Thanks for the nice compliments, BO. I do appreciate them. This was actualy my third novel after writing one about a young federal officer at Gettysburg and one about five teen friends hunting a rouge mountain lion in Colorado. I started it in May of 2008 and worked hard at it for several years then seemed to shelf it after hundreds of pages. It was a very different type of project to say the least. But I was able to incorporate a lot of historical events into it like the Vietnam War, the Manson Family Murders, the war protest, different famous people in music or entertainment, etc. I'm not sure what I would have wrote about in Pennsylvania in the 1980s. So much more to pick from in 1969 LA.
But yeah, the nerdlinger and engineer guy probably stole the show with their crazy antics. Those two were always at each other. Another crazy story I just thought of was the time circa 1985 when me and the nerdlinger were at some old mine building on our dirt bikes and we challenged each other to a race back to his house several miles away. We took off and really had those machines screaming as we made our way over some mountain back roads. As we were nearing the big hill above where he lived I got caught in a gravel wash on a curve and had no choice but to ride it out into an embankement. I was pizzed I lost and figured he would be bragging about beating me. I pick up my bike and ride down the hill about 20 yards and he was laying in a cornfield with his bike overturned. We both got taken out that day. LOL.
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