Kickapoo gurgle by, we ate, drank, shared our knowledge of attractions in the area, and traded all kinds of stories. John, a “Coastie” who had worked security and rescue out of San Francisco Bay, shared an experience he had had while ferrying his K-bike back to Wisconsin. In Utah, a strong, straight-line wind suddenly slammed across the highway, and John watched the semi he was following tilt and then tip to its side on a corner. At the same time, the blast drove him off the pavement, across the shoulder and down into a ditch where he and the bike did an endo. Luckily, Lacy had been following in the Jeep, and miraculously, the only fatalities were a crushed headlight nacelle and a fractured collar bone. Now that’s a story! We adjourned to a campfire, and the story spinning and bonding continued long into that starry night. The next morning, I was packed and


squirming my way back to the highway by dawn without an opportunity to see my new friends again, but it occurred to me how lucky I had been—once again saved from the solitary confinement of my own noggin and probably a night spent reading a John Sanford novel for the third time, simply due to my choice of transportation. Much as I was fond of believing when I was 16, motorcycles are not chick magnets, nor are they only about spending time by your- self. They can be, however, a link, a pass- word or a secret handshake that often admits me unconditionally into a commu- nity of like-minded people. Like it or not, it’s in our DNA to be social creatures, and it’s strange (a little wonderful) how a hunk of steel and plastic can fulfill such a basic human need.


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