Jeannie wrote on Dec 7th, 2009 at 5:42pm:Sounds like you have had a very interesting life, Mac.
LOL, Others say that, while I think this is just adventure.. I didn't set out to go live in a tee pee, it just happened because I ended up with no place else to go.
My life is like a train wreck, and like any train wreck interesting things happen.
Oct 04, my wife was rear ended in her little ford escort, by a full sized Chevy Blazer. I was at a French and Indian War re-enactment in NY at Lk George. I felt something and left on day 3 of 10, for home, to find the above.
Shortly after that I came down phneumonia, which got to be whooping cough. We had been looking for a first cottage to buy, but it wasn't meant to be. Every place by pen stroke went to be worth more than $100,000.00, and so this little cottage with out so much as a new nail went from $33,000 to $165,000.00 over one night.
While I was sick, and didn't know myself from a head of cabbage, I told my wife a dream I had at 16. That was i wanted to ride a motorcycle across the USA.
When i came back to being me, she told me and was all for the idea, and asked if she could go

I said yeah sure, why not.... SO we did. We packed up the apt and got a bigger bike than I had, while I built a trailer suitable for such a long tour. I even had one back pack of clothing for the year 1805, incase we found a Lewis and Clark event to attend. That was complete with a flint lock rife 52.5 inches long.
Well we made it to Sturgis, and I ended up crashing on Pine Ridge. I believe the trailer jumped the hitch as I have no other way to explain that crash. We were on a loose gravel road, and the rea end suddenly began to slap side to side at 15 mph..
Boom.. down we went an my wife was cut to the bone on her right elbow. I drove my right elbow into my ribs and broke 3 of them.
That caused a lot of little adventures too, but we made it to cali anyway, and then all the way back east. I don't believe in maps much, so back east ended in Fla.. I got lost after that and ended up in Arkansas.
Probably I am the only rider to crash halfway across the country then to ride it broken and back again, but that's what we did.
Got clusters in Ar too, and had no way to deal with them but just take what was coming.
My whole life revolves around being out somewhere, doing things and learning things from the past.