to (and from) people on the banks and people on other boats.
C.W. McCall-The Silverton
I’d never heard that song before.
Thanks for the link.
Yep. I owned a Wrangler 25 (and more) years ago, and it was normal to wave at the drivers of other Jeep Wranglers.
You went through Lincoln (Nebraska) and didn’t wave at me? That hurts my feelings.
I’ll let it slide this time since the east bound Zephyr passes through at about 3am and I was no doubt at home, sitting in my skivvies trying to cool off and reading da Dope. On your return, wave out of the left side train windows, that is the side my house is on, about a mile away. That’ll happen about midnight going west. I’ll likely be eating ice cream and yep, reading da Dope.
I’ll wave back at you. I promise no mooning. That would give a full moon a whole new definition.
Hey, maybe if anything, that person might need a wave the most
Boo, if I take the train trip I’ve been thinking of later this year, I be glad to wave in the direction of Lincoln. I’ll be a few hundred miles north, mind, but I’ll wave.
The Empire Builder? That’s on my list for Glacier Park alone. Besides, the further north I go and the colder it gets the happier I am.
Let me know when and I’ll lean out my back porch and wave back!
No, Boo, more like the Canadian. One of my bucket list items: taking a train from Toronto to Vancouver.
Maybe more than a few hundred miles north, but I’ll still wave.