Christmas Memories - GI Joe Mobile Support Vehicle

Christmas 1972. You opened the Sears Wish Book catalog and there it was. Possibly THE coolest vehicle ever made available to the G.I. Joe Adventure Team! A two foot long mobile headquarters complete with a rotating search light and radar antenna. A flying reconnaissance camera helped the team to search for the dangerous "radioactive satellite".

I have to say it is just an absoute miracle that mine is still around after almost four decades! I have to thank my mother for the foresight of keeping it around all these years! It is a bit worn as it is the fate of any "favorite" toy. The result of all those memorable times all those years ago. But after a thorough cleaning it was ready for one last reunion with some of the surviving members of the Adventure Team.

Happy holidays!!

Members of the Adventure Team got together for one last reunion in the back yard.

Christmas Memories - The Apollo 5 Speed Muscle Bike

The Holidays are here and for me it is a time to remember times spent with family and those special gifts that we got to enjoy next to our good friends back in the day. Especially those gifts we remember best because they impacted our lives in some special way. The Ross Apollo 5 Speed was one of those for me. Dressed in black with it's long banana seat and a cool speed shifter that could have been at home in any muscle car of the 60's, this bike meant business. More important than that, this cool-looking "muscle bike" was my first ticket to freedom and independence. First with short trips around the block. Then enjoying rides with friends around my community and later on as my vehicle of choice for long rides away from Home. It became a central part of everything we did until we moved on to cars. Good times...