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| Name: Pete | | Age: 57 | | City: Beach area of San Diego, California | | Country: | United States |
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| Hobbies: I'm a retired Architect . . . currently livin' each day to the max . . . one of my favorite phrases: "Nobody ever lay on his death bed sayin' 'Gee, wish I had WORKED harder in life!' " . . . The background pic on my channel is me standin' on the edge of the 4,000+ foot dropoff at the top of Half Dome in Yosemite Nat'l Park . . . (yep, I'm a lifelong "Adrenaline Junkie" . . . goin' 155mph on a motorcycle, ridin' horses & wave runners at full speed, downhill mountain bike racing . . . I've only had two broken bones in my life tho' . . not bad! LOL) For the indefinite future YouTube will still be my main video website & have all my videos. My channel there is at: http://www.youtube.com/LifeJourneyGuy, but I'll be puttin' some of my favorite videos on here. Hope you like them :) Thanx for stoppin' by!! . . . OK, yeah. . . "Hobbies": Bicycling, Swimming, Body Surfing, Snorkeling/Free Diving, Motorcycling, Archery, Tennis, Xbox 360!!, Photography, & Malted Milk Shakes (with EXTRA malt!!! LOL | | Movies: Moulin Rouge, Casablanca, Lost in Translation, Forrest Gump, any movie that Johnny Depp has done (amazing actor), Woody Allen movies, old movies on Turner Classic Movies . . . | | Music: Any of the great music from England and rest of Great Britain, adult contemporary, country, some rap . . . favorite song: Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy . . . who died WAYYYYY before her time!! :( . . . there's a video entitled "Fields of Gold" in my video section, if you want to listen to her version of the song. | | Books: Those by Stephen King and Dean Koontz (many nonreaders of their work probably don't realize the extremely deep understanding, and insights, these two authors have of the human condition); favorite book series: The Dark Tower, by King (takes a while to 'get into' the story line, but the series is INCREDIBLE in its use of King's genius imagination in the plot) . . . favorite individual book . . . tough to pick out, but . . . probably Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis |
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| |  | “Hiking up Moro Rock”
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Not to be confused with Morro Rock (with TWO Rs) in Morro Bay, California, this is a video of the fun hike to the top of 6,725 foot high Moro Rock, located more...in Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
The two “mountain” songs used in the video are: “There Is A Mountain” by Donovan, and “Go Tell It On A Mountain” by Peter, Paul & Mary. less
Added: 1 day ago
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Category: Travel & Places |
|  | "Hollister Motorcycle Rally", California
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Here are some video clips I took of the peaceful solitude that can be found at 6:30 AM at the 2008 Hollister Motorcycle Rally in California. This tranquil more...time of day is obviously BEFORE approximately 130,000 bikers and spectators arrive at the event!
The photos of the bikes and bikers that follow the video clips are ones I took at the Hollister Motorcycle Rally in 2003. The two songs I used for the video are “Solitary Man” by Neil Diamond and “Born to Be Wild” by Steppenwolf.
The Hollister Motorcycle Rally is known worldwide as “the birthplace of the American biker”, with bikers attending from as far away as France and Australia. The vendors at this event make Hollister the largest motorcycle marketplace in the west.
This event got its historic birth on the 1947 Fourth of July weekend, when approximately 4,000 motorcyclists descended on the sleepy little town of Hollister, California and created havoc. This invasion was the spark that eventually led to what is arguably the quintessential outlaw biker movie of all time, entitled “The Wild One” in 1953, starring Marlon Brando as “Johnny”, and Lee Marvin as “Chino”. At one point in the movie Johnny is guzzling beer and dancing with some of the ladies in the bar, and one female dance partner questions Johnny: “Hey, Johnny, What are you rebelling AGAINST?” While tapping out a jazzy beat on the top of the jukebox, Marlon Brando raises his eyebrow and drawls his amorphous reason for rebellion: “What’ve you GOT!?”
