This is a very strange Memorial Day Weelemd for me. Usually it would be spent with the family, but this year it was different. Spending it with a bunch Veterans and just visiting. It was very different from my expectation. The people I was with were all in Vietnam about the same time a I was, and though I expected to hear war stories and rememberances, but to my surprise it was just good ol'neighborly talk. Probably because on the Ride here we were way to exhausted to waste in on War Stories.
I made new friends and enjoyed the various converstations I was in. Also spending the Memorial Day in the Nations Capital much more humbling than a patio in Rancho Cucamonga though I wish I was there this evening. Alas Tomorrow I get to start my leasurely meandering south toward South Carolina on a couple of the best motorcycle road in the U.S. Skyline Drive (shennadoah NP) and Blue Ridge Parkway. Last year I rode a small portion of the BRP and am looking forward to some rocking chair curves and use some of my sidewalls rather than the flat spot on the bottom, signifying the National Interstate roads I've traveled to here so far. So this Memorial Day is much more solemn and intospective tonight. LIFE IS GOOD
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Jim Hall
6/7/2013 12:36:07 pm
I'm not sure where you are at this moment but I hope you are having a more pleasant ride home than you did heading east. Above all, stay safe my friend, and we'll catch up when you get back.
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June 2013
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