RN> TW> I never did do the the Tourist ride but in my younger years I did
RN> TW> hike down into the Havasupai Indann reservation and ride a Horse
RN> TW> out, The owner wanted soem supplies form the trading post up on the
RN> TW> canyon rim at the head of the trail A frend and I took them up so
RN> TW> they could be loaded and brought back down with the next pack horse
RN> TW> trip.

RN>If I survive my upcoming knee surgery and go west (that sounds familiar), I
RN>just might be able to get on the saddle without help.  Only then will I know
RN>which one of us is right, although I should point out I'm not disagreeing wi
RN>you -- I'm just stubborn when it comes to things I've done in the past.

Ask Roy, I have a bit of stubborness myself. :-)  :-)
And I hear you. I tried to wrok on cars wel past the tiem when a
reasonable man would have given it up.. My last gasp was Oil Changes
and I finally had to give that up a little less then two years ago.
I guess  I should jsut rembember the good tiems as for over 50 years I
did almsot all of my repairs except Body work and Automatic
transmissions. And since for many years because of necessity I picked my
vehicles from the Consumer Reports "Worst Used Car Buy" list. I even had
my own Tow Bar so I could rescue the wife when her car quit. Frotunatly
I only had to do that four times. On one occasion I changed the timing
belt in the parking lot where she works. Adn twice I had to rescue me
secong son. He was a driver that was hard on cars. He had two Mercurt
Capri v-6's which had a Composition fiber tweeth of the timing grar. He
shucked it twice and I had to change it. It hapened enough that the
Mercury Dealer has a special gasket kit for Timing gear replacement.

In the last several years the Realities of Old Age have really ghit me
hard. I had to give up working the San Diego County Sheriffs Volunter
Patrol after a little over 10 years and also My playing "Apprentice
Machinist and General Maitenance gofer" at the Campo Railroad Museum
Facility also after a little over 10 years.
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