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Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 08, 2015, 21:52:09 PMThought you were on your second honeymoon why are you on here breaking my chops ....and yes your wife is such a sweetie........when she comes here for a visit I have more of the fudge just for her.......lol....
Posted by greenbarn
- August 08, 2015, 20:07:34 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on August 06, 2015, 15:36:28 PMWell, first of all, Logan is obviously a better model than you are.... Looks pretty sharp in his 'coon skin hat and goggles...Now for all you people who beat me up over the auction at Drift In and for making a big deal about the Minion goggles and why I wanted them so bad please look at the pictures below and then I'll accept your apologies for think ill of me........and Stephen I really hope you are getting a lot of use or viewing use of the leather vest I bid on in your behalf.....now you just need to buy her the chaps.......lol.....
I am in the first picture with the goggles ok....
on the ride home I found a place selling Danial Boone coon skin fur hats and bought one....and with the goggles ...
Second of all, that's definitely an example of a thorn between roses in that first picture, ain't it?
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 06, 2015, 15:36:28 PMNow for all you people who beat me up over the auction at Drift In and for making a big deal about the Minion goggles and why I wanted them so bad please look at the pictures below and then I'll accept your apologies for think ill of me........and Stephen I really hope you are getting a lot of use or viewing use of the leather vest I bid on in your behalf.....now you just need to buy her the chaps.......lol.....
I am in the first picture with the goggles ok....
on the ride home I found a place selling Danial Boone coon skin fur hats and bought one....and with the goggles ...
Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 04, 2015, 07:42:38 AMzig, when I was in CO I went to were they filmed the movie Sacketts.....so there.....lol......When I was riding along some of the back roads and side way places in TN I was thinking of the boys walking those trails and the far Blue Mountains.......Cumberland Gap....is also a reason to ride that way because he mentions it so often......
Posted by zig
- August 04, 2015, 06:18:39 AMQuote from: CDNRatMan on August 03, 2015, 21:28:46 PMgot to visit the Cumberland Gap were the Sackett's of Louis L'Amour fame lived and thrived from.
Love the Louis L'Amour reference! My trip out west, I kept thinking this must be what Mr. L'Amour was seeing while writing those books. But I thought if I mentioned that, no one would know what I was talking about.
Posted by greenbarn
- August 03, 2015, 21:57:16 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on August 03, 2015, 21:28:46 PMlike the 2 wingers on the ferry from Wolfe Island to Kingston who treated me like a leaper, but that was fine by me.
It was probably that chinese pony tail thingy on your helmet, don't you know....
Glad to hear you got home safely, and happy to hear you had a good time.Posted by CDNRatMan
- August 03, 2015, 21:28:46 PM Well my trip is over Drift In 15 is done and I am now home. After 4,852.8 kms or 3,015.39012 miles, two countries, one province, 10 states and 2 ferries to make it a round trip, time to do the math and see what I actually spent and what I did with the money. But it will never pay for the fantastic time I had, the fantastic people I met and the fun I had. That includes seeing all the accidents, some wonderful individual in the state of Maryland making my load on the motorcycle lighter I lightened my internal load at a rest area. There is a number of people who made this trip a very memorable one and made it so much fun, but if I name them I am sure to miss one person and then I will hurt someone's feelings so better to just say thanks to everyone who I met and talking to. I got to take a few must do for a biker rides off my bucket list, Moonshiners 28, Tail of the Dragon 129, got to visit the Cumberland Gap were the Sackett's of Louis L'Amour fame lived and thrived from.
I met more people on bikes that were super cool, and some like the 2 wingers on the ferry from Wolfe Island to Kingston who treated me like a leaper, but that was fine by me. Meeting a Drifter rider in the Shenandoah National Park, Sky Line Drive who was from Toronto, like 4 hours south of me here in North Bay.....who would have thought it. Got to met a bunch of Drifter riders and some who I have known a long time but only on the forum, and then my fellow Canadian Drifter riders from Windsor and Arnprior....lol....what a fun ride it has been. So to move forward.
I now have packing and unpacking my bike to an art, but I do like the little trailer I saw behind a members bike, time to check into one of them puppies. Also time to start to plan next summer's trips and ideas over the winter, I have a fall ride planned and want to do P.E.I. yet before I am to old to ride so plans are in the works now......
So to any and all who made my ride a fun one thanks and for those of you who were there fantastic and Ron and Heidi, much thanks to both of you for all your work......
Posted by CDNRatMan
- July 28, 2015, 19:21:04 PMsome more picture taken by Kim
Posted by 49Reo
- July 28, 2015, 17:31:55 PMCool trailer. Wonder of he made that?
Posted by Troll
- July 27, 2015, 08:35:44 AMMade it home Sunday night at 21:00....847 miles in one day from Clinton, TN to LaCrosse, WI....I always said this was a 1,000 mile a day bike...Didn't quite make the 100,000 mile mark, though...next week! Came across this in a rest area in Illinois....
Posted by CDNRatMan
- July 25, 2015, 23:11:26 PMOh forgot to mention that the Landmark was also home to a mess of people who were in the area doing work thing like working on the motel, working in the local area, the first night, Sunday a bunch were already there and the power went out and the motel was emptid for these folks to go and do something or other........but that truck did have lots of wood chips for gardens.
Posted by DC
- July 25, 2015, 22:46:17 PMSo who brought their bike in the Asplundh truck? 
. . . . . and how did you get it in there with the truck being so high up?
Posted by CDNRatMan
- July 25, 2015, 19:30:32 PMThanks Troll......
"L" stop walking the killer hound.....
Ok so Drift - In 2015 is over and done and in the books. I would like to make a few comments while things are fresh in my mind and I am able to remember it.
Anyone following along this thread knows what has happened and who is who and since this started I have met some super people. Please forgive me if I do not mention you or forgot you but I will try not to.......
aralph in Windsor, and we will go to the Biker Reunion next summer....the GreenBarns, not enough can be said about how they treated me and welcomed me into their home. I will not go farther then saying that Dawn was a hoot at all the gatherings and she just brought the sun shining even with stories about the family GB was trying to hide. The staff at the Landmark in were awesome and really did credit to the place. I personally owe a huge debt to Tom for the welding job on my broken luggage rack, the Kawasaki shop in Pikeville is outstanding and a super place to deal with, they opened special a couple times when needed and took such good care of us.
To see the Guru Troll working on other people's bikes to help them out. PC, Pastor Dude, I met a person at Drift In and he spent a lot of time with me, oh yes he is also a Pastor.....not sure if the good did wear off.
Mostly I think that Dancing Bear and his fantastic wife Dimples did such a fantastic job, they humped their bbuns for this and the work involved was a lot.
It was mentioned a number of times that the VDOG people from both this forum and the Delphi are not bikers, bike riders, or members of a forum, but we are family.
Ok I have a few more pictures to post and after the Tail of the Dragon ride and the Moonshiner ride today I'll get them up to prove that Troll did do the ride.....lol
Posted by Troll
- July 25, 2015, 19:21:44 PMBecause, as we all know, if there are no pictures, it didn't happen......
Posted by DriftinGirl
- July 25, 2015, 19:15:28 PMGREAT PICS!! In 2016 I shall not break my leg.