Wilson Leslie ‘Jockey’ Johnson 1934 – 2020
Dad passed away just before midnight on a Thursday night. He was born 31,447 days ago – on a Monday – in a four room cypress wood , tin roofed house. I usually just call it a ‘shack’, but if my grandpa, who died...
Saga of 1* Interlude: Stress free days and the Klamath Falls ride (August 2019)
since you’ve all been so kind to listen to me carp these past weeks while i’ve been heavy laden with anxiety, i thought it only right to share about these past few days and how much better i feel, thank you all very...
Saga of 1* 2015 Part VIII: The Wonderful Wizard
I want to tell you why I started calling Gordon “Wizard”. Near the end of 2013 I ran into a garbage truck and totaled our suv. Gordon offered up his 2002 Honda Odyssey as a replacement gift, so in April of 2014 he...
Saga of 1* Part VII : Popeye and the Doctor
So Cmack and I are waiting in Sturgis, South Dakota for Greg and a guy named Mike. This was back in 2009 and our fabled trip to Sturgis would lead me to deciding that, after about 8 years of ‘surviving’, I needed to learn...
Saga of 1* Part VI: The Rooster and the Trail and Quantum Entanglement (Spooky Action)
Just skip this first part and scroll down to the picture to begin.Funny how we can come from such different places and end up on the same trail; end up knitted together in spite of our extreme differences and all. Funny? Or spooky?Have...
Saga of 1* Part 5 “We need someone to take pictures so we can stop…stopping!”
Even in a group of some of the most creative and inventive men ever, Lance Tracy still stands out as maybe the most unique guy we’ve got. Lance can make just about anything including a real good time. He can even take apart a...
Saga of 1* Part 4 continued…
I got to Columbia, South Carolina on a Friday night, late and weary, but dry, and checked into my motel. Saturday was spent getting ready for Rick. I went and got the Ducati from my friend’s house where it’d been...
Saga of 1* Part 4: stealing Rick’s Harley…
Before our 2011 ride, word was just starting to get out, to all of you guys, what we were up to and that what we were up to wasn’t something to be easily dismissed. However, getting Rick’s attention and presence was...
Saga of 1* Part 3: Joel and the Daytona
2010 Mid March of 2010, we found out why Lisa was getting sicker and realized she was dying from a terminal and incurable cancer. I made friends with Ray before the year ended and he said ‘don’t worry about money,...
Saga of 1* Part 2…
I have a secret motorcycle group and it was born of my sorrow that you guys turned into camaraderie. 2009 … and I had an idea… to get Cmack and Greg to be best friends. And Cmack had an idea to get us to Sturgis. ...
Saga of the 1* Introduction.
You are all the best friends a guy could have. I began writing this a couple of weeks ago… I found an encouraging note yesterday from Dr. Shapiro, going all the way back to 2015. He was kindly responding to a suggestion I’d...