Brutkey

GentleMan Gef
@SecularJeffrey@ohai.social

My oldest friend is still a man of adventure!

We met in 1981!

He lives in Idaho now. This week they drove up to the mountains at about six thousand feet to find some snow for cross country skiing.

He is my age (early 60s) and there is no way my knees or stamina is up to that these days.

A skier in a blue jacket glides through a snowy landscape, surrounded by tall, snow-covered trees. In the foreground, ski poles and skis are partially buried in the snow. A small, snow-covered tree is nearby, while a vehicle is visible A person stands on a snowy mountain summit, wearing ski gear and sunglasses. They are skiing with poles in hand, surrounded by snow-covered trees and distant mountain ranges under a cloudy sky. A person is standing on a snowy slope, wearing sunglasses and winter sports gear. They are holding a ski pole and have a purple ski on one foot. The background features distant mountains and a cloudy sky, indicating a mountainous landscape.
GentleMan Gef
@SecularJeffrey@ohai.social

A few years after we met, I bought his motorcycle when he got a new one.

He had spent a few summers in Alaska on a fish buying boat.

We went up to Valdez together. Ferry from Bellingham WA to South East Alaska. From there we still had to drive about 1100 miles through the Yukon and then back into Alaska.

At the end of the summer, he rode back all the way, I put mine on a company boat heading back to my home town Port Angeles WA.
#motorcycle

GentleMan Gef
@SecularJeffrey@ohai.social

The friend I rode to Alaska with, just sent me this photo from the trip at random. I am in the middle!

ca 1983

#motorcycles

Antanicus
@antanicus@puntarella.party

@SecularJeffrey@ohai.social I wasn't even born when this pic was taken and yet I feel the strongest nostalgia for those years, weird

GentleMan Gef
@SecularJeffrey@ohai.social

@antanicus@puntarella.party

I was in my early twenties, and INVINCIBLE!