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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Reply - May 22, 2019 - 06:18am PT
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About ready to move out. Almost done cleaning up-hope the landlord doesn't stiff me on my damage deposit
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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May 22, 2019 - 07:21pm PT
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Don't do drugs
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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May 22, 2019 - 08:18pm PT
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Robb,
There hardly seems to be anything better than driving a fast car in the desert at dawn. As a young man I did that in a souped up 65 corvette heading to White Sands to train in how to shoot missiles.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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May 22, 2019 - 08:46pm PT
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The stories reminded me of one of my own.
Coming home from Viet Nam, I found my parents had moved to Waukesha. I met a girl that was my opposite, a butterfly that simply went from flower to flower. I fell in love. How magical it was, until I realized that I had a serious bone in my body. God, we did many drugs.
I bought an old VW wagon from a farmer without windows on the side. It was painted dirt brown with a brush, with a small painting of ducks taking off from a marsh way in the back on the bus. I ripped out the back seat, insulated, panelled, put an 8-track stereo throughout, and laid red shag carpet on the floor in the floor. (I have much better aesthetics these days.)
We'd start from Waukesha and drive down Bluemound to Wisconsin Avenue into Milwaukee and pick-up as many young hitchhikers as we could. In those days, you saw many counter-cultural types hitchhiking. We usually picked-up 5-10 of them. We'd get everyone stoned and dropped them off downtown. It was so funny when we opened the sliding door and all this music and smoke would bust out. God, we laughed and laughed. 10 of us mindless--with Steve Miller, Ten Years After, Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Santana, Melanie, Janis, Mountain, Sly, The Who, & CSN&Y.
Least, that's what I remember (but at this age, who knows)?
God bless my ex-wife.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 22, 2019 - 10:36pm PT
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MikeL
I would not have known you were a rocker
But get some Ry Cooder in your repertoire
And Sam Fish
I drove my 280z up 395 around 2:00 am a couple times when the speedometer said 140 mph
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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May 23, 2019 - 06:14am PT
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Z,
I followed my ex-wife's lead. She turned me on to all that was current in 1969. I didn't know anything about what was going on. I came to love all those bands. Almost went to Woodstock on a BSA, but from Oklahoma, it looked too far away. Later I caught up with Ry Cooder, Little Feat, JJ Cale, etc. I got into the whole anti-war thing when I fell in with combat vets. I learned about the history of vietnam, and then got mad at our country. After Kent State, things seemed to go black for me. I became an angry young man. Some say that PTSD has a halflife of 15 years, and it took me that long to realize I had been damaged. Music was sort of a therapy for me before "the awakening" happened to me (a breakdown) at that 15 year mark. I even helped to start and run a booking agency for rock n' roll bands in Wisconsin. That was a crazy business. (Get this: we passed on Cheap Trick at one point. Stoopid.)
140!! You are a dangerous man.
Hobo_dan,
Take out the side windows, and that could have been the model of our little van. I shouldn't have sold it, I guess. But then I traded the corvette for a chopper. Again, stoopid.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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May 23, 2019 - 07:27am PT
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Good stuff MikeL
TFPU
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