I stock motorcycle parts for a local Yamaha dealership.

It's been a difficult journey through life, to get this far.
But, I've almost got things together once again.
Luck is going my way thanks to my friends.
I'm here to say, though, it was buying my yamaha motorcycle
that seemed to trigger everything changing for the better.

I am proof that motorcycles can turn your life around.

So, what happened?
...
 
 

When I was a lonely teen with a fastfood job,
nightly cruisin' around with the chicks was the cool thing to do.
Six years of backseat cigarettes and hair brushes.
I was fired the same day I quit high school.
Without money, the girls wouldn't drive me around anymore.
 
 
 
 
 
 

So, I enlisted in the Peace Corps, and tended rice and cattle in Burma.
It was a peaceful job, too, all just like they had advertised.
Soon I had a devoted partner and my first of 9 great kids.

Try as I may, I could never learn the language.

Using hand signals was also really confusing.

My dog seemed to understand more than I did.
 
 
 
 
 

My relatives back home seemed happy to hear from me, I guess.
Most of the letters they sent never reached me.
For some reason their addresses changed.

I could never get a phone call to go through.
So there was a long time I thought they didn't care.
 
 
 
 
 
 

After my 11 year hitch in Burma was over,
I worked on some tuna  boats down below Key Largo.
There was no money in it, and no night-life. I was always tired.
But, I had an awesome drowning experience, I remember everything!
There was an underwater world full of Yamahas...
Everything makes sense to me now, except for TV news.
 
 
 
 
 

Air depravation gave new meaning to my life.
My kids seem smarter. 

Unfortunately my retinas have developed blisters from UV exposure.

I've lost most of my vision, but not much else has changed.

It's not painful and there's no way to cure it.

After a while you get used to falling down.
 
 
 
 
 

The Yamaha world I saw while drowning kept re-appearing in my dreams.

Finally I realized what I needed to do. I bought a new Yamaha Virago.

I rode home and wow, my wife was really upset with me.

She locked the doors and told me never to come home again.

That's what happens when you follow your dreams.

I should have expected it, my friends told me.

They said she was obsessed with Minor League Hockey Players.
 
 
 

Enough about me!