Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

#82,802
#82,802
Big brother kept a treasure trove of our youth. I’ve found hundreds like this. I remember this one, Mom dragging us kids along while we strolled through every shop on a trip that included stops at Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock NC, Cherokee NC, Gatlinburg and Cades Cove. We ate picnic lunches beside the stream in Cades Cove that day in 1972.

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StarRaider said:
anyone else thinking ... what the heck is the rest of the story?
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Ishort version: Bought a brand new Suzuki 750 water buffalo my senior year with grocery bagging money and co-op earnings. Suzuki seized up in Minnesota and was traded 2 weeks later in the Twin Cities for an old Norton 850 Commando that ran. Couple days later after bombing across North Dakota my clutch cable broke as we reached Glacier. After setting up camp my partner took me to Kalispell on his Honda to collect a new cable, intending to return before dark when the bears get lively. A few beers later waiting for the cable that did not arrive, we ended up staying overnight and upon returning to Glacier the next day discovered our larder had been ransacked and an aerosol can bitten into which presumably led to some mouth bleeding from the bandit bear.
 
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RavinDave said:
Ishort version: Bought a brand new Suzuki 750 water buffalo my senior year with grocery bagging money and co-op earnings. Suzuki seized up in Minnesota and was traded 2 weeks later in the Twin Cities for an old Norton 850 Commando that ran. Couple days later after bombing across North Dakota my clutch cable broke as we reached Glacier. After setting up camp my partner took me to Kalispell on his Honda to collect a new cable, intending to return before dark when the bears get lively. A few beers later waiting for the cable that did not arrive, we ended up staying overnight and upon returning to Glacier the next day discovered our larder had been ransacked and an aerosol can bitten into which presumably led to some mouth bleeding from the bandit bear.
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yep stagflation will do exactly that to ya ... tell ya wut
 
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StarRaider said:
my actual backstory thought ... on the ride back you met the Grateful Dead ... you sold the story to them who went on to write what a long strange trip its been ... and then you went on to be the king of front end loaders
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My career as king of front end loaders was torpedoed by @McDad. Now I am merely another Gator Hater lol.
 
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