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A Visit to the Triumph National Rally in Oley, Pennsylvania

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I needed a new tire before going -- fear of rain. Got it. Up on the Skyline Drive the weather was beautiful. A bear trotted across the road in front of us. After crossing the road he stopped, turned, and looked at us.  Jack said, "Wolf at him, Bird." He gave my throttle a twist, I wolfed, and  the bear went off into the woods. Jack says that's where bears poop.  Jack poops there too. It rained all night and we packed up and left in the rain. I heard Jack yelling  at something in the night. It turned out a mouse had chewed a mouse door  into the tent and woke Jack up. He didn't want the mouse in the tent and  they had a tussle. The mouse got batted out the big door after Jack  unzipped it. It rained most of the way to the rally, but stopped for a while after we arrived. Jack said I need fenders like this. He's kooky sometimes. When Jack bought his first motorcycle, he didn't know much about
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Brother Triumphs Flathead Shovelhead -- second generation Norton Ducati Yo, Dat Be Me
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Thief Reformation Scheme The children of Israel, the Hebrews, spent four hundred and thirty years in Egypt. The first years of their sojourn were spent as the guests of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. The last years were spent as the abused servants of another Pharaoh; a Pharaoh who despised them, and kept them only as slaves. The Hebrews lamented their sorry estate. They cried unto God, and God heard their cries. God called one of their own, an Israelite, a man named Moses, to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt and into the land God had promised to their fathers: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom God called Israel. But Pharaoh found value in the despised Hebrews as brick makers. He would not let them go. So, by the hand of Moses, God brought plagues upon Egypt: one plague after another. One of the plagues was a plague of darkness. "And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness w