14 Feb 12 07:10, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    RW>> That's what I thought Texas would be like, but it wasn't. I was so   
    RW>> used to the very strict dmv rules in California, being in Texas was   
    RW>> like being given your freedom after 39 years of living in a   
    RW>> dictatorship.   
      
    MH> It is reassuring to know there are states that still have freedoms   
    MH> left. Maryland is rapidly turning into California, but I still hold   
    MH> out hope for better days ahead.   
      
   That's about all you can do in a liberal state like CA. Until the people   
   figure out that it's the liberals who've screwed up their lives, they'll   
   have to live with who and what they've elected to run things.   
      
    MH> Myself and others that have stayed here to fight, will help reverse   
    MH> the damage one day.  At least that is my wishful thinking.   
      
   There may be hope for MD yet.   
      
    RW>> I make it a point to look out for the bikers. They're unseen by most   
    RW>> motorists.   
      
    MH> Same with me.  Since we have had next to no snow this winter, I'm   
    MH> ready for spring to start riding again.   
      
   Somebody should tell the crotch-rocket riders to slow down. I hear a lot   
   of radio noise, both police and CB, about bikers being stupid. Like riding   
   at 120mph on the freeway because they can. Another one got wiped out on   
   the freeway yesterday.   
      
    RW>> That's what it's like here too. The difference is that we know   
    RW>> there's a dead somthing on the side of the road by the presence of   
    RW>> vultures flying over head. If it's a squirrel, there may be one or   
    RW>> two, but a deer calls for 5 to 10 vultures.   
      
    MH> We have vultures, but they live in Annapolis and Washington D.C.  :)   
      
   They have them in Sacramento, CA too.   
      
    RW>> We had one other person from the town where I live; he wanted to   
    RW>> ride with me and a friend of mine, but I never heard from him after   
    RW>> the class ended.   
      
    MH> I used to ride with a group of friends, but it is tough to get our   
    MH> schedules together these days.   
      
   During my early years (1950s&60s) on the back of a Triumph, I used to ride   
   with a pack of locals. All mixed bikes, but all of us with the same ideas   
   of what riding was about.   
      
      
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