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| BOB PERRY AND MARK LOGSDON WERE INVOLVED IN A MINOR ACCIDENT ON THE BUSINESS LOOP OF ROUTE 31 TODAY JUST OUTSIDE SILVER LAKE STATE PARK. MARK HAD BEEN SLOWING DOWN AND PULLING OFF THE ROAD TO ASSIST TWO BIKERS THAT WERE ON THE ROADSIDE. BOB CAME AROUND THE CORNER AND SEEING A TRUCK IN THE OPPOSING LANE OF TRAFFIC, DID THE SAFEST THING TO DO. APPLYING THE BRAKES AND MAINTAINING DIRECTION HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS GOING TO HIT THE TRAILER. BOB LAID THE BIKE DOWN AND SLID WITH 22' HE SUSTAINED SOME "ROAD RASH" TO HIS PERSON. THE TRAILER ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/SIP.jpg">THE COFFEE SHOP CALLED "SIP" IN KELLY JO'S QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD. /images/13222-12673/SIP.jpg">ANOTHER VIEW OF "SIP", ONE OF THE VERY COOLEST COFFEE SHOPS I HAVE EVER BEEN IN./images/13222-12673/UNDER_THE_EL.jpg">DOWNTOWN CHICAGO UNDER THE EL. WE'RE MOVING IN THE SHADE. STEVE MCQUEEN JUST WENT PAST IN A CLASSIC MUSTANG DOING ABOUT 80 MPH./images/13222-12673/PARKED_IN_FRONT_OF_HARLEY_STORE.jpg">PARKED IN FRONT OF THE HARLEY STORE IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO./images/13222-12673/SOUTH_CHICAGO_2.jpg">CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE, ROUTE 41 HEADED FOR INDIANA/images/13222-12673/SOUTH_CHICAGO.jpg">ANOTHER SOUTH CHICAGO VIEW. WE KEPT MOVING SOUTH./images/13222-12673/INDIANA_MOVING_COMPANY.jpg">ACME MOVING COMPANY FROM GARY INDIANA, THE COMPANY MOTTO IS "IF YOU WANT IT MOVED, WE'LL MOVE IT. IF YOU WANT IT BACK, WE'VE SOLD IT."/images/13222-12673/HOOTER.jpg">MEET JARED TIELL. HE DRIVES ... |
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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 21, 2006 - "REGRETS, I'VE HAD A FEW, BUT THEN AGAIN, TOO FEW TO MENTION.…" "I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway And more, much more than this, I did it my way" I think it was serendipity that this song came on a RADIO channel ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/KELLY_JO_BOWMAN.jpg" width=1136>KELLY JO BOWMAN, ANOTHER OF MY PRETTY NIECES WHO PLAYED HOST TO MOTORCYCLE VAGABONDS. THIS IS THE YOUNG LADY WHO IS BEING STALKED BY SHAWN OF THE DEAD..... HMMMMmmmmmmm/images/13222-12673/THREE_OF_US.jpg" width=2346>A ROSE BETWEEN TWO THORNS. MARK LOGSDON, KELLY JO BOWMAN AND TOM LOGSDON. TOM'S BROTHER TIMWAS MY HOST IN PHOENIX. I WAS ABLE TO MEET WITH TOM AT THE "FRESCO" RESTAURANT WHERE WE HADALMOST NOTHING./images/13222-12673/AMTRAK.jpg">ON THE WAY TO DOWNTOWN CHICAGO WE WERE STOPPED BY A RAILROAD FLASHER AND GATE. THIS IS THE REASON. NOTICE THAT THE TRAIN IS SOMEWHAT BLURRED IN THE PHOTO. HE WAS GOING VERY FAST - 70 ... |
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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 20, 2006 - "WHEN THE MOUNTAIN WAS HIGH, I DIDN'T FAULTER, WHEN THE VALLEY WAS LOW, I DIDN'T WEEP..." The shoreline of Lake Michigan stayed off of our left shoulders as we continued the journey south toward Chicago and our meeting up with my niece Kelly Jo. She works for Double Tree as a business planner and is a recent transfer from ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/SUZYS.jpg">AS WE TRAVELED TOWARD WISCONSIN, I NOTICED THIS SIGN. PARKING THE BIKE QUICKLY, I PULLED A DOLLAROUT OF MY WALLET AND RAN INSIDE TO TALK TO SUZY. AFTER THROWING THE DOLLAR ON THE COUNTER, IASKED HER TO SHOW ME HOW SHE DID THE TWRILY THING. SHE HANDED ME SOME KIND OF PIE AND ASKED FORTHREE MORE DOLLARS. I HAD NO IDEA THAT PASTIES WERE FOOD. /images/13222-12673/WALDO.jpg">NOW I KNOW!!/images/13222-12673/DOWNTOWN_CAMPING.jpg">WHAT A GREAT LITTLE TOWN THIS WAS JUST ACROSS THE MICHIGAN BORDER IN WISCONSIN. A REALLYPRETTY STREAM MEANDERS THROUGH THE PLACE AND THE CAMPERS ARE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OFVIRTUALLY NOTHING. I SAID IT ... |
