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Hi All, It has been a looooooong time since I've been on the site here. Teresa and I have had some crazy things come up in our lives the past couple years that have taken our focus off of riding. We have occasionally gotten on the bike for maybe a short ride to go eat or something here and there, but probably haven't put more than a couple thousand miles on it the past couple years combined. IN the past couple years, we have dealt with: Me having 2 heart events that required hospital stays, and surgeries. The last one this past June 2020 was an event that happened while I was playing golf. My heart went into ventricle tachycardia, which resulted in my heart stopping, and me having to be carried to the ER, and hospital for a weeks stay, and a defibrillator installed. We're also dealing with two ailing mothers,, one of which we've had to move into our home to live with us. This has taken up great amounts of our time, dealing with selling my moms house and property and all of the work to get that completed. As well as Teresa having to go stay a day or two per week with my 93 yr old mother in law to help her. The list goes on and on. It has been a strange couple of years for us. We still have the 2007 RSTD that prompted me to become a member here way back in 2008. She's still a beaut, and runs well after all these years. She has taken us to 37 states over the years. Buuuuut.......We have been kind of losing interest with riding, due in large part with my heart health issues. With the defibrillator installed now, we have a concern that if we ever did go down, it could be a serious situation with the electrical connections and such with my heart and the defibrillator. We are getting to the age where going down just isn't something we want to deal with, or at least we want to reduce the chance of it happening as much as possible. However, we both agree that we aren't finished with our desires to drink the wind, and experience the therapy that we all know comes with riding out in the open air across this beautiful nation of ours. So..........this past October 7th, we purchased a brand new 2020 Can Am Spyder RT Limited. Big beautiful red/black machine that has completely won our hearts. We purchased it on October 7th, and two days later, put it on a trailer and towed it to Flagstaff AZ. Left our truck and trailer at an RV park in Flagstaff, and rode the new Spyder on a 1250 mile loop around northern AZ, southern Utah, and eastern NV. Took me a few days to get used to the thing, but now we are flat out excited to have it! It runs and rides smooth as a baby's behind, and has all of the fancy dancy thingamabobbers you can get on bikes nowadays. And, it comes with a far more secure feeling of not having to worry as much about going down. I know the rule; I'll post pics soon. I just wanted to jump on and say hi to all of my old friends, and say hi to a lot of new names I haven't seen before on the site. Please accept my apology for taking a loooong break. I'm baaaack! Big Lenny.

SNOW. Someone mentioned SNOW?? I heard that parts of CA are getting 6 to 8 FEET of snow from this storm... Now that sounds like fun...

That I can believe from this group. Everyone I have talked to has been friendly and helpful.

Fond memories of those times!!

Thanks @luvmy40 for the call. Need to step up a relay of members. Everyone ride it a few miles. That would be awesome. LMAO. United the north and south, east and west. A thought have a 83 venture relay . Pass the bike from member to member . Everyone ride and sign it , post a picture or video riding it. Maybe have yamaha sponsor a new bike to compare old with new.

May she rest in peace and may your family find comfort in knowing she loved you until the end and she is now in a better place with your father.

Condolences to you and your family.

We will be keeping your mom, you and the entire family in our Prayers.

We stay at Vogel State Park, several people camp and some stay in local motels. Everyone is welcome no matter what ride or drive and you can look up past Vogels to see what fun is had.

I hope so. I'm ridin a Victory and it looks like we could make this. Depending on when school starts back for me. This year I didnt have to be back until the 17th.

to send up well wishes for my mother. She’s been battling Alzheimer’s for a few years and it seems she’s at the end of the fight. 80 years and raising 2daughters and 5 sons probably drove her to this. I don’t know how they did it and didn’t kill us. To top it off today would’ve been dad’s 83rd birthday.

Two days ago we had a forcast of being windy for the next couple of days... Ha!! After the two days of almost hurricane winds and horizontal rain, and my back yard looks like a war zone. The big tent lost it's cover and it blew the covers off my 3 RSV's that were inside. My patio umbrella ended up on the other side of the yard against the fence and had to have leaped over the power lines and a tree to get there. The pole was still laying there, but my 50# umbrella base is missing in action?? Shingles off the roof.. tarps somewhere in the Sierras.. Today light winds and rain. The RSV's are getting soaked. And this is California folks... 🙂

The fight is over, Mom passed peacefully in her sleep 4:30 a.m. this morning.