What takes you back in time?
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.......baby.
There, get that out of your head........
There, get that out of your head........
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Absolutely right on this one Curtis...the smells on a morning ride will throw me back to my youth as well. Growing up in the country has it's advantages.
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The love between Adam and Eve... In the Garden of Eden.
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On my morning ride, watching two young boys about 8 or 9 zooming on their bikes in and around the trail, going off into the brush on the accompanying horse trail, having a ball.
That reminded me of me at that age.
I would hate to live in an area without kids.
They had helmets on, I didn't!
That reminded me of me at that age.
I would hate to live in an area without kids.
They had helmets on, I didn't!
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The only happiness I had growing up was the time spent on my bike
in my teen years. It was the only escape I had from a miserable childhood
environment of growing up in a house where I obviously was unwanted, and
felt totally unloved. Back then I had wished I'ld never even been born and
came close to doing something about it a couple of times.
So these days my aimless wandering on any of my bikes brings me back to those
old feelings of peaceful stolen moments from a miserable first 18 years or
so. Good old Rock will take me back to my late teens and early 20's where also
I had almost total freedom and escape from those old childhood problems, only
back then I was sitting in a bar guzzling ales.
So for me it's riding a bike and good old Rock & Roll, and occasionally the fisrt sip
of a nice cold beer.
in my teen years. It was the only escape I had from a miserable childhood
environment of growing up in a house where I obviously was unwanted, and
felt totally unloved. Back then I had wished I'ld never even been born and
came close to doing something about it a couple of times.
So these days my aimless wandering on any of my bikes brings me back to those
old feelings of peaceful stolen moments from a miserable first 18 years or
so. Good old Rock will take me back to my late teens and early 20's where also
I had almost total freedom and escape from those old childhood problems, only
back then I was sitting in a bar guzzling ales.
So for me it's riding a bike and good old Rock & Roll, and occasionally the fisrt sip
of a nice cold beer.
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Xm To Go
I was listening to the 60s channel on XM radio yesterday (XM channel 6). They were playing the top 20 from 1963 (I think). I heard "Surfer Joe". Brought back happy memories when I was 19 and in the Air Force, stationed in California. I could still "see" all those nice young things prancing around the beach in their bikinis.
Hey XM, thanks for the memories.
Hey XM, thanks for the memories.
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Flashbacks are all I have been having when I ride lately. I was born and raised in San Diego. Left when I was 18 and now back home after nearly 30 years.
DG took me for my maiden voyage at Lake Miramar. This is where my dad used to take me fishing.
We rode around Balboa Park for my 2nd ride. The park was like a 2nd home to me in my teens.
We also went for a ride and happen to go down the same exact bike path that I rode to JR. High every day.
It's been surreal (in a good way).
DG took me for my maiden voyage at Lake Miramar. This is where my dad used to take me fishing.
We rode around Balboa Park for my 2nd ride. The park was like a 2nd home to me in my teens.
We also went for a ride and happen to go down the same exact bike path that I rode to JR. High every day.
It's been surreal (in a good way).
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On my morning ride, watching two young boys about 8 or 9 zooming on their bikes in and around the trail, going off into the brush on the accompanying horse trail, having a ball.
That reminded me of me at that age.
I would hate to live in an area without kids.
They had helmets on, I didn't!
That reminded me of me at that age.
I would hate to live in an area without kids.
They had helmets on, I didn't!
What takes me back? Wow, what doesn't, you know?
Like young Double Deuce, I live now where I grew up. Same house, in fact.
It's hard NOT to encounter something that puts me back somewhere in the past.
But, for me, the biggest thing is music. Any given song at any given time makes me a Billy Pilgrim.
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Isn't that the truth! Life should come with a soundtrack... don't you think?
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When I go into the local feed store on occasion it takes me back to when I was 9 or 10 and we used to ride our bikes to the grain elevator store and buy a coke. All of the smells of grain, horse feed, I can almost smell it now. Just the other day on the ride home from work I passed a cow pasture and it reminded me of when we use to ride to Petey Youngs dairy and watch him milk the cows and tell us big stories.
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There are fwe places that take me back to that time in our lives when we were preparing to take on the world. My college (Va Tech) doesn't do it - everything I remember has been changed - many of the old buildings are there but there are so many new ones and expanded ones it just isn't the same - and the town has changed so much. Where I grew up in Northern VA is all different - even my old neighborhood has changed. I have fond memories of trips through WVa - driving to IL to see my girlfriend (now my wife) - but the turnpike is all different since it went to 4 lanes in the 80's. There is little that gives me a flashback.
I long to hit some of the emotional highs I had at that age when all was new and I didn't know all the things that "don't work". Ignorance of youth is a blissful state. The more experience I get the more depressing life seems to be.
I long to hit some of the emotional highs I had at that age when all was new and I didn't know all the things that "don't work". Ignorance of youth is a blissful state. The more experience I get the more depressing life seems to be.
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The only happiness I had growing up was the time spent on my bike
in my teen years. It was the only escape I had from a miserable childhood
environment of growing up in a house where I obviously was unwanted, and
felt totally unloved. Back then I had wished I'ld never even been born and
came close to doing something about it a couple of times.
So these days my aimless wandering on any of my bikes brings me back to those
old feelings of peaceful stolen moments from a miserable first 18 years or
so. Good old Rock will take me back to my late teens and early 20's where also
I had almost total freedom and escape from those old childhood problems, only
back then I was sitting in a bar guzzling ales.
So for me it's riding a bike and good old Rock & Roll, and occasionally the fisrt sip
of a nice cold beer.
in my teen years. It was the only escape I had from a miserable childhood
environment of growing up in a house where I obviously was unwanted, and
felt totally unloved. Back then I had wished I'ld never even been born and
came close to doing something about it a couple of times.
So these days my aimless wandering on any of my bikes brings me back to those
old feelings of peaceful stolen moments from a miserable first 18 years or
so. Good old Rock will take me back to my late teens and early 20's where also
I had almost total freedom and escape from those old childhood problems, only
back then I was sitting in a bar guzzling ales.
So for me it's riding a bike and good old Rock & Roll, and occasionally the fisrt sip
of a nice cold beer.
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I grew up in a little town along the Little Miami Scenic Trail. Each time I ride this section of the trail I take a detour and ride the streets around town. I love seeing the places I went to school, the house where I lived, my grandparent's old house, the old swimming hole, the restaurant that was a regular stop after school, etc. I often run into old school mates or their parents. I'm so glad I grew up in a small town
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If you did it on a footbike, you would take in alot more! I guess you know that tho, don't you?
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But seriously -and I almost hate to bring it up- does anyone know someone from their childhood who fell and mortally hit their head on the pavement? I don't.
I believe it helmets and wear one every time out but sometimes I think we're getting a little paranoid about life in general. But, I always wear my seatbelt, too, so... ???
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OK,
Let's see - do I have this right?
You wear a seatbelt while bicycling and a helmet while driving?
Also, in the 50+ forum, you never quite know who is posting, and it could be someone from the "other world!"
Have a great night.
Let's see - do I have this right?
You wear a seatbelt while bicycling and a helmet while driving?
Also, in the 50+ forum, you never quite know who is posting, and it could be someone from the "other world!"
Have a great night.