Maho Beach and the Sunset Bar are on my bucket list. I may just stand at the fence and breathe hot kerosene fumes from a small jet... a woman managed to kill herself by getting blown away by a 737, I've said it before, I'm only a tiny bit stupid.. 😜

Macho is jogging home from your vasectomy.. 😄

God, I hope you can get there someday. Plan on spending the whole day, and night... if you last that long ☺️. They have a blackboard in the bar where they list all the incoming flights. Airline name, equipment type, and time of arrival. You can rent a beach umbrella and chairs, sit outdoors at the bar hoisting a cool one, look at the blackboard, and then run down to the beach when the big ones come in. Or, go down to the fence and hang on when you see something of interest turn onto the center stripe for takeoff. IMNSO, it's one of the coolest spots on earth. And, don't ever forget...the only things we will ever really regret in life are the things we didn't do...and time is not on our side..................Doug

On 6/15/2020 at 4:04 PM, HighBypass said:

Macho is jogging home from your vasectomy.. 😄

I knew a guy who rode his motorcycle home. Does that count?

LOL

 Sue

Depends if it was a Harley, or something with a big single cylinder 4-stroke engine... 😄

Triumph 750.

Actually I did ride my motorcycle to and from in 1971! It was a Honda CB750K.

I am now 82 and just gave up riding 3 months ago. Was having balance problems when coming to a stop. It finally happened -- I fell over at a light. After 50yrs, 62 motorcycles and about 600k miles, I'm done. Sad day for me!

Bruce

Bruce, the like is for your story, not for having to give up on motorcycling. I no longer ride two wheels - powered wheels that is, and I'm just the wrong side of 50 (53). I had a bike that was languishing in my shed, a Yamaha TDM850 Mk.1, couldn't afford to get it running again (new starter motor and battery at least) and then get it to a condition for it to pass our (UK) MOT laws. My insurance had lapsed so if I was to re-insure the bike, the companies would class me as a "born again" biker (i.e not converting to Christianity, but "only just got on a bike in my middle age and forgotten everything I'd learned over the years driving and riding on the public highway..")

Actually, now we're into almost too much info territory, I maintain that a man could actually jog home from a vasectomy due to the painkillers and the local anaesthesia. I was driven back home by my ("long suffering!") wife and I was fine... for about 3 hours... then I became increasing uncomfortable, until I said with a pained expression on my face that I was retiring to bed. We actually laughed together about it... which didn't help LOL! I'd been kicked by a mule metaphorically speaking.. 😄

This really is Hangar Chat 😄 

I used to be a biker...on my buddy's beat-up old Triumph. I was 16 years old and out to impress the girls. We were at the beach one day. I proceeded to hop on the bike (I'd ridden it only once before), tool off into the parking lot right next to the beach (and all the babes), goose it real hard, and then....all the skin came off the outside of my left leg. Hip to ankle. I was so busy watching the girls I didn't see the sand on the pavement. Laid that sucker right over on it's side, and my leg. End of biking career..........Doug

Yeah Dog!  Young, virile, good looking, and dumb as a load of bricks.  We've all been there a time or two.

Noel

1 hour ago, W2DR said:

I used to be a biker...on my buddy's beat-up old Triumph.

Ouch! I felt that as you were describing it. I never dumped my bike, but did come close once on a borrowed Gold Wing! I sure would have liked to own a Gold Wing though. I was too poor to afford something that elegant at that time. I owned  a new Yamaha Virago 750 and rode it between Gainesville, FL and my parent's home on Estero Island (Ft. Myers Beach) many times over the six years I owned it.

Here's the last ride video I made in 2018.

https://1drv.ms/v/s!As2fh2Zk--gpimwVi9dz_M7sasFb?e=4s9pNU

 

bruce

FR. Bill --- The Virago was a really nice bike. Never owned one, but rode one once. Plenty of oomph!

Bruce

9 minutes ago, brucets said:

FR. Bill --- The Virago was a really nice bike. Never owned one, but rode one once. Plenty of oomph!

I really hated to sell it, but when I left Gainesville for North Carolina I couldn't take it with me, darnit all! 😵

I never owned a bike. Not because I didn't want to. But, rather, because I was scared stiff. When I was a young lad (7-8) years old my next door neighbor spent almost a year in a body cast as a result of a motorcycle accident. That image of him lying there helpless is still, to this day, burned into my mind. And no badly how I wanted to buy and ride a bike,... I just couldn't do it..........Doug

Edited June 20, 20205 yr by W2DR

Well, Doug, you have probably saved yourself a lot of money and perhaps some, or a lot of, serious grief! On the other hand you probably would have seen a lot more of the country had you owned a motorcycle. Some of my friends, and my kids, asked me to make a list of what I have seen on my bike rides over the past 50yrs. Here's what I could remember.

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Some of what I have experienced in my 50yrs of riding:

* Most, if not all, the mountain passes, historical sites and national & state parks of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana and Arizona

* The Oregon Trail from Chimney Rock, in Nebraska, thru Ft Laramie, in WY.

* The Winchester Arms Museum in Cody, WY.

* Yellowstone and Grand Teton N. P.

* The Lewis and Clark Trail from Ft Benton, MT, over Lemhigh Pass into Idaho.

* The Charles M. Russell Museum & Custer Battlefield N. P. in Montana

* The Road to the Sun in Glacier National Park and Bear Tooth Pass in Montana & Wyoming.

* The Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, The Badlands, Wall Drug, and Deadwood in South Dakota

* Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico

* The Santa Fe Trail from Taos to Bents Old Fort at La Junta, CO

* Monument Valley, Canyon De Chelly, Grand Canyon, Tombstone in AZ

* Death Valley

* The Texas Hill Country, Big Bend N.P., Fredericksburg, The Alamo all in Texas

* Gen. U. S. Grant's home Galena, IL

* Printer's Alley, the Ryman Auditorium and Jack Daniels Distillery all in Tennessee

* The Natches Trace from Nashville to Vicksburg to Natches, Mississippi

* All the Civil War battlefields along the Mississippi - Memphis to New Orleans

* The Battleship Alabama at Mobile, AB

* All the Civil War sites and battlefields from Gettysburg, PA to Charleston, SC

* All the Civil War battlefields and sites from Nashville to Chattanooga to Atlanta

* All of the early revolutionary period sites in and around Washington, DC including Mt. Vernon and Monticello

* The Skyline Drive/Blue Ridge Parkway from Front Royal, VA to Cherokee, NC.

* The Florida Keys and every bar and restaurant on the Intra-Coastal Waterway from Jacksonville to Key West - well, almost!