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REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP PREVENT OVARIAN CANCER.
CHECK OUT WWW. PERIMETERRUN.INFO AND SEND A DONATION TO THE GAIL PURTAN FUND AT KARMANOS HOSPITAL. PUT "IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK.
It has been quite a while since I wrote here. Here it is the end of 2011. I have a new "ride" planned, and I hope to complete it within the next couple of ...
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| How hard it is to explain the feelings I am having, sitting here in my home, one year after making the journey of a lifetime. I review the journal entries and the photos that I took on the trip. I remember the kindness of strangers, who were not strangers for long. I remember the sometimes tedius miles in the rains of the Northeast, or the oppressive heat of the Southwest. It calls to me still. The road during the 86 days I was gone was sometimes so black that it was indistinguishable from the surroundings. It was sometimes so white ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 31, 2006 - "Where is the highway tonight?Where are those old days and crazy nights?" Neal Young One week ago, at 3:18 PM, I pulled into my driveway after making the trip around the edge of the United States. One week ago, I shut the engine off. One week ago I crawled off of that motorcycle for the four billionth time (it seems). I did ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 27, 2006 - "WALK THIS WAY, TALK THIS WAY…" This morning the rain could be heard hitting the roof of the house and it was not a soft "romantic" type of rain. This was a let's get everything soaked kind of rain. It didn't let up as we drove toward the Detroit Zoo. We would be performing in the rain today. I ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 25, 2006 - "WE'RE SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, WE HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED THE SHOW…" It was interesting waking up to a telephone call from my brother at 5:30 this morning. He hasn't had a computer for a few weeks and still thought I was somewhere in a distant time zone. He really felt bad about waking me up, but that just ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/last_day_on_the_road.jpg">AT THE BELLA VISTA IN CASEVILLE. THE LAST TIME I WILL HAVE TO PACK THE BIKE AND TRAILER. IT IS SOMEWHATOF A RELIEF AS WELL AS A BIT SAD. THE RUN, THE RIDE OF THE SUMMER IS ALMOST COMPLETED. IT IS BOTHA TIME OF CELEBRATION AND A TIME TO MOURN./images/13222-12673/EARLY_MORN_ROUTE_25_S_OF_CASEVILLE.jpg">THE DAY IS GRAY BUT THE LAKE TO MY LEFT IS STILL TRYING TO BE UPBEAT BY DISPLAYING ITS BEAUTIFULCOLOR, ALTHOUGH A BIT MORE SUBDUED./images/13222-12673/THE_SKY_BEGINS_TO_TURN.jpg">THE SKY BEGAN TO LOOK REALLY THREATENING NORTH OF LEXINGTON. IT HAS ITS OWN OMINOUS BEAUTY ABOUTIT./images/13222-12673/LAKE_HURON.jpg">I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF LOOKING AT THESE WONDERFUL LAKES AS ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO:GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 482011-800-527-6266"IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 24, 2006 - "LET THE CIRCLE, BE UNBROKEN, BY AND BY; LORD, BY AND BY…" I left my home at 4:00 AM on June 1st with the odometer reading 14,620 miles. Today, at 3:28 PM, I broke the "finish line" ribbon strung across my driveway by my friends, with 16,152 more miles on the clock. In that time, I had traveled through 33 States, ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/COLOR_CHANGE_IN_THE_LOWER.jpg">JUST AS THE UPPER PENINSULA DID, THE LOWER PENINSULA REMINDED US THAT FALL IS FAST APPROACHING.HERE'S THE FIRST HINT./images/13222-12673/ROUTE_119.jpg">EVEN ON THIS CLOUDY OVERCAST MORNING, ROUTE 119 IS A VERY PRETTY DRIVE. NOTE THAT THE ROAD IS NOTWIDE ENOUGH TO PAINT A CENTER STRIPE. "NARROW ROAD NEXT 19 MILES" WAS POSTED WHEN WE FIRST GOT ON THIS SECTION./images/13222-12673/FROM_119_TOO.jpg">ANOTHER VIEW OF MICHIGAN'S NORTH FROM ROUTE 119/images/13222-12673/FROM_119.jpg">AND ANOTHER OF THE BAY FROM ROUTE 119 /images/13222-12673/CROSS_VILLAGE_REPAIR_SHOP.jpg">DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE MOVIE "STAND BY ME"? THESE TWO CAME PEDDLING UP TO THE GAS STATIONWHILE WE WERE THERE. WHEN BOB AND I WERE ... |
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| REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN HELP COMBAT OVARIAN CANCER CHECKS TO: GAIL PURTAN FUND KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE 4100 JOHN R DETROIT, MI 48201 1-800-527-6266 "IN MEMORY OF MARY LOGSDON" - IN NOTE SECTION OF CHECK AUGUST 23, 2006 – “YES THEY’LL ALL COME TO MEET ME, ARMS REACHING, SMILING SWEETLY; IT’S GOOD TO TOUCH THE GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME…” 336 miles of extremely wet road between Harry and Connie Oster’s place and the Bella Vista Inn, located in Caseville, ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/BOB_ok_after_the_accident.jpg">BOB IS OK AND LOOKING GOOD AFTER VISITING THE HOSPITAL ER. /images/13222-12673/SOME_BIKE_DAMAGE.jpg">SOME OF THE DAMAGE (WHITE AREAS ALONG THE TRUNK AND SEAT) EVIDENT ON BOB'S BIKE. ALL REPAIRABLESTUFF. HIS WOUNDS LOOK MUCH BETTER TONIGHT THAN THEY DID EARLIER TODAY./images/13222-12673/TRAILER_DAMAGE.jpg">DRIVER SIDE OF THE TRAILER ABSORBED A LOT OF THE ENERGY OF BOB'S BIKE AS IT SLID DOWN THE ROAD./images/13222-12673/ROAD_DAMAGE.jpg">IT IS EASY TO SEE WHERE THE BIKE SLID ON THE ASPHALT. BOB HAS JUST PACED IT OFF. HE AND THE MACHINE SLID APPROXIMATELY 22' . THE TWO WET SPOTS ARE FROM OIL THATLEAKED OUT OF HIS SIDE CASE./images/13222-12673/MICHIGAN_ORCHARDS.jpg">SOME OF MICHIGAN'S ORCHARDS, NOT ... |
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