RN> TW> I never did do the the Tourist ride but in my younger years I did   
   RN> TW> hike down into the Havasupai Indann reservation and ride a Horse   
   RN> TW> out, The owner wanted soem supplies form the trading post up on the   
   RN> TW> canyon rim at the head of the trail A frend and I took them up so   
   RN> TW> they could be loaded and brought back down with the next pack horse   
   RN> TW> trip.   
      
   RN>If I survive my upcoming knee surgery and go west (that sounds familiar), I   
   RN>just might be able to get on the saddle without help.  Only then will I know   
   RN>which one of us is right, although I should point out I'm not disagreeing wi   
   RN>you -- I'm just stubborn when it comes to things I've done in the past.   
      
   Ask Roy, I have a bit of stubborness myself. :-)  :-)   
   And I hear you. I tried to wrok on cars wel past the tiem when a   
   reasonable man would have given it up.. My last gasp was Oil Changes   
   and I finally had to give that up a little less then two years ago.   
   I guess  I should jsut rembember the good tiems as for over 50 years I   
   did almsot all of my repairs except Body work and Automatic   
   transmissions. And since for many years because of necessity I picked my   
   vehicles from the Consumer Reports "Worst Used Car Buy" list. I even had   
   my own Tow Bar so I could rescue the wife when her car quit. Frotunatly   
   I only had to do that four times. On one occasion I changed the timing   
   belt in the parking lot where she works. Adn twice I had to rescue me   
   secong son. He was a driver that was hard on cars. He had two Mercurt   
   Capri v-6's which had a Composition fiber tweeth of the timing grar. He   
   shucked it twice and I had to change it. It hapened enough that the   
   Mercury Dealer has a special gasket kit for Timing gear replacement.   
      
   In the last several years the Realities of Old Age have really ghit me   
   hard. I had to give up working the San Diego County Sheriffs Volunter   
   Patrol after a little over 10 years and also My playing "Apprentice   
   Machinist and General Maitenance gofer" at the Campo Railroad Museum   
   Facility also after a little over 10 years.   
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