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That sure does look perdy.
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Ok here ya go, some need explanation...other speak for themselves, you decide? And remember Jokes hurt people!  Beaver Bay, MN get's the wave! Airguy, Wojo, Loco and Mert  Wojo and Mert on the edge of Palisade Head in Silver Bay, MN  Their in Canada eh!  Palisade Head Silver Bay, MN 2007 circle Tour Airguy, Wojo, Loco, Mert and Fast eddy! 
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You guys wipe those smiles off your faces right now!! 
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greetings from Marquette Michigan...making friends everywhere we go! we part company tomorrow and continue our adventure as soloamigos.
photos and stories a plenty.
PS: thanks to Katie at the Cedar Motor Inn for letting me run down the battery on her lap top.
vroooooom
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Made it home last night late. I've heard from Shari who stopped in Flint, MI for the night and was hoping to get on the road early today.
Recollections, observations and photos to follow. I need to veg today.
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K, just letting you all know i got home.
All I can say beyond that right now is: WOW!
Ride On!
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OK I'll break the ice with the first story. Loco and I meet at the destination of Schriber which I selected because it was exactly half way from Duluth, MN (where Loco and I began) and Sault Ste Marie (where Mert, Wojo and Airguy) started on Monday) We arrived just shy of 30 minutes apart from one another not bad for a 300 mile trip to connect. After getting a room and dinner we wandered over to the bar (go figure!) The boys order up some fine Canadian ale or beer of some significance and I order a small glass wine. Not that I am uppity by any means, but because of my past I have strict rules about imbibing, what I can have and how much and I adhere pretty strictly to it. We are all getting along fine and I drink about 1/4 of a 4-6 oz. glass and I start feeling it. I think wow, this stuff is pretty potent, my eyes even feel funny! We're all yucking it up and my eye is bothering more and more, watering and just doesn't feel right. After a significant amount of time I figure I better go see what's going on and look at it in a mirror in the bathroom. Man, maybe I got pink eye from the ride today. Head to the Bathroom (I would say John, but don't want to offend Wojo) I look in the mirror and WOW, my eye is but a little slit of an opening and it looks like I got hit with a baseball bat! I come out to the table and say hey! My eyes all swollen, didn't you all notice it? Well seems everyone was a bit taken back by my eye, Keith really got creeped out and could not look at it, but they thought it was just normal for me and were afraid to say anything (didn't want to hurt my feelings) Waitress came up and called me Squint Eastwood and we had a great deal of fun with it. I would stare at Keith every opportunity I had just to creep him out. Yep, I like these guys! My kind of people! For me this was the best trip with the best bunch of people that I have ever been on. A real treat. Only bummer to the end of my day with them was I got home and they ordered me into work because my replacement got sick. I was not happy and well...I got paid to sleep that night...so it was not a bad thing. I was just dog tired from too much fun.  eddy
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Glad you made it home yesterday Keith, I was getting worried when you didn't call back. Now where is Shari.....
Good place to start your story Squint!
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 Loco and I in Grand Portage, MN near the Canadian Boarder on the way "Up" the Shore.  In Schriber Ontario Canada  Bikes enjoy the view north of Thunder Bay, Canada  Mert on over look on the Minnesota side  Bikes are missing the view behind them at Palisade Head at Silver Bay, MN.
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Thanks for the cool photo's Squint.....here's a few more...  Angry Moose!  Livin on the edge....  They still make those??  Can you say over-exposure?? I got a bunch of these...rookie move.  The Barrel Inn - Schreiber, ON All photo's here: Clicky
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many many moose tracks later...
home safe.
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K, got all the photos i took uploaded to photobucket.com. No editing done whatsoever, just what the camera saw. Enjoy! Lake Superior '07
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Blue is clean(and so are my boots)
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one of Keith's new friends 
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Glad to here that everyone made it back safe  Curious how many miles you put on Shari? And how about the hall of fame??
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looks like y'all had some fun! 
we should do this every weekend!
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3,988 moose miles. no hall of fame by the time i hit Ohio i really felt the need to roll the miles on and get closer to home. here's a few days worth of photos. can't seem to re organize my photobucket account to display the pics in the order i posted them. more pics and words to follow. i am a tired liitle moose child.
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So where you all from....? So where did you all meet? ON the INTERNET! 
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And what's up with this?? 
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3,988 moose miles.
Holy moose miles Batman (well maybe Batgirl...)! I bet it's good to me home! Sorry about the HOF - there's another reason to ride now....... 
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3,988 moose miles.
