May 1975, Motorcycle Journey across Eastern US

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For the next few Blog posts I will be putting 1 to 3 minute videos out of old vacations taken from when I was a child all the way to with my family now. These will be from all over the world. After all “ We Make Your Home Movies Memorable Again” , that is our business. Now with all this being said:
Welcome to our 7th, installment of our traveling blogs.
The year is 1975, the month is May. My college roommate and I are riding our motorcycles from Nacogdoches,Texas cross country thru Florida, the Cumberland Gap to Washington DC and on to Ohio to visit our other roommate. We are all on the 3 week break before summer school starts.
Ray , my roommate, and I had a lot of strange adventures and I will just touch on a few of the strangest.
Starting out : Ray on a Yamaha 650. Bill on a Water Cooled Suzuki 750, (still my favorite out of the 12 bikes that I have owned). 1975  s_20151108_0002 (1)
1st day we drove all the way to New Orleans. You could definitely tell the difference in highways when we hit Louisiana.1975  s_20151108_0002 (4)
Florida:
The next few days we stopped in Pensacola and Panama City. Ray had all the problems in these 2 locations. We got kicked out of the campground we were staying in because of his loud pipes (we were told “damn bikers”), and then around 9 at night a dog jumped into his head light. When we pulled over the owner of the dog started beating the hell out of him. No worries the dog was fine. 1975  s_20151108_0002 (2)Next morning we told Florida adios and onto DC via Georgia and a pouring rain thru the Cumberland Gap. I do remember the semis going up the steep grades and it was raining so hard they would lose grip and start to slide back at us.IMG mayo_20151110_0001
Washington DC : looked at sights for a day and then off to Columbus,Ohio to visit our other roommate. IMG mayo_20151110_0003
The almost Big Bust:
remember the year is 1975, 2 guys traveling on motorcycles were considered, by rednecks, ( see Florida above) and all highway patrol alike, as outlaw bikers even though they are on Japanese bikes and one was a 2 cycle rice rocket to boot. 1975  s_20151108_0002 (6) So here we are cruising down the Ohio highway and the trooper pulls us over, jumps out of his car, levels his gun at us and tells us to lay face down on the ground. As it turns out at about the same time he pulled us over they actually caught the 2 guys on bikes that had just robbed the store 50 or so miles back, roughly an hour earlier, riding west, same as us, on the same highway that we were on. I hate to think what kind of crap we would have gone thru if they had not caught those guys. Every time I see the movie,” My Cousin Vinnie” it reminds of that moment.
Falling asleep on the Suzuki: on our way back to Texas going thru Missouri Ray honked his horn at me and literally for the last 3 to 5 miles I could not remember anything. We pulled over to get coffee and I asked him why he honked his horn? His response was my “ my mouth was not moving”. Now you have to realize that whenever I ride a motorcycle I am ALWAYS singing. It is something I have always done to concentrate on the road. So for 1800 miles my mouth was always moving except for this last 5 miles or so. Luckily Ray noticed or it would have been a pretty nasty crash at 80mph. Moral of this story is never wear a yellow snow ski face shield.1975  s_20151108_0002 (8)
Well that’s it for the 7th installment. Hope you enjoyed it, and as always if you have any questions or need any Video Slide Shows with music background, VHS or Sony8 video, photo, or audio to DVD, CD, or Digital File conversions done, please call , email, or check out our website. Until our next blog,
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