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Title: Wow, what a trip!
Post by: Chilly Willy on November 07, 2006, 11:11:11 PM
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136505
Title: Re: Wow, what a trip!
Post by: Blingmasta on November 07, 2006, 11:50:30 PM
how much of that did you read?
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Post by: makenzie71 on November 07, 2006, 11:51:05 PM
I doubt he read much because, if I caught my cliffs right, the guy didn't go anywhere.
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Post by: yamahonkawazuki on November 07, 2006, 11:53:33 PM
aye didnt end too well, but damn that dude has spirit  :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:
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Post by: Blingmasta on November 07, 2006, 11:54:23 PM
Well, he got halfway through Mexico before his bike met a donkey, paralyzed from the nipples down.
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Post by: rangerbrown on November 08, 2006, 08:04:45 AM
damn the nipples down?  that sucks
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Post by: Chilly Willy on November 08, 2006, 11:36:02 AM
Hi gang,

I did read the entire thread and again repeat, wow, what a trip!  This guy has amazingly inspirational story--from the energy and sense of adventure he embodied in planning and carrying out this trip to the sobering reminder that something equally chaotic could happen to any of us when we go out for a ride to his current challenge (and bravery) of facing law school as a paraplegic.

I found the following quote in one of the posts particularly moving:

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Chilly
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Post by: makenzie71 on November 08, 2006, 11:41:51 AM
Wow...I thought the only thing helen keller ever said was "oliskeeellooooghhghhlle".
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Post by: Stephen072774 on November 08, 2006, 11:49:57 AM
thanks for posting, very sobering.
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Post by: Turd Ferguson on November 08, 2006, 12:43:43 PM
Quote from: makenzie71 on November 08, 2006, 11:41:51 AM
Wow...I thought the only thing helen keller ever said was "oliskeeellooooghhghhlle".

Holy shaZam!, Mak.
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Post by: Blingmasta on November 08, 2006, 01:02:46 PM
THat's basically right tho, isn't it? I mean how could she speak or even write out thoughts? she couldn't see or hear. How do you learn the english language when you're like that? Or learn anything for that matter.
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Post by: Blingmasta on November 08, 2006, 01:10:42 PM
I just read up on helen keller and I retract most of that question, although all she ever said probably was  oliskeeellooooghhghhlle.
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Post by: jake42 on November 08, 2006, 03:03:22 PM
read up a little bit more and you;ll learn a little more. She wasn't retarded, unlike some of the posters in this thread.

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Post by: makenzie71 on November 08, 2006, 04:08:30 PM
Who said she was retarded?
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Post by: Egaeus on November 09, 2006, 06:53:30 PM
I didn't read this thread before I read the story.  I was all psyched about the trip he was taking and just about fell out of my chair when it ended.