RE: [RC] The Great American Horse Race - Tom Sites
Hello Jody, You had me laughing so loud it
could have woke up the dead. As Michael Jackson and i both know...Peter
Pan is just a good story and we both ain't he, and there's a big difference
between us when we were in our 20's and we in our 50's, and how some of those
folks could do what they did in their 70's will always amaze me.
It was Larry Lewis who you got the book from, and
he came to sell T-shirts and stuff and when the Race organizers failed to
deliver as advertized he and the Kansas Ski Team took over marking Trails and
feeding poor folk like me when we either didn't feel like cooking or had nothing
better to eat than peanut butter sandwiches. Larry will always be in my
gratitude for feeding me when i was hungry, and that i will never
forget.
There are so many stories...and did you know that
Sam 'trained' Dude for Endurance by using him as a plow horse? And there
was one character named Roe Bailey who brought an unbroke horse who said he
could be trained in the Race? Well he didn't, but Roe was one heck of a
poker player. Do you know how to reach Sam?
There is a web-site under construction and we have
tried to locate people and the GAHR folks aren't very talkative or else they
have traveled to the land where Peter Pan is real. We tried a chat and
either people didn't respond or else the stories could not be printed because it
seemed it offended someone. I have the Trail to Winnemucca, Nevada
and the mileage of each day, but trailered to Reno shortly after that
because of a case of severe scratches and stayed w/ Cliff Lewis and doctored
Jose for his ride into California, which was more important to me than
placing.
Thanks for making this rainy day (which we need) a
fond and lasting remembrance of Grand Adventure,
