riding through the countryside in the midwest and stopping to chat with a farmer..When I first read this thread, I thought about all the fine folks who are other riders
that I have met... but I have met and talked to people incidentally while I was on
the road too... I remember one fellow I met on a backroad in North Georgia who reminded me
of JJ Cale, and JJ Cale's songs, too... it was before the stock market crash in 2008, he was fabricating mantles and
stuff from the heartwood of cedar trees for "rich people's houses", and talking about
the crazy amount of money they'd pay for his stuff. One story he told me as about
a "long legged" woman he'd met back when he had an xyzzy Honda of some sort.
He sold the Honda for $500 and he and the girl went off to Florida together until
the money ran out... this was obviously back before the money would run out
before the end of the first day

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-Mike