20-some years ago, I got to go w/ Dad on a trip to the Oshkosh airshow, spent all week there (selling airplane brake discs, for a friend of my dad's). One day, having worked most of the week, my dad's friend told us to take a day off... so, we jumped in the car and drove from Oshkosh to Sault Ste Marie and back. Spent the night in a place called Thompson, in a cabin on the shore of Michigan... it was late July, and was below 40 that evening. Remember a lot of forest, not a lot else... pretty country, but kinda lonely...
On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:46:30 PM UTC-4, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > Brian formerly of MN makes some salient points about the apocalyptic > weather hereabouts. I rode an Atlantis as my main/only bike for several > years in Minnesota, so it stands to reason that a suitably equipped > Bombadil should be fit for occasional duty in hurricane conditions. > > In case my "Yoopanese" heritage isn't obvious, I grew up in Upper > Michigan, which is justifiably noteworthy for long hard winters and rugged > desolation, and where the "gales of November" were immortalized in a well > known song. I have funny memories of my Grandfather sitting by the wood > stove in his easy chair watching the daily horrors on the evening news. If > some tropical place endured a hurricane or California got shook up by an > earthquake, he'd say "we got it pretty goddamned good here", seemingly > oblivious to the hardship of the 10 feet of snow falling outside the > window, the preceding summer of hard labor in laying in enough firewood to > survive the winter, or the often impassable 60 miles of 2-lane highway > between his house and the nearest grocery store (grocery trips usually > required a week of planning...) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/73VF0HBkdzAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
