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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:35 am    Post subject: Famous people I have met. Reply with quote

In '73 I was in Guatemala doing a Peace Corps gig in forestry and natural resources and one weekend I go down to Panajachel on lake Atitlan (popular stop on the hippie circuit). Down by the lake one morning I see a couple squarebacks and buses and some older guy with his head in the back end of a bus. Now, I owned a panel in college so I went over to check 'em out. "Having trouble?" I ask and the old dude says something like "Aw, these people drive 3000 miles from home but they're unable to adjust their valves. So they're helping me with my trip and I'm taking them for a ride." Years later I read in the Idiot Book how he used baling wire for an accelerator cable in '73 'cause they don't sell Type 3 parts in Guatemala and realized the arrogant bastard was John Muir.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's great I still like John and his book. Very Happy lucky for those people he was there to help at all, who else would?
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:35 am    Post subject: Re: Famous people I have met. Reply with quote

Just us buses wrote:
In '73 I was in Guatemala doing a Peace Corps gig in forestry and natural resources and one weekend I go down to Panajachel on lake Atitlan (popular stop on the hippie circuit). Down by the lake one morning I see a couple squarebacks and buses and some older guy with his head in the back end of a bus. Now, I owned a panel in college so I went over to check 'em out. "Having trouble?" I ask and the old dude says something like "Aw, these people drive 3000 miles from home but they're unable to adjust their valves. So they're helping me with my trip and I'm taking them for a ride." Years later I read in the Idiot Book how he used baling wire for an accelerator cable in '73 'cause they don't sell Type 3 parts in Guatemala and realized the arrogant bastard was John Muir.


Pretty cool.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 20, 2015 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Too many to list.....
I work for a company that puts on corporate annual meetings for groups up to 16000 people.
The featured inspirational speaker can be anyone from Ex President Busch to Army General Swartzcoff.
Then for entertainment you might have Circ Du Solet or Jeff Foxworthy or another Name band..Kiss...Michel Boublais...tommy and the who.........
Note ; Jeff Foxworthy is one of the nicest people I have ever met backstage.

17 years LOTS of meetings .
It's funny ; moving equipment into some of the fanciest hotel/convention centers in the country , and it's the same old smelly dumpster and loading dock
One time in NEW York I put a 32000 pound truck into an elevator to get to the lower loading dock
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Traveling through Bristol TN back in the 90's. Its a bout 1am and I'm at a roadside diner. After eating we walk outside and there is a NASCAR rig out front. I walked up to the guy standing there and started talking about the car inside. Asking questions and stuff. He just stood there answering them with this puzzled look on his face. We talked for about 10 minutes and then I left.

Got to Texas the next day and there he is on TV. Dale Earnhardt. He was puzzled because I had no idea who he was and all I wanted to do was talk about the car and nothing else.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a pretty cool story about John Muir. My dad once met the boxer Danny Lopez. Closest thing I got.
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