For more historical perspective on the 1947 biker riot, here is an account from the time from the San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.cestcop.com/chron1.htm
and a followup article from July 6, 1947: http://www.cestcop.com/chron2.htm
Here is an excerpt from the articles:
HOLLISTER. July, 5 1947
State Highway patrolmen tonight imposed informal martial law in downtown Hollister to curb the riotous activities of an estimated 4000.
Almost 60 persons were injured, three of them seriously. Several more arrests were made and a special night court session was convened to punish those charged with reckless driving and drunkenness.
The outburst of terrorism - wrecking of bars, bottle barrages into the streets from upper story windows and roofs and high speed racing of motorcycles though the streets - came as participants in the annual "Gypsy Tour" sponsored by the American Motorcycle Association converged on Hollister for a three-day meeting.
Armed with tear gas guns, the officers herded the cyclists into a block on San Benito street, between Fifth and Sixth streets, parked a dance band on a truck and ordered the musicians to play.
Hundreds of individuals who invaded the town yesterday for the motorcycle show, about 10 percent of them women, halted their riotous "play" to dance. Their formal ball at the American Legion Hall was canceled by police orders.
The dancers scuffed their way through inches of broken glass, debris of bottle barrages thrown during the day. The officers stood almost shoulder to shoulder along the curb.”
The "tour" brought the largest amount of transients in recent history to Hollister. Hundreds slept in "haystacks" according to police and in the city park and squares. less
Added: 2 days ago
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Category: Travel & Places |
| |  | “A Snowy Mountain Pass”, Utah
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I always try to motorcycle on the “road less traveled” whenever possible, so here are some scenes from another of those wonderful roads. It’s such a joy more...having such vistas pretty much to myself, without a sea of RVs, trucks, and cars all around me. This narrow, winding, seldom used, 9,655 foot high, snowy mountain pass is on Highway 31, between Fairview and Huntington in the Manti-La Sal National Forest in central Utah.
The song for the video is “Snow” from the CD “Eventide” by Grey Eye Glances. less
Added: Jul 5, 08
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Category: Travel & Places |
|  | “Arches National Park”, Utah
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Here’s another of the national parks I motorcycled through on a recent trip around the Southwest. This national park has always been my favorite for more...seeing arches, natural caves, and huge monolithic stone spires, so I wanted to share it with you. It’s difficult to fully grasp the enormity of how many millennia it took for erosion and weather to create these amazing works of art.
On a side topic, non-motorcycling friends have asked me over my 40 years of motorcycling why I SO much prefer to travel by motorcycle versus inside my 4 wheeled vehicles. I was really happy when a friend recently sent me the internet link to a great article by a motorcyclist that states the many “whys”. I’ve made this article website one of my browser favorites for the next time somebody asks me “why?” :) Here is a great quote from the article: “No longer isolated, huddled behind a wheel disconnected from nature, motorcycles bring you into the world at large. It's Lawrence of Arabia in Cinerama versus a daguerreotype of a camel.”
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=518431&topart=pickups
The song for this video is “Come Along” by Titiyo. I had never heard of this musical artist until today. I found out about her via a serendipity moment, by listening to one of her songs that happened to be on the MySpace page of a person who had linked to one of my videos, and since I enjoyed that song, I went onto iTunes to listen to more of her interesting music, and I found this song which I really liked for this video project. less
Added: Jul 3, 08
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Category: Travel & Places |
| |  | “Yosemite National Park”
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Yosemite is my favorite National Park, and I’ve probably now been there over sixty times in my life, and I never tire of the beauty of the scenery there, more...so when I was motorcycling from the San Francisco Bay Area eastward on my recent trip around the Southwest, it was a no brainer type decision for me that I’d go through Yosemite once again, and take Tioga Pass Road over the summit, and on down to Lee Vining at Mono Lake, California. Tioga Pass Road had only recently been cleared of winter snow and opened for traffic again, so it was great seeing all the snow and seasonal waterfalls beside the road.
The song choice is “Gravity” by Alison Krauss and Union Station, which I relate to really well, ‘cause I’ve had wanderlust all my life, and have always wanted to know what was over the next mountain, or around the next bend in the road. less
Added: Jun 29, 08
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Category: Travel & Places |
|  | “The Grand Canyon”
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I always enjoy visiting the Grand Canyon. You can never truly grasp the enormity and vastness of the vistas before your eyes when you’re there, because more...you lose ALL sense of scale, nor can you truly comprehend that the oldest rocks within the Inner Gorge at the bottom of Grand Canyon date back to almost two billion years ago.
