Subject: RE: Surprise Trip to Italy (long winded)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C465AB.500C1A80
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

crap... we'll be going so slow you'll be able to catch us!
-----Original Message-----
From: sam heath [mailto:eldiabl-@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:46 AM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: RE: Surprise Trip to Italy (long winded)

yep im out here. not sure if i can take friday off. going to try, if not i
only work till 11 am on friday so i could just meet you guys down there fri
afternoon sometime. i'll let you know

sam

Kevin Graf <kgr-@midwestpension.com> wrote:
Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Give Your Team Access to Their PCs from Anywhere. Increase
productivity with a secure remote-access solution from
GoToMyPC Pro. Stay in touch with your office. FREE TRIAL:
http://click.topica.com/caacpgGb1dfltb6JvF0a/ExpertCity
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Glad to hear it. Sams restaruant - Ferndale. It's just past Eight Mile
on
the northbound side of Woodward.
Meeting at 8:30 pulling out of the parking lot at 10am. I'm letting
everyone
know that I want to be rolling out of the lot at 10am. The group is
getting
to be too large to be waiting around for "that guy" (which in all
fairness,
I was guilty of a few weeks ago...)
Some folks showing up earlier for breakfast, some later just for coffee.

I'll let you know if anything changes.

Sam-you out there too?

Kev

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Buick [mailto:rusty-@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:00 AM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: RE: Surprise Trip to Italy (long winded)

Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Save up to 67% on Omaha Steaks + Get 6 FREE Burgers and a
FREE Cutlery Set + Cutting Board!
http://click.topica.com/caacpgjb1dfltb63b4qa/OmahaSteaks
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Yep, it was me. I tried sending you an email offlist yesterday but I am
not sure if it went through. I still plan on trying to join up with you
guys, just got to make sure that I can take Friday off of work (should
know on Monday). Where are you guys meeting on Friday morning?
Later-
Buick

Kevin Graf wrote:
>
> Jeff, was it you that mentioned riding down to midohio with us? let me
> know.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Buick [mailto:rusty-@comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:35 PM
> To: Loopfram-@topica.com
> Subject: Surprise Trip to Italy (long winded)
>
>
> Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Amazing Diet Patch
> The fastest - Easiest way to lose weight! Try it now FREE!
>http://click.topica.com/caacoW6b1dfltb63b4qa/MyDietPatches
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I knew that I loved my wife but this is ridiculous... Two weeks ago my
> wife had me convinced that we were going on vacation up in Canada for
a
> week as a birthday present to me for my 30th (yeah, I'm trying to
catch
> you guys). So we show up at our departure gate at Detroit Metro
Airport
>
> and the destination said Amsterdam, my wife (Dana) turned to me and
said
>
> "Do you want to guess where we're really going?".
> Dialogue was as follows:
> Jeff- "Are we going to Europe?"
> Dana- "Yes"
> Jeff- "Are we going to Italy?"
> Dana- "Yes"
> Jeff- "Are we going to Mandello?"
> Dana- "Yes"
>
> She made reservations to rent a BMW touring bike for a week and
roughly
> mapped out an itinerary with hotel reservations for some of the
nights.
>
> Here's a brief day by day look at our trip, it was awesome!
>
> Day 1: Fly into Milan and head straight to the motorcycle rental
company
>
> to pick up a BMW 1150 touring bike. Ride north to Como and check into
> our hotel and then continue around Lake Como up to Mandello del Lario
to
>
> go to the Guzzi Factory/Museum. We arrived right at 3:00pm which was
> good because the museum is only open from 3:00pm~4:00pm on weekdays.
> The museam was great, I had an idea of what it would be like because I
> had seen pictures of it before, but it was cooler than imagined. The
> tour guide let me cross the ropes and get a close look at some of the
> racing machines even though I don't speak a lick of Italian (I think
> that drooling in universally understood). From there we continued up
> the east coast of Lake Como and then took a ferry across with the bike
> and rode back down along the west coast to Como for the night. The
lake
>
> is beautiful!
>
> Day 2: Left Como went back through Milan down to Maranello and visited
> the Ferrari museum. Again, a lot of very beautiful machines. They had
> a ton of engines out on display and cutaways showing their technology
in
>
> brakes / clutches / suspension / etc... Very cool! From there we
> continued on to Bologna for the night.
>
> Day 3: Went to the Ducati Factory / Museum only to find out that we
> were 15 minutes late for the tour and they would not allow us to
enter.
>
> They said that we could wait for the next tour, but that started in 5
> hours so we opted to leave. I was bummed but it turned out okay
because
>
> we went down to Florence for the day and that is an incredible city.
> The architecture is breathtaking and there is a lot of people and
action
>
> there. We continued on down to a small town in Tuscany where we stayed
> at a 1600's hunting manor. Our room had 20-foot ceilings and the whole
> place was great.
>
> Day 4: Stayed at the hunting manor for another night but did a day
trip
> up to Cortona (the movie Under the Tuscan Sun was filmed there). It
was
>
> really cool because it is up on a hillside so you can see for miles
and
> appreciate how beautiful the country is.
>
> Day 5: Rode to Pontedera to the Piaggio Museum (Vespa / Gilera) and
> spent an hour there. They put a lot of effort into that museum and it
> was almost as cool as the Guzzi museum. Beutiful displays of some
> really unique machines. Continued on to Pisa and checked out the
> Leaning Tower, not much else there. Hopped back on the Beemer and rode
> to Genove for the night. It is the port town that Columbus was from
but
>
> it was kind of a dirty city and didn't seem like it had that much to
> offer for tourists.
>
> Day 6: Rode the bike back up to Milan and turned it in (it was a bit
of
>
> a relief because people drive like mad in the city and it was nice to
be
>
> able to relax a bit. The tollways are a bit expensive but the road
> surface and the views are great). Spent the day walking around and
> shopping in Milan.
>
> Day 7: Back to Detroit (about 1.5 hours to Amsterdam and 8 more to
> Detroit).
>
> I still can't believe that Dana planned the whole trip and that I had
no
>
> idea where we were going. I am going to be hard-pressed to match this
> when she turns 30 next year!
>
> Later,
> Jeff Buick
> Detroit, MI
>
> 1972 Eldo LAPD
> 1974 Eldo LAPD
> 1974 Eldo Civilian
> 1972 V7-Sport
>
> Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Get a Great Credit Card for You Today
> You can find a credit card to fit your credit needs.
> All types of credit cards -- 0% APRs, Rewards, & Bad Credit.
>http://click.topica.com/caacpgdb1dfltb63b4qf/411Web
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>