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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 18, 2006 - "TO EVERYTHING, TURN, TURN, TURN, THERE IS A SEASON, TURN, TURN, TURN, AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE UNDER HEAVEN." APOLOGIES TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THIS JOURNAL ARE IN ORDER. I MISTAKENLY IDENTIFIED SOME PHOTOS AS BEING FROM LAKE SUPERIOR WHEN IN FACT THEY WERE TAKEN ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN. Today was somewhat uneventful, really, in the big scheme ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/LEWIS.jpg">THIS IS BOB PERRY PRETENDING TO BE MERRIWETHER LEWIS DISCOVERING LAKE HURON. "OH LOOK, THERE IT IS,LAKE HURON."/images/13222-12673/CLARK.jpg">THIS IS MARK PRETENING TO BE WILLIAM CLARK. "UH, WELL I'LL BE DAMNED, RIGHT AGAIN, OLD BOY!!"/images/13222-12673/LAKE_SUPERIOR.jpg">LAKE SUPERIOR OR THE PACIFIC ALONG ROUTE 1 IN CALIFORNIA OR THE ATLANTIC ALONG THE OUTER BANKS/images/13222-12673/GUESS_WHICH_STATE.jpg">CAN IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS? LAKE SUPERIOR, UPPER PENINSULA, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 18, 2006/images/13222-12673/MYSTERY_SPOT.jpg">WHAT CAN I SAY? /images/13222-12673/BOB_AND_MARK_ON_THE_SHORE_OF_LAKE_HURON.jpg">FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, WILSON, MARK AND BOB ALONG THE SHORE OF LAKE HURON/images/13222-12673/DALE_ERYION.jpg">FOR REASONS THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND, IT IS THE EVERY DAY STORIES THAT AFFECT ME THE MOST. THIS IS THE ... |
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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 18, 2006 – "THEY SAY THAT TIME IS LIKE A RIVER AND STORIES ARE THE KEY TO THE PAST, BUT NOW I'M STUCK IN BETWEEN HERE AT MY TYPING MACHINE TRYING TO COME UP WITH SOME WORDS THAT WILL LAST….." I’ll ... |
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| /images/13222-12673/41.jpg">MICHIGAN'S VISTAS ARE DIFFERENT BUT NO LESS BEAUTIFUL THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY/images/13222-12673/HANCOCK_MICHIGAN.jpg">HANCOCK MICHIGAN./images/13222-12673/EARLY_FALL.jpg">THAT'S RIGHT! THE TREES ARE BEGINNING TO CHANGE IN THE KEWEENAW...../images/13222-12673/SUPERIOR_2.jpg">THE LEGEND LIVES ON FROM THE CHIPPEWA ON DOWN, OF THE BIG LAKE THEY CALL GITCHEGOOMIE/images/13222-12673/GAY.jpg">DIDN'T GO THERE/images/13222-12673/BUICK_SNOW_PLOW.jpg">I SWEAR THAT THIS IS THE FIRST 1955 BUICK FOUR WHEEL DRIVESNOW PLOW I HAVE EVER SEEN. THIS WAS LOCATED AT A PLACECALLED "YOOPER TOURIST TRAP" I LOVED THE HONESTY OF THE PLACE./images/13222-12673/WHAT.jpg">UH.... THIS PLACE HAS EVERYTHING......... WELL, ALMOST EVERYTHING...... WELL, PRETTY DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING./images/13222-12673/YOOPER_SNOW_MACHINE.jpg">THE YOOPER TOURIST TRAP SNOW BLOWER. WITH A 24 HORSE POWER ENGINE. IT APPARANTLY REALLY ... |
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