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And Wisconsin hunters are upset because they don't think there are ENOUGH deer in the state! Jim, glad you're okay. It was nice meeting you and your wife. Curt
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Cathy was "very good looking", but not a blond and not in choir...but I think I know what blond you're talking about . While I was already out of high school, because Cathy was still in I did go a lot of the activities her and your senior year...football games, basketball games, dances, prom, and the "parties." I'm sure our paths crossed. I'm like you, I don't remember a lot of people from high school, but I do remember a few and I do remember a lot stuff that happened. I think making it a little more difficult to remember is we moved away a few months after the '75 graduation and the closest we've lived since then is 300 miles away. It's interesting going back to Petoskey now. My great-grandparents raised me and after I moved away in '75 they stayed a few more years and then sold their house and moved to Indiana to live out their years with their daughter....so I no longer have relatives up their. These days when I'm there I definitely feel like one of the "fudgies" us locals hated so much (we loved their money though) when I was growing up. But there have been times where I'm out at The Home Depot or Wally World picking something up for my mother-in-law (actually it's more like getting out of her house for a while) and someone will say "excuse me, you look familar, are you from here?" Conversation will get going and it will be someone I went to HS with....not too bad because I don't look anything like I did when I graduated 36 years ago! Now on the other hand though, my wife's mother lives in Oden and she has two brothers living there, one out in the country east of Petoskey and the one she can't stand living in Conway....plus a crapload of aunts, uncles, and cousins in Cheboygan. The class of '75 has had a lot tragedy over the years, much more than my class of '74...Mike Zerimski (spelling) died in a car crash summer of 76, along with several female passengers in his car (also from class 76); Tom Sheltraw drowned shortly after high school; Alex Campbell passed away a few years ago...there were others as well, but those are names I remember well because they were good friends. Talk about thread hijacking...sorry about that guys!
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Class of '74 for me, class of '75 for my wife Cathy . Class of 75 is having 35th reunion this year .. a good friend of mine from high school is one of the organizers; still surprised he's this involved with this considering he barely made it through and out of high school. Trying to get Cathy to attend, but she doesn't want too.
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Will do .. always enjoy riding m119 (but I still remember it as part of m131).
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My hometown, where I grew up, where I graduated from high school .. but haven't lived there in 35 years. Our Venture(s) has been in Petoskey quite a few times but it wasn't ours this time .. Will be over there in July though on the bike for a visit to Cathy's mother in Oden and brother out on the east end of Pickerell Lake. Curt
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My taste in music ranges from Big Band to Acid Rock, and it would take pages and pages list all of the songs I call favorite songs .. but the following are few that haven't been listed already above and are must have on any of the various MP3 players I use (bike, work, car, etc): David Allen Coe .. The Ride, You Never Even Called My Name, & If That Ain't Country Train .. Calling All Angels Nickelback .. Rockstar Three Doors Down .. Kryptonite Montrose .. Bad Motor Scooter Ten Years After .. I'd Love to Change the World Buffalo Springfield .. Bluebird Toby Keith .. Smokin' Weed With Willie & The Taliban Song George Jones .. Amazing Grace & Ol' Red
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Quick note .. Bob Edwards, co-founder of the Venturers (along with Don Nelson), passed away at about 5:30 EST this afternoon. Bob, Good Bless. Curt FJR Rider (aka Concours, President Venturers)
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How much money are we putting into our rides?
FJR Rider replied to Godlover's topic in Watering Hole
If I paid list it would be .. well, let just say I didn't pay list. Now the real problem is putting money into more than one bike -
I want to ask, I want to ask, I want to ask...nope, a kinder gentler soul. ... congrats!!!
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Past 73 Suzuki 185 Enduro 72 Suzuki 550 Lemans 76 Honda CB750F Supersport 82 Suzuki 750 Spectre 95 Kawasaki Concours :) 99 Yamaha Royal Star Venture :) Present 06 Yamaha Royal Star Venture 07 Yamaha FJR
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I am envious .. too much salt and sand still on the roads up here. Saw quite a few out today, but I'll wait a little.
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Dang Caddy drivers, can't trust any of 'em
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That's one of my tentative weekends for another IBA SS1000 or SS1500 .. maybe I could make that a rest stop...as long as you don't mind a dirty FJR parked in the driveway.
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Only if you have really big hands
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You must be related to ZMan (Mark Theis) from up in Wisconsin .. we call him Charlotte De Squeek . The mice turned the inside of his fairing into a condo!