My Favorite Things

©2009 Simon Revere Mouer III, all rights reserved

1987 Honda VT700C

still rolling strong
at 23+ years
and 75,000+ miles

Rode it from:
Virginia to California
 and back,
Virginia to Mexico
and back,
in the Philippines,
but now
 just around Texas

stock engine
slightly modified frame
slightly modified seat
homemade back rest
home-made saddlebags
homemade sissy bar
homemade mud flaps
modified  fork boots
modified windshield
oversize tires

Every couple of years or so I think it died its last death but a new battery transplant and new spark plugs and it roars back to life again.

Colt 45
single-action, six shot
revolver

The classic American firearm

German 9mm Lugar

I don't own one, but would if I could afford it -

Given the multi-thousand dollar prices
I think there is a high demand for this design, and a short supply.  I don't understand why someone isn't manufacturing these for collectors.

Anfra

It had a 60 hp Mazda engine
 in a Philippine chassis

It wouldn't go fast, or far,

but it was the right car
 in the right place
 at the right time

no longer manufactured
and parts hard to get

It would hold 8 adults
or 15 children, but usually
just myself, my wife,
my two daughters,
our two maids,
our abandoned child,
 my wife's sister and mother, and a couple of friends. 

Mazda Tribute

Won't hold as many people as the Anfra, but I carried a 26 cu. ft. refrigerator in it

Gave me a lot of trouble at first, but now seems to be settling down to a fine transport

Inflatable Pontoon Boat

This is the kind of boat
 I would want

if I had a boat.

Mini-Mansion
 in the Philippines

A very pretty wife,
two lovely babies,
and lots of love,

lots of parties,
lots of friends,
lots of good memories.

It was a good life
in the Philippines

and I miss it.

For $350 / month
It was big enough for the four of us - myself, my wife, and my two daughters

but add in
our ward, my sister-in-law, and two live-in maids

plus at times my mother-in-law, and a couple of visitors,

and it got pretty crowded.

A Little Cabin
 in the woods

somewhere
 in Nowhere County
in the middle of Texas

by a creek
or a pond

at the foot of a mountain
 

Something like this

in a place close enough
 to civilization
to reap its benefits

but far from the
maddening crowd