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StreetScooby

Who were your role models?

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I read Aldous Huxley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Hunter S. Thompson, Earnest Gann and Kurt Vonnegut in High School and my life was never the same, I had no choice but to become a skydiver. :S

Writers rock. Man I miss HST. I still get chills up my spine when I think of these words that changed my youth forever,
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

Or from HST's Hells Angels: A Strange and Terible Saga

"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later.

But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's In. The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions. "


All these writers offered a way of framing reality that was missing from public education.(extremely large understatement)
A mile of highway can take you a mile
But a mile of Runway can take you anywhere!

Blue Sky Traveler

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