jthornton
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Well I did have key limeade and love the green water. I used to love to see the blue water when I flew out to the rigs in the Gulf and the Atlantic flying from west Africa.
JT
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Key West or Bust
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Well I did have key limeade and love the green water. I used to love to see the blue water when I flew out to the rigs in the Gulf and the Atlantic flying from west Africa.
JT
jthornton
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lookerjdc
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sorry I saw this post after you were already into your trip - I would have asked you to stop by my house in Melbourne, FL while you were heading north on the east side of FL...
will catch you next time
regards
Jeff
jthornton
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Ok will do.
Day 9 Lynchburg mile 2750. We stayed at a really neat B&B and got a great breakfast.
JT
jthornton
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Time Flies
We were heading north on I75 south of Atlanta, I'm in the middle lane behind Don and Pearl and a Toyota car of some kind was slightly ahead of Don in the inside lane. We are cruising along at ~70mph and I see the grill of the Toyota come off and fly up an over the car. It's spinning like the kites you used to see at the beach in the 80's. The spinning has gyro stabilized the grill so it stays horizontal as it flies back. I think to my self wow the grill came off that Toyota... quickly my thoughts change as I see the trajectory of the grill is sending it into my lane. I do some very quick calculations on lift, drag, gravitational attraction and trajectory and determine that there is a 96% chance that I'm going to eat the grill. I'm not hungry at the moment and don't care for plastic anyway so not having much time to think about what I might do I decide the thing to do is take the defensive posture of tilting my head to head butt the grill and hopefully send it up and over my wife who is sitting behind me.
My calculations were off a few inches in the vertical and the grill hit the Goldwing on the nose just below the windshield. It broke in two pieces instantly with one spinning clockwise and flying to the outside lane and one spinning counter clockwise and flying to the inside lane.
All of this happened in less than 5 seconds... not even enough time to take any actions to avoid it. A real eye opener for sure.
JT
We were heading north on I75 south of Atlanta, I'm in the middle lane behind Don and Pearl and a Toyota car of some kind was slightly ahead of Don in the inside lane. We are cruising along at ~70mph and I see the grill of the Toyota come off and fly up an over the car. It's spinning like the kites you used to see at the beach in the 80's. The spinning has gyro stabilized the grill so it stays horizontal as it flies back. I think to my self wow the grill came off that Toyota... quickly my thoughts change as I see the trajectory of the grill is sending it into my lane. I do some very quick calculations on lift, drag, gravitational attraction and trajectory and determine that there is a 96% chance that I'm going to eat the grill. I'm not hungry at the moment and don't care for plastic anyway so not having much time to think about what I might do I decide the thing to do is take the defensive posture of tilting my head to head butt the grill and hopefully send it up and over my wife who is sitting behind me.
My calculations were off a few inches in the vertical and the grill hit the Goldwing on the nose just below the windshield. It broke in two pieces instantly with one spinning clockwise and flying to the outside lane and one spinning counter clockwise and flying to the inside lane.
All of this happened in less than 5 seconds... not even enough time to take any actions to avoid it. A real eye opener for sure.
JT
jthornton
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Hi Roger,
And I hate it when random idiots are near you. Later on the same day we are cruising down the interstate and a car comes from the on ramp and pulls into the outside lane. The rear tire of the car is just about even with my front tire. I'm enjoying the ride and have my feet up on the highway pegs but for some reason I'm keeping the car in the corner of my eye as it seems to be making a move to my lane. Sure enough it just changes lanes and I grab a big handful of front brake and my front tire just misses the bumper by a few inches... damn idiot drivers.
JT
PrairieSpyder
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Looks like you're doing some antique-shopping, too!
PrairieSpyder
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I hope you got the tag number of the Toyota so his insurance could pay for the damages.
jthornton
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That is the common room of the Bed & Breakfast we stayed at last night. It's a really neat place an old mill that was in operation up to '95 and has most of the equipment still in place. If your ever near Lynchburg and want a place to stay I highly recommend it.
Also right down the road is a fun place to eat Granny Fishes House, if you don't know where it is you will never find it. And they really do have the best hush puppies in town...
JT
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jthornton
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It happened so fast there was not time to focus on the tag... good thing the GoldWing is tough or the Toyota grill is weak as I can not find any damage on my GoldWing.
JT