The song for the video is Jimmy Buffett’s “Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On”. I really like the life message within the lyrics:
“I bought a cheap watch from the crazy man
Floating down Canal
It doesn’t use numbers or moving hands
It always just says "now" . . .
“Now you may be thinking that I was had
But this watch is never wrong
And if I had trouble the warranty said:
Breathe in, breathe out, move on . . .
“According to my watch, the time is now
The past is dead and gone
Don't try to shake it, just nod your head
Breathe in, breathe out, move on . . .
“Don’t try to explain it, just bow your head
Breathe in, Breathe Out, Move on....” less
Added: Jun 28, 08
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Category: Travel & Places |
| |  | “Pacific Coast Highway” - Part Two
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Here are some more video clips taken along Pacific Coast Highway during my recent motorcycle trip around the Southwest. One of the areas shown in the more...video is the “Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area”. I believe this is the only place left in California where you can still legally drive your vehicles on the beach. The speed limit on the beach THESE days is an OH so boring 15 miles per hour, but, BUT in the early 1970s when I went to a nearby university (and BEFORE!!!! all the annoying “Do” and “Don’t” regulations popped up at this beach!!), I had this fantastic beach pretty much to myself on most days, and I spent a lot of time there, racing my motorcycle at 70 mph through the sand at the surf line, with sand and water flying out from under the speeding tires, as I zigzagged in and out, just BARELY avoiding all the incoming waves. It was SO . . . MUCH . . . FUN!!! I would of course have gone FASTER than 70 mph, but that’s as fast as my hard working first motorcycle would GO! LOL
The song choice is “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes” by Jimmy Buffett, which has the GREAT classic line: “If we couldn’t laugh. . . we would ALL go insane.” less
Added: Jun 27, 08
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Category: Travel & Places |
|  | “Pacific Coast Highway”
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Here are some scenes from my favorite stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway, in California, which is the dramatic, rugged, winding, cliff-bound portion more...running from Morro Bay up to Carmel; this section has, and always will be, a favorite among travelers and particularly among motorcyclists like me, who has been motorcycling this beautiful stretch of highway for 40 years now. The highway is also known as “PCH” and “Highway 1”, and the vistas along this portion of the road are truly breathtaking. As a journalist once wrote: “"Traveling Highway 1 is more than just a scenic drive, it's a pilgrimage, a reconnection to California's history, environment, mythology - its spirit."
One of the bridges in the video is the “Bixby Creek Bridge”, constructed in 1932. This bridge has been used in countless TV commercials, movies, and TV shows (like the short-lived 1969 “Then Came Bronson”, about a nomadic guy wandering around the country on his V-Twin motorcycle (GEE, I wonder why I always related so well to THAT old TV show!? LOL)). Here is a good website that talks about the bridge: http://www.pelicannetwork.net/bigsur.bixby.bridge.htm , and a website that talks about “Then Came Bronson” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_Came_Bronson
The quote at the beginning of the video, is a fragment of a larger poem by Lord Byron. Here is the entire quotation:
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
LORD BYRON, Childe Harold
The song for the video is “The Wanderers” by Lacy J. Dalton, from her CD “The Last Wild Place Anthology”. less
Added: Jun 26, 08
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Category: Travel & Places |
| |  | “Route 66”
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Here are some of the scenes I saw along Route 66 in Arizona and California, during my recent wonderful motorcycle ride around the Southwest.
The video more...also includes some examples of the Burma Shave ads. Here are a few websites that talk about these famous, highly entertaining ads, which were seemingly EVERYWHERE on the highways “in the old days”:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/hpolscrv/mthomas.htm
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/burma.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave
http://www.signindustry.com/outdoor/articles/2000-02-15-giveusbackourburmashave.php3
The "Hollow Mountain" store and gas station is actually on a road that's north of Route 66, but it's funky nature fits right in with many of the quirky places on Route 66, so I included it in the video as well. There's an entire store carved into that mountain, with restrooms and storage rooms, etc. The store owner confirmed for me that the rock is a great natural insulator, so they never have to use heat during the winter, and only need air conditioning in the summer because of the heat that the refrigerator cooling units put out.