Jeff Buick
Detroit, MI

1972 Eldo LAPD
1974 Eldo LAPD
1974 Eldo Civilian
1972 V7-Sport

Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Amazing Diet Patch
The fastest - Easiest way to lose weight! Try it now FREE!
http://click.topica.com/caacoW6b1dfltb63b4qf/MyDietPatches
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Apply now for a No-Annual-Fee Discover®Platinum Card
0% Intro APR*, No Annual Fee, Up to 2% Cashback Bonus®
award* Start Saving Today - APPLY NOW! It's fast, easy and
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!

------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C465AB.500C1A80
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV>crap... we'll be going so slow you'll be able to catch
us!</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: sam heath
[mailto:eldiabl-@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:46
AM To: Loopfram-@topica.com Subject: RE: Surprise
Trip to Italy (long winded) </DIV>
<DIV>yep im out here. not sure if i can take friday off. going to try, if not
i only work till 11 am on friday so i could just meet you guys down there fri
afternoon sometime. i'll let you know</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>sam Kevin Graf <kgr-@midwestpension.com>
wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Your
free subscription is supported by today's
sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Give
Your Team Access to Their PCs from Anywhere. Increase productivity with
a secure remote-access solution from GoToMyPC Pro. Stay in touch with
your office. FREE
TRIAL: http://click.topica.com/caacpgGb1dfltb6JvF0a/ExpertCity ------------------------------------------------------------------- Glad
to hear it. Sams restaruant - Ferndale. It's just past Eight Mile on the
northbound side of Woodward. Meeting at 8:30 pulling out of the parking
lot at 10am. I'm letting everyone know that I want to be rolling out of
the lot at 10am. The group is getting to be too large to be waiting
around for "that guy" (which in all fairness, I was guilty of a few weeks
ago...) Some folks showing up earlier for breakfast, some later just for
coffee. I'll let you know if anything changes. Sam-you out
there too? Kev -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey
Buick [mailto:rusty-@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:00
AM To: Loopfram-@topica.com Subject: RE: Surprise Trip to Italy
(long winded) Your free subscription is supported by today's
sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Save
up to 67% on Omaha Steaks + Get 6 FREE Burgers and a FREE Cutlery Set +
Cutting
Board! http://click.topica.com/caacpgjb1dfltb63b4qa/OmahaSteaks ------------------------------------------------------------------- Yep,
it was me. I tried sending you an email offlist yesterday but I am not
sure if it went through. I still plan on trying to join up with you guys,
just got to make sure that I can take Friday off of work (should know on
Monday). Where are you guys meeting on Friday
morning? Later- Buick Kevin Graf wrote: > > Jeff,
was it you that mentioned riding down to midohio with us? let me >
know. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Buick
[mailto:rusty-@comcast.net] > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:35
PM > To: Loopfram-@topica.com > Subject: Surprise Trip to
Italy (long winded) > > > Your free subscription is
supported by today's sponsor: >
------------------------------------------------------------------- >
Amazing Diet Patch > The fastest - Easiest way to lose weight! Try it
now FREE! >
http://click.topica.com/caacoW6b1dfltb63b4qa/MyDietPatches >
------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
I knew that I loved my wife but this is ridiculous... Two weeks ago
my > wife had me convinced that we were going on vacation up in Canada
for a > week as a birthday present to me for my 30th (yeah, I'm trying
to catch > you guys). So we show up at our departure gate at Detroit
Metro Airport > > and the destination said Amsterdam, my wife
(Dana) turned to me and said > > "Do you want to guess where
we're really going?". > Dialogue was as follows: > Jeff- "Are we
going to Europe?" > Dana- "Yes" > Jeff- "Are we going to
Italy?" > Dana- "Yes" > Jeff- "Are we going to
Mandello?" > Dana- "Yes" > > She made reservations to rent
a BMW touring bike for a week and roughly > mapped out an itinerary
with hotel reservations for some of the nights. > > Here's a
brief day by day look at our trip, it was awesome! > > Day 1:
Fly into Milan and head straight to the motorcycle rental
company > > to pick up a BMW 1150 touring bike. Ride north to
