april 08, 2009 12:01am
June 30. 2008 Riding with Harry Watts
June 30. 2008.
This day started with a beautiful sunrise at the home of Kevin and Sharon West. They are the owners of IYFC Motorcycles, an innovative company with a lot of products relating to the motorcycling business. You can look them up at their web page www.iyfcmotorcycles.com and check them it out.
Harry Watts was in Ottawa for the fifth stop on the tour. He called me at 10am and we arranged to meet at the Canadian War Museum to confirm the F.O.V’s appearance on Canada Day.
Harry and I talked with Ralph Brassard, one the team leaders at the museum and he arranged to accommodate our charity with a spot to talk to the public about our video gathering mission.
One of the great things about being involved in part of this historic journey is obvious, meeting all of the veterans on the tour and gathering a little piece of history while being able to spend time with them, especially men like Harry Watts.
After our meeting with Ralph Harry I rode back to his hotel in Kanata, and for those of you who don’t live in this area of Canada you don’t know how much it can rain all at once. Well, Harry and I started the ride back to his hotel and the downpour started just then Harry looked over at me, and we both knew what we were in for, a soaking. Sure enough I was soaked but Harry has a large windshield on his bike and was relatively dry. What a great afternoon for the memory banks.
