So the internet is wonderful place full of interesting sites and people. So through this medium. I made a friend in Australia. He was coming to the USA so I invited him to come visit. Of course to the horror of everyone he was immediately a "serial killer". Thousg as I say I could be too. Luring in the prey with free lodging. Maybe we were both "cloaking ourselves in respectability?

A friend and I did a motorcycle trip a few years back and we stayed with strangers the whole way.
There's sites like couchsurfing, warm showers, car groups motorcycle groups etc. There are good people in the world.

Didn't matter when he arrived he looked just like he did on Skype and so did I. So it began a two week whirlwind tour of NYS.

We started him off with the Vintage National Fla track event nearby. Ahh the smell of castor oil.

Metro racing built this up for Scotty Parker and he can still toss it around,fast.
Next was a big gay party. He was worried. But soon fell into the rhythm of it all.
That was followed with a trip to Mythaca to see falls. Not enough time for Niagara.

Of course there was food and beer along the way.....

Save your money on Rogue/Voodoo Donuts Bacon Maple Ale.

We had lunch at the Ale House there. Good beers and good food.
That was followed with the American tradition of a baseball game. We scored free tickets in line because I had my Pirates hat on. Pretty funny. So we had expensive cheap beer and a not a bad burger.
The game sucked. Lackadasical playing by the Bmets.
Next he got to see me race. No my focus isn't on racing right now. So I was a "farm animal" and was just "in the field"
Mills took over the next day and rolled out the LGC for a tour of Pa. Me I headed for a nap and regroup. The drinking was catching up with me.
Then it was off to the Big Apple for Ground Zero, Water Taxi tour, Chinatown, Times Square, South St Seaport and the Discovery Center to see the Terra Cotta soldiers.

A new motorcycle museum was up first.

We hit Newburgh for their new brewpub first. Very cool space. Nothing like frites and beer.
The porkskins were every weird.

Sunday found us going to Saugerties and Kingston. At the former we stumbled on a hot rod show.

Doug and Janet got to go search the antique shops while we looked at the cars.

Loud, raucous and shiny. Again the smell of race fuel was sweet. Nothing like over cammed V8's.

Thats a quick wrap of two weeks. Seeing him off to the airport was very surreal.

Here's omone that you just shared two very full weeks with and now you will only see them on the internet.

It was like being in a movie and this was the ending.

Anyways I made a great friend, had a great time and now need to save to go down under.

Thanks for all the memories.