Como and check into > our hotel and then continue around Lake Como up
to Mandello del Lario to > > go to the Guzzi Factory/Museum. We
arrived right at 3:00pm which was > good because the museum is only
open from 3:00pm~4:00pm on weekdays. > The museam was great, I had an
idea of what it would be like because I > had seen pictures of it
before, but it was cooler than imagined. The > tour guide let me cross
the ropes and get a close look at some of the > racing machines even
though I don't speak a lick of Italian (I think > that drooling in
universally understood). From there we continued up > the east coast
of Lake Como and then took a ferry across with the bike > and rode
back down along the west coast to Como for the night. The
lake > > is beautiful! > > Day 2: Left Como went
back through Milan down to Maranello and visited > the Ferrari museum.
Again, a lot of very beautiful machines. They had > a ton of engines
out on display and cutaways showing their technology in > >
brakes / clutches / suspension / etc... Very cool! From there we >
continued on to Bologna for the night. > > Day 3: Went to the
Ducati Factory / Museum only to find out that we > were 15 minutes
late for the tour and they would not allow us to enter. > > They
said that we could wait for the next tour, but that started in 5 >
hours so we opted to leave. I was bummed but it turned out okay
because > > we went down to Florence for the day and that is an
incredible city. > The architecture is breathtaking and there is a lot
of people and action > > there. We continued on down to a small
town in Tuscany where we stayed > at a 1600's hunting manor. Our room
had 20-foot ceilings and the whole > place was great. > >
Day 4: Stayed at the hunting manor for another night but did a day
trip > up to Cortona (the movie Under the Tuscan Sun was filmed
there). It was > > really cool because it is up on a hillside so
you can see for miles and > appreciate how beautiful the country
is. > > Day 5: Rode to Pontedera to the Piaggio Museum (Vespa /
Gilera) and > spent an hour there. They put a lot of effort into that
museum and it > was almost as cool as the Guzzi museum. Beutiful
displays of some > really unique machines. Continued on to Pisa and
checked out the > Leaning Tower, not much else there. Hopped back on
the Beemer and rode > to Genove for the night. It is the port town
that Columbus was from but > > it was kind of a dirty city and
didn't seem like it had that much to > offer for
tourists. > > Day 6: Rode the bike back up to Milan and turned
it in (it was a bit of > > a relief because people drive like
mad in the city and it was nice to be > > able to relax a bit.
The tollways are a bit expensive but the road > surface and the views
are great). Spent the day walking around and > shopping in
Milan. > > Day 7: Back to Detroit (about 1.5 hours to Amsterdam
and 8 more to > Detroit). > > I still can't believe that
Dana planned the whole trip and that I had no > > idea where we
were going. I am going to be hard-pressed to match this > when she
turns 30 next year! > > Later, > Jeff Buick >
Detroit, MI > > 1972 Eldo LAPD > 1974 Eldo LAPD >
1974 Eldo Civilian > 1972 V7-Sport > > Your free
subscription is supported by today's sponsor: >
------------------------------------------------------------------- >
Get a Great Credit Card for You Today > You can find a credit card to
fit your credit needs. > All types of credit cards -- 0% APRs,
Rewards, & Bad Credit. >
http://click.topica.com/caacpgdb1dfltb63b4qf/411Web >
------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Jeff
Buick Detroit, MI 1972 Eldo LAPD 1974 Eldo LAPD 1974 Eldo
Civilian 1972 V7-Sport Your free subscription is supported by
today's
sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Amazing
Diet Patch The fastest - Easiest way to lose weight! Try it now
FREE! http://click.topica.com/caacoW6b1dfltb63b4qf/MyDietPatches ------------------------------------------------------------------- Your
free subscription is supported by today's
sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Apply
now for a No-Annual-Fee Discover®Platinum Card 0% Intro APR*, No Annual
Fee, Up to 2% Cashback Bonus® award* Start Saving Today - APPLY NOW!
It's fast, easy and
<HR SIZE=1>
Do you Yahoo!? <A
href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/10/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail/static/efficiency.html">New
and Improved Yahoo! Mail</A> - Send 10MB
messages!</BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C465AB.500C1A80--

Subject: RE: Surprise Trip to Italy (long winded)

Author: Kevin Graf

Date: Jul 9, 2004, 8:55 AM

Post ID: 1717127325

Entire thread: