MAN AT THE TOP – ROGER MURRAY
FAR LEFT: ROGER WITH ANOTHER GREAT FRIEND, JACK COLLINS IN THE BACKGROUND LEFT: PATRICK GRIFFITHS
In 2009 we set of on an expedition from New York across the mid West, Death Valley etc, then to Seattle, Canada, and up the Alaskan Highway and back. 14,000 miles in just over three weeks, that was some drive. My bike broke down near Dawson City and I became separated from Nick and the group. By a
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thousand to one chance I was riding along near to Little Big Horn and down a slip road came about ten bikers. It was Nick with his merry band of exhausted men. We could hardly believe it. My daughter Ailsa is now a biker causing envy when she turns up on her Harley. In a proverbial weak moment a short while ago an old shovel head Harley nearly ended up in my garage but nobody would insure me. Age discrimination I call it! Did you sink any of your boats?
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Yes, Sunshine, and two canal boats. Actually my boat Timbuktu was also sunk and she is at the bottom of the western trenches, but there lays a story. Timbuktu was a great boat, she was a ‘Chinese Takeaway’ built in Taiwan out of heavy duty glass fibre, a 48 ft ketch. One of my wives decided to leave me when going backwards and forwards to McCann Erickson in London became too much for her, she was living on the boat in Palma and she met this Australian bloke who she cleared off with, I can’t blame her. Anyway I was told she was going to disable the boat and somehow after the deed was done it partially filled with water and all of the electrics went after which she had to be sold.
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A friend in Palma put me in touch with this guy in England who knew the boat, we came to a stupid cash price, met in a Little
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