Kicking things off

This blog documents the life and times of serial hobbyist Adam Gong. And maybe Michael Follen if he decides to don the title of Hobbylord. 

Being a serial hobbyist means that variety is the spice of your life and so you spend much if not all of your free time in the pursuit of whatever pass time tickles your fancy. To date I have had more than a few pursuits and here is a short list of the highlights: 
- hiking and camping 
- motorcycle building 
- motorcycle racing 
- motorcycle touring 
- tattooing 
- gaming 
- rock climbing 
- surfing 
- cooking and baking 
.... prob more, but i dont recall. 
James Quinn prob will though. 

Anyway this blog is here to document the various exploits that occur between the hours where I'm not working or sleeping, focusing mostly on the crafts and handy things because thats fun to document. 

Currently the task at hand is fixing a surf board that got destroyed thanks to the Santa Ana winds of Dec 2020, a cliff and a stack of rocks at the bottom of said cliff. 


More to come...

~AG

Comments

  1. Hannah Eden Gong TTTJanuary 11, 2021 at 1:49 PM

    Great post! Thanks for the tips, we will def use this to mend our SUP in the future.

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