Photoessay: A ride through Woodside, CA

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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2005
    After having my brains sucked out of my ear by lawyers and beancounters today, I got home and found a phone message from the mortuary. Mom's cremains are ready to be picked-up. I'm going to pick her up tomorrow morning on my GS. During my entire 26 year riding career, I was never able to get either of my parents to ride pillion with me. Here's my chance to take mom for a ride to my house. We're going to take the long way home.



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    In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway american dream
    At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
    Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
    Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin’ out over the line
    Baby this town rips the bones from your back
    It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap
    We gotta get out while we’re young
    `cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

    Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
    I want to guard your dreams and visions
    Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
    And strap your hands across my engines
    Together we could break this trap
    We’ll run till we drop, baby we’ll never go back
    Will you walk with me out on the wire
    `cause baby I’m just a scared and lonely rider
    But I gotta find out how it feels
    I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real

    Beyond the palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
    The girls comb their hair in rearview mirrors
    And the boys try to look so hard
    The amusement park rises bold and stark
    Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
    I wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight
    In an everlasting kiss

    The highway’s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
    Everybody’s out on the run tonight but there’s no place left to hide
    Together wendy we’ll live with the sadness
    I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul
    Someday girl I don’t know when we’re gonna get to that place
    Where we really want to go and we’ll walk in the sun
    But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run





    I think mom'll enjoy the ride...and the songs that run through my head. :pissed
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
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  • 4labs4labs Registered Users Posts: 2,089 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2005
    May your ride home bring you some closure and peace...
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited March 10, 2005
    What a nice gesture fish! I know she'll enjoy the ride. 'specially if you take
    her through Pescadero and to the coast. Be sure to stop at the beach for
    a bit.


    Ian
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  • Ann McRaeAnn McRae Registered Users Posts: 4,584 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2005
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2005
    fish wrote:
    Something like this?

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    Now that is inspired! I love it. Did you wash your bike, it looked shiny and clean. I haven't washed my car in so long I would be afraid that without the salt and grit and stuff, it would just collapse.

    I am so sorry about your mother. All your losses. Death sucks! I have been thinking a lot about it lately, and that is about all I can come up with.

    It will hurt always, and your mother will be with you always, but you will eventually have a place you can put the hurt. Most of the time. My mother died in 1987.

    I am so sorry, I have missed you, and you have not begun.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • GatorGator Registered Users Posts: 192 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2005
    Bless you Fish, and enjoy the ride with your Mom. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
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