Road trip

My buddy Matt called , He thinks I need to get out of here for a while . I tried to let him know how bad my health is right now and all the crap I have to do every day because of my catheter . He said “not a thing” that he's ok with it and we are going to have a few beers and hang out in his garage . Matt's garage ….. His house is a two bedroom small affair . His garage is big enough for five or six cars And a bar . I put the bar in about five or so years ago so I would have a place to sit . Big bar , Five bar stools , holders over head for thirty wine glasses and a fridge under neath . I mean a bar .

He has two buicks One a grand National both built to the max . One is black and good looking , The other is ,,,Well not so good looking but is fast . He plans to sell the good looking grand nat and build the other into his next drag car . He wants to pick my brains {what little I have left} on the paint scream .

I used to build show bike's . Never won anything ,,,, paint was my thing back then But I liked them . You people would like matt , He's a 20 year navy vet retired jet mechanic . And he does like to go fast . He has several Z cars 240 260 and 280 z's and a 300 z . His only real fault is he has to turbo every thing . unless he can super charge it . I can't explain how a old retired navy vet and a ex biker/retired gold miner met and became friends ,, It just happened . He was good friend to my late wife as well .

The last time he and I road bikes together was the “shoe tree” run . That's a tree on HY' 50 , The lonest road in Navada . It's out by a place called Middle Gate . Legend is a Navada man , back in the late 1880 or so married a Morman woman from salt lake that bitched and moaned so much on the buggy trip to Fallon Navada that he threw her shoe's up into the tree and told her to walk home . To this day people throw shoe's up into the tree . It stink's like gym locker there . But at middle gate is a bar with the best hamburger's . Or after the trip to get there anything would taste good . And the beer is cold . Maybe it's after the stink of the shoe tree anything else is good by comparison .

It's been awhile since Matt and road together , He used to ride with me prospecting gold claims . He didn't know what he was doing but he had fun doing it . I would trailer my quads out to a good spot and we would ride into some pretty rough places . One place we found was Fort Defiance . A long lost cavalry fort that was to prevent Indian's from pyramid lake frum attacking Verginia city . Once we saw a bunch of high dollar S.U.V.s coming up the trail and they were full of ladies of the evening on their day off . They all had to stop and chat with us and we became good friends with them .

We found a place called Shady Run , They took out close to 20 million out of there in 1910 . Another was Copper Ried . And Horse shoe bend . I took twenty once's out of there .

All good time's ,,,,,,, and good beer after a long day hunting for gold . Nothing is better then sitting around a camp fire relaxing with a cold beer and good friends .