The song for the video is three different versions of “Route 66”, one by Depeche Mode, one by Chuck Berry, and the final version by the Rolling Stones. less
Added: Jun 24, 08
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Category: Travel & Places |
|  | “Just . . . . TRAINS!”
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This video is dedicated to anybody who loves trains as much as I do, and the video includes various trains I saw and/or rode on durin’ my recent wonderful more...motorcycle trip around the Southwest. As a kid my family and I rode on trains cross country quite a bit, and the trips were always magical journeys for kids. I particularly loved waking up while it was still dark outside and then gradually watching as the approaching sunlight slowly began to light up the beautiful desert scenes outside the windows :) We also knew that at that point, pancakes in the dining car were going to be served in the not TOO distant future LOL.
Trains included in the video are a long freight train along Route 66 in Arizona; two of the Amtrak Coast Starlight trains that often times meet each other in San Luis Obispo, California; the new “FrontRunner” just recently opened between Salt Lake City and Ogden Utah; one of the old locomotives, which is one of the various engines on display at the Ogden Railroad Museum; the Grand Canyon Railway train as it departs Williams, Arizona for Grand Canyon Village at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon (I also have vid footage of the train AT Grand Canyon Village, but this YouTube video is ALREADY 9.5 minutes long so I didn’t add that footage as well! LOL); and finally, the video shows the Sacramento Southern Railroad train that visitors to Old Town Sacramento can ride on. That train is typically pulled by a steam locomotive, but unfortunately that engine is down for repairs at the moment, so the train is pulled by a more modern engine for now. As I get older it’s funny to me that the old “vintage railroad cars” on that train are some of the type I remember riding in as a kid when they were still in service on various railroad lines around the USA, so yeah “Tempus Fugits”!! When I was a kid, in the days before the “safetycrats” destroyed much of the FUN!! of life, I vividly remember being allowed to ride for HOURS at a time on the open platforms of such cars at the rear of the train, as the train raced across the deserts at high speeds. Now on most “new” trains, you can’t even open a window, let alone stand out where you might get hurt if you’re dumb enough not to hold on, and it’s become almost impossible to walk around the inside of modern train cars without finding LOTS of safety warning stickers plastered everywhere, with a seemingly never-ending dissertation of the Dos and Don’ts while you’re on board! I miss the old days, when you still got credit for having a brain and common sense! LOL
The song for the video is “Catch That Train” by Billy Ray Hatley and The Show Dogs. less
Added: Jun 21, 08
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Category: Travel & Places |
| |  | The “Wild” Burros of Oatman, Arizona
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I’m back from another wonderful 3,300 mile, three and a half week motorcycle journey around the Southwest, so here’s the first video from the trip; I more...hope you like it :)
To me, Oatman, Arizona is the most distinctive surviving “old west” town in the Southwest, so I always enjoy motorcycling through it whenever I’m in that part of the country. Oatman is on the famous old Route 66, known as “The Mother Road”, and when the “modern highway” (to ME, “modern highway” translates directly as: “BORRRING!!!” LOL) Interstate 40 was completed, negating the need to travel 63 miles on the narrow winding Route 66 via Oatman, one would THINK that Oatman would have gone the way of many similar small towns along Route 66, and would quietly have died away. The unique character of Oatman, however, has allowed it to continue to be a town frequented by other bikers, RVers, and those wanting to relive the old days via old Route 66. Often times you can still see old Model T Fords, and other vintage cars traveling slowly through town.
About 30 minutes after I arrived in Oatman, a bunch of other bikers rumbled into town on their big V-twins, and it turned out they were travelers mainly from England, with some of the bikers also from Sweden and Greece, so they were all part of a tour that was biking the entire length of Route 66, from Chicago to Los Angeles.
