What have you found while riding?
06-26-20, 03:20 PM
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Not my photo but I see this all the time, even deep in the woods.
06-27-20, 08:05 AM
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It was laying in the street. Nice wheel building tool.
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01-30-21, 11:09 AM
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Yesterday: A tailgate from a pickup truck in the grass between US36 and the bike path.
No, I did not bring it home.
No, I did not bring it home.
01-30-21, 02:25 PM
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Back in 2017, when a friend and I rode the ACA Southern Tier route, I found a little Gerber folding knife in the road just outside Brawley, California.That was on February 23rd. It was a fairly useless little thing, only about 2 inches long, but nicely made, so I stuck it in my pocket.
On April 2, between Bogalusa, Louisiana and Poplarville, Mississippi, we ran into a young (compared to us) guy named Jay, who was walking from Panama City, Florida, to Albuquerque NM. (I had forgotten his name, but just checked my journal--that also accounts for the exact dates). We talked for maybe five minutes, and got onto the subject of interesting stuff we had found or seen in the road. He said "I found this knife a while back," and pulled out a little Gerber identical to mine. We compared the serial numbers, which only differed by a couple of hundred. That was cool.
I think the knife is still around here somewhere, but I can't find it to include a photo. Sorry.
I've often wondered if Jay made it all the way to New Mexico. He had a pretty bad sunburn when we saw him.
On April 2, between Bogalusa, Louisiana and Poplarville, Mississippi, we ran into a young (compared to us) guy named Jay, who was walking from Panama City, Florida, to Albuquerque NM. (I had forgotten his name, but just checked my journal--that also accounts for the exact dates). We talked for maybe five minutes, and got onto the subject of interesting stuff we had found or seen in the road. He said "I found this knife a while back," and pulled out a little Gerber identical to mine. We compared the serial numbers, which only differed by a couple of hundred. That was cool.
I think the knife is still around here somewhere, but I can't find it to include a photo. Sorry.
I've often wondered if Jay made it all the way to New Mexico. He had a pretty bad sunburn when we saw him.
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01-30-21, 02:54 PM
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Back in the 80s, a buddy of mine found himself working at Rax a midwest, low-rent beef joint during a low ebb in his life. He had to wear the men's version of the pictured uniform, which subsituted a floppy hat for the scarf.
I picked him up from work one day and started to give him a hard time about the uniform and his life choices. As we hit the highway, he said to me, you're right, and started throwing his uniform out the window, while screamin "f-you - I quit forever!!!"
30 years on, he's now a VP at a major company </end of story>
I picked him up from work one day and started to give him a hard time about the uniform and his life choices. As we hit the highway, he said to me, you're right, and started throwing his uniform out the window, while screamin "f-you - I quit forever!!!"
30 years on, he's now a VP at a major company </end of story>
As an aside, my kid sister worked at TB starting at age 16. 40 years later, she was leaving her job as a Finance guru at Taco Bell corporate headquarters. She wore her '70s TB uniform on her last day... Great for laughs!
01-31-21, 12:00 PM
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Not much because many of my rides are on back country dirt roads with little traffic. Did find on pavement rides a screwdriver and a US Army marked zippo lighter.
