What Did You Get To Do Growing Up That Your Kids Will Never Be Able To?

Ride a BMW motorcycle from Connecticut to Florida with a buddy on board while in high school and watch Fireball Roberts win the Firecracker 250. We probably didn't have more than $100 between us. Slept outside each night.

Tour Canada on the same bike a year later with the same friend. Have his BSA breakdown in the middle of nowhere and I pull him into the nearest town with a tree limb. AND, to have a guy pull up as we entered town, tell us where his house was and where the key was hidden. He said to use whatever tools we needed. We fixed the bike and wrote him a nice note and continued on our way.

Stop at a road side lookout dressed a leather jacket and helmet, climb to the lookout and promptly fall all the way back down the trail.

Tell fellow high school kids we had a car. When they asked to see it, we'd have them come with us to a kids house. He lived at an 80 acre gravel bank and we'd take them for a ride they will never forget. Car was a '36 Ford that was given to us. We found it in the woods. The RR corner was jacked up and the fender removed. A long belt was around the tire and was connected to a circular saw blade about 3' in diameter. Someone had cut all the available trees and left it there. The trees had grown back by the time we found it!

There is no way today's kids could have as much fun as we did back then. Freedom is the key and sadly it is being taken away bit by bit each day.