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Posted-Date: 29 Jul 92 13:46:45 GMT
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From: parker@gdls.UUCP (The Dougster)
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Subject: Leaving the RCR (short, because I hate to type...)
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:46:45 GMT
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After a brief visit to the place with the cool teepees and
swimming hole, making friends, eating chicken and putting
faces with the sigs, I left at 5:15am on Sunday for 14
hours back to Detroit.

Did I wake anyone up? I pushed the RT away from the tents
before starting 'er up, because it was so early.

The rule for the BRP at 6am is *deer.* A close encounter
of the four legged kind slowed my initial pace of 55mph
back to 40. (For about 10 miles. Then it was back to 55
again.) On the way out I counted 12 Bambi's, zero llamas,
one very tired kitty, and many other very *flat* critters.
In the 12 mile stretch where the *Deer Dancing* signs are
posted, I saw no deer. Go figure.

I got a kick out of the paint stripe across the BRP
indicating the state lines. Was that for real?

I ran out of cash for the WVA Turnpike, so I had to stop and
give them my SSN for an envelope to put a check for $1.25
into and drop it into the mail. Twenty minutes waiting, 29
cent stamp, why couldn't he just say, "Aw forget it. Just
go on through..."

I rode through an *excellent* rain storm in southeast Ohio
that had the cagers slowing to ~45mph. I, in my ignorance,
chose to go 60. Not minimum by any stretch of the imagination
but still impressive considering the conditions. I love
riding through the rain...until it begins to seep through the
inside of my helmet.

After 15,000 to 20,000 miles of riding, I'm beginning to feel
I know what's going on as I'm riding. I mean *know.*

Jon Polito, I've tried to write to you and nothing's come back.
Are you getting my e-mail?

Great weekend! Especially good considering I decided less than
a day before I left that I'd be going. Here's for spontaneity!


Douglas                       Reply to:  gdls!parker@ilium.troy.msen.com
DoD #1961                     BMW #55821                  Renting N56136