The mountainous portion of Route 66, with its tight turns and steep dropoffs, from Kingman, Arizona to Oatman was considered so intimidating to “flat landers” during the 1930s and 40s, that many of them would hire locals to drive their cars through that area, rather than attempt it themselves. (As you can imagine, most adrenaline junkie motorcyclists like me LOVE the challenge of that stretch of narrow, mountainous road LOL)
One of the fun highlights of Oatman are the wild burros that roam around the town. These burros are the direct descendants of the burros that were used by Gold Miners as pack animals during the Gold Rush days. When the mines dried up, the miners released the burros to roam the arid Southwest.
Here’s a website that talks about the burros of Oatman: http://www.oatmangoldroad.com/burros.htm and here’s a website describing the quirky nature of this interesting town: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/13961
The song for the video is “Run Mustang Run” by Lacy J. Dalton. The song is obviously NOT about burros, but is about the wild mustangs which also inhabit the Southwest along with the burros, but I like the sentiments in the song and how it goes with the video clips, and, at the end of the day, they’re all “equine” :) Here’s one final website link that talks about both the mustangs and the burros: http://www.gatewaytosedona.com/article/id/518/page/1 less
Added: Jun 19, 08
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Category: Pets & Animals |
|  | “Into The Mountains”
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This is the sequel to “Into The Desert”. After a few days in the heat of the deserts of Southern California and Nevada, I worked my way back towards more...San Diego, by motorcycling up into the mountains, to ride by Lake Arrowhead, Silverwood Lake, Lake Gregory, and along the beautiful “Rim of the World Drive” to Big Bear Lake. Rim of the World Drive is the two lane Highway 18, located northeast of San Bernardino, and, as I found out, FILLED with OTHER motorcyclists on weekends! It was QUITE a change bein’ around so many other motorcyclists again, after bein’ in the solitude of the deserts on my own. And once I got FURTHER back into civilization, it was even MORE of a change, havin’ to be impacted by damned TRAFFIC LIGHTS again!!, after ridin’ for DAYS without seein’ even ONE of those truly annoying inventions from Hell! LOL I wonder how many YEARS are wasted out of people’s lives by havin’ to sit still at traffic lights? . . . . but I digress LOL . . .
On Memorial Day I head out from San Diego again on the motorcycle for a few weeks, and ride up the Pacific Coast Highway to the San Francisco Bay Area, then east through Yosemite National Park, then by Mono Lake and east on the wonderful two old U.S. 50 through Nevada, which is a GREAT motorcycling road that I’ve loved bein’ on many times over the decades. U.S. 50 was part of the old 3,400 mile long Lincoln Highway, which was a famed transcontinental highway, and the first practical automobile road to link the East and West coasts of the United States. The Nevada portion of U.S. 50 is rarely used any more, with most travelers opting to use 4 lane Interstate 80 to the north, which is fine by ME! since they leave U.S. 50 to the bikers and people in enclosed vehicles who have more time on their hands to enjoy the incredible vistas :) :)
Once out of Nevada, I’ll wander around Utah and Arizona for a while, then spend a few days in Las Vegas, before headin’ back to San Diego.
The song I used for this video is “Let It Ride” by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. less
Added: May 23, 08
Views: 47
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| | Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 11:52 AM | | I read this in my latest Dean Koontz novel, entitled "Brother Odd". This quote about dogs is really good!!! . . . "Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose---if we dare." | |
| Friday, April 6, 2007 at 2:06 PM | | FUNNY VIDEO! LOLOLOL It's the perfect horn to have if you have somebody slow in front of you in the fast lane, who refuses to pull over for you! LOL http://www.livevideo.com/video/7E6C6D40CCE34791B1773D3543CF4B35/suv-with-a-train-horn.aspx?m_tkc=2271481 | |
| Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 11:55 AM | | Now HERE'S a fun game!! http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/games/magic-gopher-central.swf | |
| Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 8:50 AM | | Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t."
Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"
Jack Palance: "That's what you've got to figure out."
~From the movie City Slickers | |
| Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 11:54 PM | | A friend just emailed me this quote: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." (Herm Albright) | |
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