Comments on: Balancing Riding with Life

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:44:17 +0000

In reply to Bill+H..

Sounds like the cars of your youth have the same names as the ones I liked. I lusted after a ’67 “goat”. And the 442 was awesome. Learning to work on cars was a lot easier back then. These new ones are a nightmare…

Someday I am going to board a train. Someday.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:41:21 +0000

In reply to RichardM. I'll have to check and see if I've somehow excluded Alaska from posting...

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:40:50 +0000

In reply to RichardM. Sorry about the posts. For some reason your stuff often goes into the SPAM folder. I keep telling Wordpress you're a decent guy.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:39:53 +0000

In reply to RichardM. Thanks for the kind words about the stonework. My back appreciates them. Definitely want to make a train trip to NYC to visit a friend. Sadly, the Vespa will stay at home.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:38:52 +0000

In reply to Mike Davis. I could here trains where I grew up from birth to age nine. Boat horns too. And then we moved near an airport. Nothing romantic about the sounds of jets overhead. I think that big Vespa sculpture is for sale!

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 03:37:00 +0000

In reply to David Masse.

Balance is never easy to come by. For me at least. I can well imagine a new house consuming any kind of balance. Hopefully you’ll find some rest soon.

I love working with stones. If I were 40 years younger I might consider becoming a stone mason…

By: Bill+H.

Bill+H. — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 03:52:49 +0000

Steve: you touched on so many good themes in this piece! I love the pic of the GTS with the 32 kit car. Those Offy heads are gorgeous, although I would have chosen a more practical carb set up. Those headers look seriously loud; but if it has a tall cam, I bet the sound is music. That pic also takes me back to the days when I had to work on my fun cars as I was growing up in the 70s — a 1970 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400, a 1967 GTO with a seriously hot motor, and a 1969 442 convertible that was just plain fun to drive around. I had to do the work myself — and teach myself how as I went — because I didn’t have any money to pay anyone else to do it! Clutches, head gaskets, water pumps, distributors, transmissions, you name it. Fond and dirty memories!

Also like the RR tracks and the GTS. Too bad you didn’t happen upon a train while there; it would have made a cool picture. Since you haven’t ridden a domestic train, you should make that a bucket list item. One of my favorite memories is riding the Southern Crescent from Atlanta to DC (and back) around 1968 or 69 with a bunch of my elementary school Safety Patrol colleagues. Still a great way to travel when time is not the transcendent factor on the trip.

By: RichardM

RichardM — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:14:06 +0000

Hmmm, testing 1-2-3. Multiple comment attempts.

By: RichardM

RichardM — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:08:23 +0000

For some reason my comment seems to have vanished in the black hole known as WordPress.

I second David’s comment about your stone walkway. It looks fabulous. Maybe even more so than the ’32 Ford replica. It also sounds like you need a train trip even if it’s just to NYC or D.C.. Do they allow you to check your Vespa on the train?

By: RichardM

RichardM — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:04:38 +0000

I second David’s comment about the stonework. It looks even better than the ’32 Ford replica. It sounds like it’s time for a train adventure even if it is just to New York or D.C.. Can you check a Vespa as luggage?