I checked the BMW MOA website forum this evening and was pleased to find several of my rally photos have been posted, including this one from the Beer Garden taken Saturday evening just before the closing ceremonies.
The folks in the photo are Lida (never got her last name) Tim and Linda Balough and world traveler Ted Simon.
Ted rode a 500cc Triumph around the world in the early 1970s and wrote about it in "Jupiter's Travels," widely acknowledged as the best motorcycle travel book ever written.
He did it again six years ago, right after his 70th birthday, on a BMW. His most recent book is "Dreaming of Jupiter" and he was at the rally selling copies of all of his books.
Lida is from Ukraine and Ted met her in 1993 while he was walking across Eastern Europe for a book about his father. Lida teaches English and is in the U.S. for a three-month visit.
As I shook her hand and rose to leave for the closing ceremonies she offered, "You have very kind eyes."
Awwwwww.
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