A small world…

Wow, what are the odds of this…

My photo of Carla King on our Tahoe ride

Carla King, author of American Borders and international motorcycle adventurer, spent a night here on her way south a week or so ago.   You  read about that in an earlier blog entry.    Carla has done some very cool rides.  American Borders is about her adventure riding a Ural all around the US and Canada.   Her new book (the one she is writing now) is about her adventures in China on a Chang Jiang.   The Chang Jiang is another BMW boxer twin clone, except the CJ guys based their design on the old BMW flathead design.  

Okay, so where am I going with this story, you are  probably wondering…

As Sue and I prepared dinner, Carla wanted to know about our Baja trip on the California Scooters and she wanted to see my red Baja Blaster.  I like showing off, so it was out to the garage we went.  I have a lot of cool stuff in my garage.  It’s my man cave.  In addition to the toys I keep out there, I’ve got a bunch of photos plastered all over the garage walls.  It’s not that they’ve been relegated to the garage because I think they’re unimportant…I’ve just run out of wall space in the house. 

Photos in the man cave...you might recognize my good buddy Jay Leno in the upper left photo. The photo of interest here is the one in the middle on the bottom row...that's a photo I shot in Beijing, China, more than 10 years ago!

Anyway, I’ve got a bunch of my favorites out there, including the ones you see in the photo above.     As Carla perused the collection, she got excited when she saw the photo in the middle center below.

“Oh, do you know Jim?” she asked.

“Huh?” I answered.  “Jim who?”

Carla pointed at the photo.  It’s the same one I showed you in the blog a few entries down….

Our mutual acquaintence, Jim, in Beijing!

You know, the amazing thing is that I took that photo literally on the other side of the world more than a decade ago, and Carla knew the guy.   She’d actually been to that very spot.   In Beijing.   China.    Carla studied the photo closely and said that the motorcycle in it might very well have been the actual one she rode.

Small world, don’t you think?