Holy moose miles Batman (well maybe Batgirl...)! I bet it's good to me home! Sorry about the HOF - there's another reason to ride now.......
megamoosemilesandsomemoosesmilestoo.
i kept thinking that i would like to spend a couple of days doing the HOF thing rather than a few hours.
plus, Ohio kind of gave me the creeps. please, Ohiofolk, do not take offense. none intended.
the one and only time i got cut off; until i got within 125 miles of home, was on a secondary road in Toledo.
A guy on a HOG(was he in hog country, i wonder) with the license plate JABBA cut me off.
Jabba The Hutt has visited my dreams, recently, and i am not particularly fond of him.
more pics added. come see...
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What?!? I was just pointing out the sign.
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No kidding. Where's the wave??? 
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The entire lake population saw the wave. One couple which we met early on Tuesday at the Terry Fox memorial overlooking Thunder Bay, we ran into that night again in Grand Marais, Minnesota over dinner. She had been drinking to celebrate her birthday and came over to talk to us. The conversation went like this;
"Hi you guys"
"Hey"
"So where are you guys from?"
groan..."Okay, I'm from Windsor, Ontario. He's from Chicago, she's from New Haven, Conneticutt and Jeff is from Minnesota and Ed is from Wisconsin."
"Wow. How did you all meet?"
Deadpan. "Internet dating."
hahahahahaha.
"Hey have you seen a bunch of people waving like this..." We do the wave.
"Yeah, we saw those people a couple of times. We thought they knew us."
"No. That was us."
hahahahahha
"We've been doing it to everyone."
hahahahahahha
Her husband comes over now.
"Hey honey you know those people that were waving at us? It's them...." Husband grins uncomfortably.
"....and guess what? They met through internet dating!"
Continuing to grin. "Move honey, move."
"No wait....let us explain."
hahahahaha
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No kidding. Where's the wave???
we waved so much i got bonnevilleamericadotcomwaverselbowandmightneedphysicaltherapy
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Got my pics up on the web now too. Here.
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The pictures and the tellings are wonderful. Diggin' the ninjas in front of the bikes picture, especially. 
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It's better than sunshine,
It's better than moonshine,
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we love our ninja's. they joined the trip on the last day we were together. i got them from a littleninjavendingmachine at Tommy's Restaurant in Marquette, MI. each one came in a littleninjaplasticbubble for safeninjakeeping.
you should have seen the looks i got after dropping oneofthelittleninjas on the floor underneath the littleninjavendingmachine. picture this: me in my leather jacket, dungarees and boots scrabbling on my hands and knees to chase a littleninjainaplasticbubble who tried to roll away. i think he was a chickenlittlelittleninjaafraidofgettingonthebike.
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The entire lake population saw the wave. One couple which we met early on Tuesday at the Terry Fox memorial overlooking Thunder Bay, we ran into that night again in Grand Marais, Minnesota over dinner. She had been drinking to celebrate her birthday and came over to talk to us. The conversation went like this;
"Hi you guys"
"Hey"
"So where are you guys from?"
groan..."Okay, I'm from Windsor, Ontario. He's from Chicago, she's from New Haven, Conneticutt and Jeff is from Minnesota and Ed is from Wisconsin."
"Wow. How did you all meet?"
Deadpan. "Internet dating."
hahahahahaha.
"Hey have you seen a bunch of people waving like this..." We do the wave.
"Yeah, we saw those people a couple of times. We thought they knew us."
"No. That was us."
hahahahahha
"We've been doing it to everyone."
hahahahahahha
Her husband comes over now.
"Hey honey you know those people that were waving at us? It's them...." Husband grins uncomfortably.
"....and guess what? They met through internet dating!"
Continuing to grin. "Move honey, move."
"No wait....let us explain."
hahahahaha
and we saw them again the following morning somewhere between Lutsen and Duluth, MN
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Yep that's them. He's got the "smile nice for the crazy people" smile on there too.
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oh yeah, and i picked the least nervous smile image out of the 3 or 4 i took of them.
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Do these guys make you nervous?  Fasteddy, Wojo (whats in the pipe dude?) Airguy
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You guys are just too much, the wave and all.... So funny was the explanation of how y'all met on the internet... Just envious that I could not have been on that trip... Looks like you all had a blast before tiring out from the long ride... Y'all take care and keep the rubber on the road...
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I greatly enjoyed those "big lake" tour pictures. I think if I didn't live in THIS country, I'd like to live in THAT country. Actually pondered a job in Ashland/Washburn a year and 1/2 ago. Of course the 9 months of winter would be a major bummer.........  jh
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See what happens when John snaps one of your moments in time? 
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John's photograph 
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What?!? I was just pointing out the sign.
The question is what was going on off screen? 
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[quoteThe question is what was going on off screen?
I'll email you the real pictures.
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