Odessa Don and Archibald the Grim

Remember that yellow P-51 I showed you guys a little while ago?   Well, she’s complete now, and wowee!

That is one beautiful bike, and if you guessed it was heading to Texas, you’d be right! Odessa, actually, and that gorgeous motorcycle is going to our good buddy Don (hence the name: Odessa Don).

Odessa Don.   I like it.   And if you like cool names, check this out, boys and girls…

Built in the 1200s (yep, 800 years ago) what you’re looking at is Bothwell Castle, right in the town where I’m staying this week.  And the owner of this old castle back then?   Well, he sounds like he was an interesting character.  I guess all those old Scots had cool names…the owner of this fixer-upper carried the moniker of Archibald the Grim.   Now that, my friends, is quite a name…and we can only guess at the circumstances leading to its creation.  It makes me wonder what names we would stick on ourselves if we used the ancient Scottish naming practices….Joe the Joker?   Steve the Steadfast?  Lupe the Lovely?   TK the Terrible?   Aye, we could have a lot of fun with this…

Later, me friends!