You know me. I tell just reality in my stories

Korean Kiss Scene 2016 You know me. I tell just reality in my stories. (Generally.) So perhaps this once I told a major falsehood, to make sure I could recount a far and away superior story that is entirely (for the most part.) Was it worth the penance of my exceptionally soul? You choose.

Jim Ottea and I had been cruising through Colorado for a few days, he on his Yamaha FJR, me on my BMW K1200LT. After just about two weeks out and about, the outing was almost over, however the fun was most certainly not. To the extent we're concerned, it's not over 'til it's over. Individuals have been harmed attempting to demonstrate us off-base.

We'd been laying our bicycles down sufficiently low to kiss the asphalt up close Telluride, making a trip from Silverton to a little town called Ouray (claimed "OO-beam") where the reductions are sweet and the drop-offs are steep. The streets were so fine we burned through two days on them, staying over one night in an adjacent town so we could play on Highway 550 over and over.

Slowing down into Ouray on our last day in the area, I took off of the last clip and pulled up beside Jim on a street side draw off, with Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gada-Da-Vida impacting out of the speakers on the Beemer.

"How often have you listened to that record?" Jim asked, perhaps irritated for having heard it blasting at the last 3 or 4 stops. (I'm likewise not certain he was totally alright with my needing to play my ABBA CD at whatever point we'd pull up close Harley folks in their calfskins and do-clothes.)

"Around seven," I replied, "I simply discovered it toward the beginning of today in my CD case. Entirely decent stuff, huh? Ever hear this melody?"

Jim grunted, and I proceeded with, "The drum solo alone is useful for 20 miles, even on these winding streets." I turned it up somewhat more for his listening happiness, without a moment to spare for the melody's dramatic finale.

"Better believe it, no doubt, definitely," he jumped, clearly envious of my six-compact disc changer. I shrugged, and we pulled back onto the thruway and away, made a beeline for Gunnison and focuses east - the general bearing of home, albeit neither of us needed to face that revolting actuality, not yet.

The following day we were en route to flatboat the Royal Gorge, in spite of the fact that we didn't understand we were headed to pontoon it, for adroitly, that experience hadn't yet struck us. We maneuvered into a little stop where the Arkansas River storms past a wooden deck neglecting the water. On the stage stood a child around 20 years of age, snapping photos of the white water rafters as they sprinkled along in the rapids beneath (to offer at incredible costs when they came back to the rafting organization's home office.)

While Jim backtracked to his cruiser, without a doubt to see where he may have the capacity to mount a six-cd changer and 8-speaker sound framework on a FJR, the young fellow and I visited about his employment and his cameras, about existence all in all and about nothing specifically,

"Hey," the child said to me, out of Jim's listening ability, "Anybody ever tell your companion he resembles a demigod?"

I reclined against the railing, taking in the full warmth of the sun, and answered with indifference, "Amusing you ought to say that. Which one do you think he resembles?"

I definitely knew where I was running with this. I am the Bad Ted, and this was just too simple.

"All things considered, I'm not certain, but rather he looks well known. He just appears as though some hero I may have seen some place."

"Somebody as of late said he looks like Keith Richards," I recommended. "You think?"

"Goodness, better believe it," the child concurred, vivified now. "Hey," he included, more confident than dicey, "He's not, would he say he is? Keith Richards?"

"Nah," I snickered. "But..." I coaxed it out as though I was reluctant to uncover A Really Big Secret, then yielded.

"Have you ever known about a band called Iron Butterfly?"

"Yeah...?" ("C'mon," his eyes argued, "you're going to let me know he's somebody truly cool, right?! I KNEW it!")

"Have you ever known about a melody brought In-A-Gada-Da-Vida?"

"Better believe it!"

"Jim played the drum solo on that melody," I admitted, with emotional hesitance. "That is Jim Ottea, man. That is HIM!"

"No poop? Stunning! Hey, I play drums, as well."

"Approach him for his signature when he gets back, he'll happy to offer it to you."

About this time, Jim returned walking around the wooden wharf, and as he drew nearer, I declared, "Jim, I told this person you played the drum solo for Iron Butterfly on In-A-Gada-Da-Vida. Think he needs your signature."