Doc Rogers

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Engineering
Occupation Mining Engineer/Professor/Consultant
Location Buchanan, VA, United States
Introduction Mining and Geological Engineer, Professor, Consultant, and spoiler of two Chocolate Labs named Theo & Teddy (both after Theodore Roosevelt). I've lived on both sides of this great nation, though I was raised and grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. I currently reside in Virginia, love the mid-Atlantic region, as well as the Low Country of South Carolina, and the northeast corner of Wyoming. I am currently riding a 1977 BMW R100S and modifying a 2011 Ural Gear Up (Gobi Desert) for enhanced on and off-road riding.
Interests BMW Motorcycles, Shooting, Flat Fender Willys-Overland Jeeps, Chocolate Labs, Hunting, Sled Dogs, Scheutzen Competition, Reloading, Sculpting, Swimming/Boating, Underground Photography, Cooking, Logging & Mining Railroads, Banjos, Military Vehicles, Lobster Boats and Tugs, Mine/Tunnel & Underground Lore, Old Water Mills, Hiking/Camping, Fast Convertibles & Slow Women (or was that the other way around?), Tossing Horseshoes, Country Living, Big southern porches with blue ceilings, porch swings, lightning bugs, and old bourbon ... not necessarily in that order. :)
Favorite Movies Zulu, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape, Open Range, An Affair to Remember, The Big Country, August Rush, The Birds, The Trouble with Harry, Restoration, The Sand Pebbles
Favorite Music 60's Rock, 50's Malt Shop, Bach, Bagpipes, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, American Folk
Favorite Books Rudyard Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads, King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, The Washing of the Spears by Morris, The Modern Schuetzen Rifle by Charlie Dell, African Game Trails by Roosevelt, Complete Works of Sir Samuel White Baker, The Martini Henry Rifle by Skennerton, The Zulu War by various authors, The Cowgirl Art of Donna Howell Sickles, Lobster Boats by various authors, Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, The Shirley Letters from the California Gold Mines by Knapp, Leanings books by Egan.