Hi Marty, and all,
LOL, I fall far short of any chance to be maessured with Job, but I do get strength for reading that and many other parts of scripture. Job sure was a cut above the rest. I have run into some friends (not) that expressed the same type of negitive notions. I just let them go, although some are easier to let go than others. LOL What's really hard for me is the deaths of folks that have become my shipmates on this cruze to distruction. Just lost 2 more, Jill, last week and David this past Tuesday. It was clear that Jill was very sick, but I can say that David to me looked to be in the fight for a while. However, that's not how it folded out.
Last year I had a very had day trying to sory out why her and not me. A friend with cancer named Linda had cancer, we both ended up in the hospital at the same time, different hospitals but we kept up on each others reports and wished each other wishes of wellness often. This hospital visit was so different, I went home after a week of so and Linda died during the same time frame. Life is short, you've got to grab it with both hand and hang on, because Life is really not a friend and certainly not our best friend, life will leave you high and dry in many cases without even a moments notice. So hold on tight my friends as tight as you can and your chances maybe get better, but my hopes for all of you are that you live long and proper and one day you can finally sit in a rocking chair on a porch and see and hear the harley ride by and by doing so your head will be re-filled with all the wonder expiriences you have had on two wheels.
And as usual it is great to hear from you Marty and so many of the other and we too are looking forward to the time we will all have to be together once again at Maggie Valley and the beautiful surrounding area. I am excited to have Sue meet you all. She will then know why I brag about the friends I have made here with CVO at the purpose, but it is the excitement of the road on two wheels that bring us together and the open heart and willingness that we all share especially for the like minded folks. We all have been raised and grew up with close folks around and some are very close still, but it is some kink of special gift that we were born in a time where we could meet folks from all over. What a blessing and now we are comeing together again to get the reward that comes only to the truest of friends.
I can't wait to see to again my friends and I can't wait to have my wife to meet you ya'll.
And as stated above, I am looking forward to showing in living color the beuty of the Blueridge Mountains.
I hope this special ride south, for sights, sounds, smells of all the people and the beuty of the Mountains (LOL) I hope it all eches a memory in her heart and mind as it does for me. I'm telling you sometimes I could sware that this runs through my viens. It would be a very wealthy person that could put it in an IV bag to give instead of chemo. My bet, it would bring a smile and a happy heart and probably the cancer would have no room left in the host. Come to think of it I hate being reffered to as the Host. That's just wrong.
anyway, see you all soon. We'll
pull anchor here Sat morn with temps around the low 40's and meet up with some along the way (PA and VA) and plan to explore the many choices of roads for the slow ride and all pull into MV on Wednesday sometime.
till then
Have a safe and enjoyable ride to MV too
your friend
Sam