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Above: A park bench is a great place to relax and downshift to the pace of the lazy river. Right: Bridges over the mighty Mississippi are tall and majestic.
child’ s toy, throwing Gary to the ground with a crushed foot and broken hip. He watched his windscreen spiral into the sky, on its way to Oz. It was never found. Trapped under the bike, unable to move, he thought he would drown before help arrived. A year of therapy, not to mention work on the bike, and he was ready to ride.
I was coming off a situation only slightly less extreme. For a year, my wife and I had tried to sell our house. The process involves something called“ decluttering.” Not unlike living in a padded cell while a stream of strangers walked through my life. My BMW had been imprisoned in the garage, behind a wall of cardboard boxes. It had taken me two days to dig out my riding gear and prep the bike.
Dick was slowly handing his photo studio over to his