KEEP ON TRUCKING

PERIMETER POLICIES , RELAX , I'M GOING TO TELL YOU A STORY .
  IN THE SEVENTIES ,I CAN'T RECALL EXACTLY WHEN ,  BUT I TOOK MY OLD PAN ALL CHOPPED OUT , NO FRONT FENDER , NO SHIELDING AT ALL , AND WENT ON A JOURNEY OF SURVIVAL TO THE CANADIAN WEST .  WELL IT WAS AT THE END OF OCTOBER , NOT A GOOD TIME TO GO BIKING HERE IN SIBERIA .
  THIS IS A LOOK AT HOW CANADIANS WERE , AND I HOPE THEY STILL ARE .
  AS I WAS NEARING ALBERTA ,  SNOW SQUALLS  KICKED UP , AND IT WAS NIGHT , I COULDN'T SEE A THING , BUT I WAS IN A LONG STRETCH  AND NO TOWNS  CLOSE BY.
  WITH NO ALTERNATIVES I KEPT GOING WIPING MY FACE AND EYES .
  A LARGE TRUCK RIG PASSED ME , I DIDN'T BLAME HIM HE HAD A JOB TO DO AND SOME CRAZY BIKER WAS SLOWING HIM DOWN .  NOT THE CASE MY FELLOW CANADIANS , AS SOON AS HE HAD PASSED ME AND WAS IN FRONT OF ME ,  HE SLOWED DOWN , AND WAS LITERALLY SIX FEET IN FRONT OF ME ,  BUT I WAS SUDDENLY ENVELOPED  IN A DEAD ZONE , NO WIND NO SNOW , AND HIS REAR LIGHTS WHICH HE TURNED ON GIVING ME VISION . I WAS IN HIS SLIPSTREAM , I HAD HEARD OF THIS EFFECT  BUT HADN'T ACTUALLY SEEN IT TILL THEN .  I RODE ABOUT TEN MILES  IN COMFORT  , WHEN HE STARTED FLASHING HIS PASSING LIGHTS , BUT THERE WAS NO ONE TO PASS .  I TOOK IT TO MEAN HE WANTED ME TO PASS , WELL GRATEFUL FOR THE RELIEF  I HIT THE THROTTLE AND WITH SNOW AND SLEET  PELTING ME FROM ALL DIRECTIONS I PASSED MY TRUCKER FRIEND .
 I HAD DRIVEN NO MORE THAN A QUARTER MILE WHEN ANOTHER TRUCK RIG UP IN FRONT OF ME ALSO SLOWED DOWN , LETTING ME INTO HIS SLIPSTREAM , MEANWHILE MY FIRST TRUCKER SAMARITAN PASSED US BOTH AND HONKED HIS HORNS .  WELL LET ME TELL YOU THIS LATE NIGHT BAND OF TRUCKERS EACH ONE HELPING ME ALONG UNTIL I REACHED A CITY TO LODGE .
GOD BLESS YOU GUYS  FROM THE CRAZY BIKER , I HOPE YOUR KIND ARE STILL OUT THERE .  NO ONE KNEW OF THEIR ACTIONS , GIVING HELP , THEY JUST GOT TOGETHER AND DID IT .
  THAT'S  THE CANADA I WANT TO REMEMBER  .  GIANFRANCO FRONZI /  JAN ./ 10 / 2011