Dreams Die Fast
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My gypsy spirit has taken me to some strange places in the world, but now I’m content to limit my adventures to riding a motorcycle and whatever I might encounter when I’m on the road. I’ve worked in bike shops doing odd jobs from planning and putting on rides, taking care of computer networking and security, and to picking up and delivering motorcycles in the El Lay basin, among other things.
Pretty boring stuff, isn’t it?
I’ve ridden over a lot of North America at one time or another from Canada to Mexico and from Atlantic to Pacific. By far my favorite ride is up and down the length of the Baja Peninsula, where the people are friendly, the sun always shines and it’s warm in the winter.
I’ve visited Sturgis countless times, but that got old in the ‘80s. If you want to capture the Sturgis of old, attend during the week before the actual rally, when the RUBs and newbies aren’t there. More and more vendors are setting up for that early week before the main event.
Of everything that I have experienced in my all-too-brief life, Africa is perhaps the greatest enigma. It’s a beautiful continent, rich in people, nature and resources, yet poor in all of those things too.
Yes, I know. There are some missing years in there. But what the hell, a little mystery is good for the soul, wouldn’t you say?
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First Time & Other Stories (2010) Frank is on the road, hitting all the high spots (or the low spots, depending on your point of view). These short stories find him at a peeler bar off the 15 in Montana; encountering a hitch-hiker off the 10 in New Mexico; being sweet-talked by his landlady; romancing a truck-driving sweetheart in a sleeper at a California truck stop; flirting with a waitress in a restaurant in the high desert.
Frank’s weakness for dark-haired, dark-eyed women is often his downfall, but this time he’s just enjoying what life has to offer while he’s on the road.
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Midnight At The Oasis (2011) Frank Ross is headed down Mexico way, but first he has to escape from the high desert and the clutches of a sweet-talking, nimble little thing that has spun her web and led Frank down the road to good intentions gone bad. Following a trial by fire, Frank manages to get back on the road, but not before narrowly escaping a damsel in much distress when he refuses to take her along for the ride.
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Two Good Eyes (2011) Frank usually treats his female riding partners pretty good, but when his latest gets t-boned by a left-turner, he has to dig deep within to care for her while she recovers in ICU. This title has been expanded and re-published as "One More Time".
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Dead Man's Hand (2011) One man's intricate ring becomes another's folly in this short strange tale of a dead man who was unable to rest in peace.
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One More Time (2011) Frank Ross is back on the road, this time with a sweet little riding partner he hooks up with in a bike shop in the desert. After getting acquainted during a ride to Big Bear, they stop off for a visit at Frank’s place in Cherry Valley. The asphalt perfume they both picked up on the ride gets washed away during an impromptu shower. Breakfast follows. Later, when Frank learns that his new riding partner was t-boned by a left-turning cage, he decides to forgo his devil-may-care attitude and hunker down for a bit to care for his seriously injured riding partner and show her that he has a heart.
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