We were adopted.

By a cat, who just showed up this past summer after Maggies mother passed away. He had been hanging around, and we finally let him in the house. He has been de-clawed on all four paws, and should not have been allowed outside.

He had not been eating good, had an eye infection and a respiratory infection. Maggie took him to the Vet, who said he was 6-8 years old.

We cannot find anyone who has lost a cat - so I guess at this point, he has adopted us.

The grandkids named him Hello Kitty. Ooookaaayyyyyy.......

maui by hog.

Maggie and me on a road king in maui

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belgian ale and jk knife.

A jk handmade knife and a belgian trippel that my friend jacob brought over

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kelsey.

She will kill me if she sees this. Isn't she cute?

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a side by side comparison of a smith and wesson magnum 500 cartridge

And a .357 magnum cartridge. Kinda makes the 357 look small

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chicken wings

At least this 1 was part of a package

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um. yea.

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Emily's Halloween Party.

She is the cupcake.

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Made it back home last night.

I made it back from Middletown NY to my home (920 miles) in 13 hours and 45 minutes on FB. I did mostly "splash and dashes", meaning I would bomb out 240 miles or so and then pull into a gas station, use my debit card to fill up FB's 7 gallon gas tank and then bomb-on down the highway.

I saw a motorcycle accident on I-81 in PA. The accident had just happened and there were no rescue or police on the scene, but there were people assisting the motorcyclist who was laying in the middle of the median. There were other motorcycles parked on the shoulder. The accident happened on the northbound side, and I was going south. I could not find any info on the accident - I hope the rider was not seriously injured - he did have a helmet on.

I also saw a black bear on the side of the road in the "State Game Lands".

It was sunny and nice - even got hot near the end across Indiana and into Illinois. I did not have any trouble bombing through the Chicago area on 80 - surprisingly.

Now I can relax and watch a little football today.

We got caught in traffic on 84 in Danbury Connecticut. Apparently there was a police shooting were an officer shot somebody on the highway. Luckily according to the officer That I spoke with, no police officers were injured.

We were lucky to get off on exit 8 and get gas and then headed through town on the George Washington Parkway to get to New York state and then back on the highway.

Here is a link to the news story about this traffic jam and police shooting.
http://www.ctpost.com/default/article/Neighbors-recount-frightening-events-of-I-84-695768.php

lobster roll.

The Gridiron in Lewiston Me.

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6 days of rain - behind us now we hope.....

A little over 2000 miles and I see my first sunshine. It's about 1550 miles back to my house from here.

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the sunrise at cadillac mtn.

The highest point on the eastern seaboard. This is the first place that the sun shines on the continental US each morning. We were up there (1530ft) at 6:30am. This was to get as much sun today as possible lol....

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justin thought it was good too.

He ate the roe and the green liver stuff.

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fresh maine lobster right out of Bass Harbor.

Yes it is as good as it looks. and this 1.3 pound whole lobster was 13.99 with sides. They ask you if you want "starches and vegetables".

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scallops.

The size of a kennedy half dollar.

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finally. LOBSTER!

Gilley's Head of the Harbor.

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Bar Harbor Maine.

Pronounced "baaaah haaaabaaaah" . It's a little chilly but say it's not raining yay! We have a nice little hotel called the harbor view inn southwest harbor. It's basically rained on us all day today except for the last hour of our trip . we were unsure was that big bright thing in the sky was 1 of the bunch away showed up .

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we made it to maine a little late but made it none the less.

It was raining.

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government liquor store in new hampshire .

It was raining this is dsy 6 of the soaking
.

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the custom boot-dryer at the comfort inn in montpelier

It is raining

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Montpelier is the capital of vermont, and it is also the smallest capital city in the US. Bigg whoop - it is raining.

we are there

It was raining.

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blueberries in vermont. we are in montpelier.

It is raining.

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there is fb outside the hotel room this morning.

It was raining.

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the crown point ferry from new york to vermont.

It was raining.
This ferry is here because the bridge is out. This area is near Ft. Ticonderoga (brush up on youer revolutionary war history...). If it was not raining and cold, this area is really spectacular

a bridge somewhere in the adirondacks on route 8.

It was raining

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walmart fix everything.

Larsons bike needed a battery so we will install that this morning. We will be heading up into the adirondac mtns this morning. We are starting to see the fall colors here now.

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the fourth full day of rain.

Really tired of this crap.

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america's oldest brewery

Yea na lang yeah. That was google translations interpretation.

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the missing man formation

In honor of our fallen soldier john. Fallen but not forgotten. Cold and rainy we did not make it to scranton but we did find a nice holiday inn express .

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kingston pennsylvania .

It's about 130 miles to scranton from here. It is getting colder here about 47 degrees I think and it's starting to rain again. you have to really love riding a motorcycle and we do!

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making good time now.

The sheetz somewhere north of harrisonburg virginia.

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sweet another full day of riding in the rain.

Sounds like john has somebody coming for him with a truck and he is going to head back home. Justin and I are planning our trip up into PA tonight.

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more vrod sadness.

Look at the foot controls.

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more.

John is thinking he will get a truck and take the bike back home.

Here is a link to a video of the loading fun...

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Okay that didn't end well.

The back tire slid out in a 30mph turn. John is okay the bike is not. We have the bike towed to a harley shop here in west virginia. Ironically we are back at the same hotel we stayed in last night.

The Harley shop is not open tomorrow- John is trying to find a truck to rent to take the bike back to Peoria.

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FB This is the old bridge across the new river.

We took the old school road down and this is a picture opportunity from the old bridge.

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1 more from the overlook that will go to the bridge itself

Lots of hills here. The road are very good.

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at the new river gorge bridge overlook

Fayetteville west virginia

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it looks like a breather hose is bad

That won't be too hard to fix

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checking out the oil leak before we leave

Today we will head to the new river gorge.

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Beckley WV.

550 miles. 400 in rain. Beer is good. Jack is better. FB lost speedo and left mirror is flopping around like a limp haddock. Johns bike developed an oil leak. Jack tastes good LOL.

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where you fill your sippy cup in ohio

I scored a sweet jack daniels birthday glass here.

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300 miles of rain

And it's pretty cold .

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there are 2 kinds of motorcycles

Looks like I'm going to get cleaner today

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prepped.

FB. Ready for fall colors in maine.

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key lime pie

Thanks Ren and Lou!

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Jimmy V going away party.

Jim's leaving the oracle group

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Chrysler 300s at the Volo museum

Dad and I drove up today

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Lynchburg city limits

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at the national corvette museum

will do the plant tour at 1130

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