The Dream

Life this time was dangerous. The Cold War was still ongoing, the USA sent more and more GI's to Vietnam, Dubcek wanted to reform Czeckoslovakia and free his country from the Warsaw pact. Young people went on the streets protesting about the establishment.

I was about 20. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper rode easy on 'Captain America' and the 'Billy Bike' in the classic motion picture 'Easy Rider' and Steppenwolf sang the anthem of an entire generation 'Born to be wild'. It made me the dream of my life, riding a Harley all the way down from Chicago to L.A. on Highway 66. I didn't expect to make this dream come true, because all I could afford was a Kreidler Florett. And when my uncle gave me his NSU Prinz 4 as a gift I instantly belonged to the establishment. I thought I would never again be a motorcycle rider.

I became an engineer in electronics. My first job led me to the south of Germany, to Lake Konstanz. I met Anita and married her in 1973. She gave birth to two children, Marcel 1977 and Kerstin in 1981. Years went by. A system integration job brought me to our company in Pittsburgh,PA. After weeks of stress and overtime I took a plane and went west. Besides San Francisco, the Monument Valley etc. I had a look at Route 66 from Kingman,Az to Seligman,Az. And when I met bikers on this road the dream came up again.