When A Forum Becomes A Family

Tigcraft
Of course you are right here. We care for each other and family well hell yes we are..
Regards
Joe.

 

Tigcraft
Yes but I go on the computer for other things and see remarks like your topic here or Nikki's and can't leave it. We are a big family and we do care in our own ways. Break starts later today.
Regards
Joe.

 

Tigcraft
Say 13:00 hours. I will be at work then.
Regards
Joe.

 

Hi Eric, you are so right on this, we do genuinely care for each other, even if we've never met!!!.

I'm really looking forward to the GMU this year to meet up with old and new friends.

 

Oh Eric ! Where's that tough mean down to earth Yorkshire streak gone ?

 

You’re absolutely right Eric, we are a family. There isn’t another forum on the web where people can express their feelings quite like this one and not get slagged off or worse. Long may it continue.
Group hug now......

 

Yep it is so true mate, a fantastic forum and a group of members that make it what it is......❤️

 

Ain't it funny how you can make friends with folk you never met?

Maybe one day!

 

Course, y'all do a runner when you meet me, fer sure. Lol

 

This forum really does feel like family! So many great folks "live" here and I appreciate all the laughs, ribbing, information, encouragement, and camaraderie. I'd love to meet everyone (or at least a bunch of you) face to face one day. In fact, Mr. Sandi and I just last night were talking over dinner about making a trip to the UK (and hopefully GMU) not this summer but the next.

 

Yes, looking at 2021, @Tigcraft. And,, yes, it will be a long trip. But we won't ride, we'll fly. And rent bikes. Any motorcycle rental recommendations? Or trip recommendations in general?

Mr. Sandi and I were ready to pull the trigger on a motorcycle tour around Ireland mainly because he has always believed himself to be Irish. Name, family lore, etc. But after buying me a beautiful coffee table book on Ireland, a Fodor's guide, and a map two Christmas' ago and in anticipation of a trip there, he said one day, "Well, I guess I'd better figure out if I"m really Irish. So he did a six month subscription to Ancestry.com. After hitting dead ends on his dad's side looking at paper trails, ship manifests, birth certs, etc. he decided to do the DNA thing. When the results came back, he learned he's 2% Irish.....and 94% English! So although that shouldn't really change our minds about touring Ireland by motorcycle, now we're more inclined to tour England. And of course we both want to meet some of my forum friends.

Mr. Sandi went through my ancestry while he had his subscription and all the family history my parents told me over the years was pretty much dead-on accurate. Out of 26 direct relatives that Mr. Sandi traced back, 24 were from Sweden, one was from Norway, and one from Wales. But still, I find that I don't have a burning desire to ride motorcycles through Sweden. Now Spain, that's high on my bucket list!

 

Thanks for the book recommendation and also for the good wishes for my bones healing up as well as a MC trip, @BS1948.

McCarthy's Bar sounds like a good read. I lived in San Diego for nearly 10 years and now Tucson for nearly 30. Both places have loads of tourists so I think the taking the piss out of tourists part will entertaining as well!

 

I proposed a teleconference at the GMU for those who cannot attend, and a beer round sponsorship on another thread. DD came back with a Skype idea for the conference.