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Morning Bill...yeah seems this is getting to be my usual wake up time 3:30-4:30 am.... Maybe if I stayed up later than 9:30 I could stretch it out a bit. I just Got back last week from 3 weeks riding in Italy with a friend from Rome..mostly Dolomites/Stelvio/Switzerland...so not 100% time adjusted yet ! This time while with my friend in Italy I had some very fine Grappa (Thought of you).and a new found obsession...Mirto! Looking fwd to seeing you and the others in Tellico!

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5 months ago..Daryl Hall at 77yrs old Joe Walsh at 76 yrs old...Are these Cats cool or what?

I just spent 3 weeks in Italy/Switzerland/Austria/Germany riding the Alps/Stelvio/Dolomites, etc and all over Northern Italy...with one to 3 well experienced guys riding the new 1300 BMW's and me on a stock 2020 V-85 with 90,000 km on it .....There is nothing the BMW 1300 can do in the tight and steep mountain roads that the V-85 cant do except blast for a minute on the straights..and in fact the v-85 can do the tight steep Stelvio and Dolomite switchbacks better..you just have to use the gearbox more and push it harder..on the highway it'll run along for hours at 155KM just fine...Plus you have the Character of a Guzzi Air Cooled under you..:-) No rider modes,traction control..etc...just fun.

Had a good time at Misano today except for MM usual dirty riding at the end,seems he can’t help himself, He was basically boo’d out of the place by the entire Grandstand heading back to Rimini now, Then its off to The Dolomite’s early in the morning.. a few days up there then I guess I’ll do Stelvio and maybe stop by Mandello on the way back down south..,the v85 was excellent in the downhill switch backs around Tavullia yesterday thats where it shows its best… Its been Hot and humid for a couple weeks now.

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docc ..You told me the one I had to get to come LAST year was the same as yours and Bills!

Glen Campbell was a far better musician than he is usually given credit for..and a fantastic picker.... About 2 years before he passed My wife and I were out to eat at a Brazilian steak house in L.A. ( one of those places where they carve it out of a big hunk at your table) and Glen and his whole family came came in and took the table next to us..about 12 of them..Him,his wife his kids and his Grand Kids..He came over to our table and said hello and was very low key and friendly....It was his Birthday.. He didnt recognize me. Flashback 45 years earlier In the early 70's when I was a young Camera man working for an Ad agency I was hired to shoot a commercial in L.A. at a Golf course with Glen and Forrest Tucker..This is when Glen was drinking big time and on his ass that day..that was when he was married to Tanya Tucker..Glen took Great delight at continually loudly calling Forrest "Taurus Fucker"!! I thought Tucker was going to punch him out for sure..he did not see the Humor in it. It was a long day..ha ha

If your not planning on reproducing I would just say.... Carry On

i know nothing about it..except for the ad...but sure seems like a fair price.. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/mcy/d/novato-1998-moto-guzzi-v10-centauro/7754565368.html

I don't judge other peoples motorcycles..Its like judging their choice in wives, ..unless they are just horrible beasts..its their bike, they can paint it in pink poka dots and run it up a flag pole and light it on fire if they like.. I doubt anyone who has been riding a number of years and had a few bikes has owned one that they put together that didn't wish they had done differently than they did at the time..I sure have a few..and I've had a few women, as well as a few male associates I would like to change out as well...the beauty of life is having my own mind. When it comes down to it..Woman or Man or beast ..if they have a love for 2 wheels and a motor..especially if its Italian 95% of the time I can find have some common ground.

From what I know of her she is very bike savvy and self sufficient not her first Motorcycle ,Moto Guzzi, nor her first Griso and they all look nicely appointed...so most likely this one is no different.

Probably the Baltic..She is from Poland

And back at it again!!

Katarzyna with her new bike...