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Welcome to my 3rd Attempt at a Travel Blog, for my motorcycle trips and adventures!\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Well, I never imagined myself here, but what else is a super cool Air Cav Huey Helicopter Pilot supposed to do when he\u2019s out of the military and can no longer fly among the trees?\u00a0 One of my buddies says I have a huge EGO, but I always tell him, that it\u2019s not EGO if it\u2019s true!\u00a0 LOL Besides he\u2019s enlisted so what does he know? I didn\u2019t have to work for a living and got paid more!<\/p>

What does this have to do with motorcycles and riding?\u00a0 Well, I had a friend at \u201cwork\u201d ask me why I liked riding so much, and I really didn\u2019t have an answer. I was thinking about it one day while hitting the great roads here in Eastern Tennessee and it came to me.\u00a0Riding through the trees and curves of the Great Smoky Mountains was much like flying low and fast among the trees. It truly is my therapy.<\/p>

A little more about me. I started my riding career on the down low since it was forbidden by my mother. I bought a Honda CL 360 with exhaust that curved up and was designed to burn your thigh on every ride. I had to keep it at a buddy\u2019s house so that Mom wouldn\u2019t beat me. Even though it was a relatively small bike, I still loved to take it on long rides. I once rode it from Camp Drum, NY to my home in NJ 372 miles away. It doesn\u2019t seem that long, but on a small bike, it was! Oh, to be young and not so bright again.\u00a0I did take a hiatus from riding while my children were young and I was the only one making money.\u00a0Since then, the kids have grown up, and the wife decided to move on. When one day I was out minding my own business and saw a bike for sale. Well, the bug bit me again, and off I went.\u00a0That was about 12 years and close to 100,000 miles ago.\u00a0 With four cross-country trips under my belt and thousands of miles around the Smoky Mountains, South Carolina, and Florida, here I am poised to do yet another cross-country ride to California and back to DC with the\u00a0RFTW<\/a>\u00a0folks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Well, let's get on to what this is really all about! <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Well today is the last day before I take off and test out all my<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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Finally after two false starts in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid 19 restrictions the<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Pete, AKA Trooper or Grumps to his grandchildren.  His passions are Helping Vets, Riding in the Smoky Mountains, or crossing the country to see all he missed while traveling for the military.  An outcast from corporate America, he runs several ecommerce businesses, and is the process of building a Motorcycle Tour Business. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Welcome to my 3rd Attempt at a Travel Blog, for my motorcycle trips and adventures!\u00a0\u00a0 Well, I never imagined myself here, but what else is a super cool Air Cav Huey Helicopter Pilot supposed to do when he\u2019s out of the military and can no longer fly among the trees?\u00a0 One of my buddies says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trooperstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trooperstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trooperstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trooperstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trooperstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":109,"href":"https:\/\/trooperstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/trooperstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trooperstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}