Waiting for OhCrap's Safe Return

[fishmeister]

Hope OhCrap's having a good vacation, he was supposed to post a little something along the way.

Maybe having too much fun to bother....
http://nighthawk-forums.com/index.php/topic,5257.msg81235.html#msg81235

[ariwhiteboy]

I bet that's one heck of a good trip, maybe one day when I'm rich I can take all my NH pals on a Tour de Europe on our trusty steeds....don' hold you breath though. :shog:t

[fishmeister]

Hurry up and buy the lottery ticket before I'm too old to ride.

That is of course, if I was considered part of that group.

I might get caught up in Amsterdam and never make it back home tho....

[ariwhiteboy]

It's ok fish I think they ship bikes from amsterdam 

[fishmeister]

AWB, If you win the lottery you can have a pole barn filled with so many bikes it would take the rest of your life to ride them all.

A different one every day.....you won't be needing the FisHawk.

[ariwhiteboy]

.....you won't be needing the FisHawk.

Of course I will....I can only ride one bike at a time!

[coffee_brake]

I am so jealous....and also so thankful that North America is also so big...and paved....

[bajakirch]

Oh, to be young and carefree--and unmarried, without a mortgage, or car payments, or kids' school activities, and....

Ride on, our Dutch friend, while you still can. 

[drdubb]

I told my youngest daughter to have her adventures while she is young.
So far, she's toured France - spent a week on a cognac vineyard.
Lived in Spain for 6 months.
Hiked to the Machu Pichu (sp) in Peru.
Visited the rain forest in Brazil.

She's now swallowed the anchor. Has a real job and a mortgage.

My young dream was to tour Europe on a motorcycle. 35 years later, I haven't done it yet. At least I'm riding again.
I swallowed the anchor at 25.

[ariwhiteboy]

I was lucky enough to get my share of adventure in the marines, not exactly where I wanted to go every time, but I did get to see and do alot of cool things and get paid for it.  Eventually I would like to ride some serious miles, maybe coast to coast for a start and then start looking at visiting other continents.  I "swallowed the anchor" at 22, but it ain't so bad.  I mean she let me go off to NC to meet a buch of strangers from the internet....

[bajakirch]

When I was in college, my future wife did a semester-abroad in England during my senior year. She came back and was so excited about the experience, she convinced me to spend all of my graduation money on an open-ended round trip ticket to London. I landed with most of my worldly possessions in a backpack, about $200 in my pocket and no idea what I was going to do for the next several months.

I connected with a college buddy who was living there and he put me up for a week while I looked for work. I ended up getting a job in an Islington (northern area of London) pub where I made about $200 a week + a free room and meals.

I spent most of the summer there, working and doing the occasional day or weekend trip to see the sights. I capped it off with a week on the southern coast of France, in lodging arranged by an Australian chap I worked with. He somehow convinced two Danish girls to allow us to stay with them at their parents' condo outside of Nice.

I got back at the end of summer and 'swallowed the anchor' soon afterward -- regular job, wife, kids soon to follow etc.

I'll always be grateful that my wife convinced me to do it; I was against the idea when she suggested it. If I hadn't done it, I guarantee I would still be saying, "Someday...".

My point is, get out there and have a ball when you're young. A few months, even a few years, out of the 80, 90 or 100 years most of us will be around is nothing, and isn't going to have a significantly negative affect on one's life trajectory.

[hppants]

I swallowed the anchor

   

Good one.

[drdubb]

I swallowed the anchor

   

Good one.

Its a nautical term for when you give up the ocean going life and settle on land.