Travels with the Original Easyrider®
2019 Edition

Tour, hiking and random tidbits
Not worthy of their very own page
Throughout 2019 and times gone by....




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Here's a link to a Collage that I put together as a homework
assignment many moons ago....


And if you're interested, here are a few pictures taken in many Years Gone By











Eloise and I no longer do requests but here's one going out to
Downtown Jessica Brown, aka the Daughter formerly known as The Jeep:

Shemekia Copeland - Somebody Else's Jesus

Look up the lyrics sometime, ok?

You love Jesus oh so very, very much. But you hate some people so very
very much for falling short of being what you think they should be.
The French say this about people like that:...se conduire betement.




The Daughter formerly known as The Jeep was such a little angel the
last time I saw her some 40+ years ago.....
well, perhaps a devilish little angel but still..... I prefer to remember
her this way and not as the rather unkind and unforgiving person she grew
up to be.


Just in case the end of the runway is coming up quickly, I didn't want
the biggest sorrow in my sorrow-filled life to pass by unnoticed.
The greatest joy in my life was witnessing her birth. The greatest pain
in my heart is that my darling little baby girl wouldn't piss on me if I
was on fire.

Life sure is a mean old dog....

Should I even mention my two Sons? No, I guess not.




Wayne County has sold off the former Eloise Psychiatric Hospital complex
in Westland to developers for just one dollar.




History of Eloise

The Eloise began as the Wayne County Poorhouse, which opened in 1839 in
the now defunct Nankin Township.

Nankin was a part of Wayne County, originally named Bucklin Township, and
it included what are now the cities of Livonia, Inkster, Dearborn, Redford,
Wayne and Westland.

The complex had its own police and fire department, bakery and railroad.

Eloise was one of the first hospitals to use x-rays for diagnosis. It was
also home to the first kidney dialysis unit in Michigan.

The complex eventually expanded - spanning 902 acres, with more than 70
buildings.

The facility had a radium treatment for cancer patients, and the
sanitarium was one of the first to use "open air" treatment for
tuberculosis patients.

Psychiatric patients underwent electroshock and insulin shock therapy.

After the Great Depression, the population of the complex started to
decrease, as reports of violence, questionable conditions, misconduct
and overall neglect surfaced.

Farm operations ceased in 1958, and the psychiatric division began to
close in 1977 when the state took over.

The main hospital closed in 1984.




What a cute little goil..... Jessica Jeep Junior?



Pics taken at our Idaho Enhanced CHL training class. Got to try out
my Colt 1875 SA Peacemaker and my Sig Sauer Legion SAO. The Sig really
blasted the hell out of the target!














Pictures of me taken at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum in Brooks,
Oregon.










Picture taken on our colorful weed visit to Rowena Crest, Spring, 2019.
Sporting my 1875 Colt Peacemaker SA .45 cal revolver.




We came across the rare 1990-91 Nissan Figaro at the Aloha Fred Meyer.
Note the right hand drive..... this model was only available in Asia....
primarily in Japan.








Pic of me and my little Sister taken at Chatham Lighthouse, Cape Cod
in September, 2018.




Late Fall 2018 stop at Beacon Rock,





Returned to Pendleton a little sooner than planned to have a chin strap
put on prior to my trip home to Boston. Julie surprised me with an early
Christmas present. She and Perk cooked up a little scheme to have a
Buffalo Nickel themed hat band ready to install as soon as we got there.
What a nice goil....












These images were taken with my Nikon D810 and my nifty fifty lens.



I've lived here for 30 years and this is the most snowed in I've ever been here.
These pictures were taken several days after the storm was over. Hasn't been above
freezing since. Probably won't clear out for another few days.























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