These are some events and photos of us practicing right before the trip.
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| Mini-Church party right before we left |
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| Rest at a practice run days before the trip |
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| Having dinner with special friends a few days before the trip |
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| Practicing in the hills of Santa Monica, California |
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Robin and I were members of Hope Chapel (www.hopechapel.org), a Four Square Gospel church in Hermosa Beach, California. This was the church where I became born again and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Just a few weeks after this, I was at a singles retreat that was put on by the church, and that is where I first met Robin.
I specifically remember this singles retreat. We stood in line for lunch and I think it was in this line where I first 'heard' Robin. At the time, I worked in a bicycle/moped shop, owned both bicycle and moped, and worked on them both extensively. In fact, I put thousands of miles on my Puch moped on the streets of Los Angeles during the early eighties, I look back at that and thank God for taking care of me on the streets of LA!
Well, getting back to 'hearing Robin for the first time'. While standing in the food line at the singles retreat, I faintly heard the distant roar of a high revving moped engine. I looked up toward the nearing sound and found that my instincts were correct. There came a moped with a person clothed in what appeared to be a kind of snowmobile suit with the rider wearing a helmet, I guess it was a little cold that day. I thought to myself, "Man, I'm gonna go over there and check this dude out and see how he likes his moped." Well, the next thing I know, she takes her helmet off and naturalizes her hair in the wind, kind of like the slow motion thing you see in the movies, that's where it all started and it's still going strong!
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