John Merrick:
CLASS OF 1970
West High SchoolClass of 1970
Salt lake city, UT
Granite High SchoolClass of 1971
Salt lake city, UT
Backman Elementary SchoolClass of 1964
Salt lake city, UT
John's Story
Wow Left SLC for the Navy in Jan 71 came home with a gimpy leg Jan 74 from a little motorcycle accident in Greece, Funny I was laying on a gurney in the hospital at the Air Force Base and Stephanie Taylor walked by and asked what are you doing here... Small world
Slummed around most of that summer on a new motorcycle and started a job in the Salt Lake County Jail in Sept 1974, it was supposed to be something to do in between being unemployed. Turns out I was good at it and I stayed 26 years retiring on my birthday in 2000. I'd intended to have a second career doing something, something turned out to be traveling. I had taken my motorcycle to Europe in June and Jul...Expand for more
y of 2000, And while I'd always had an itch to travel ended up now 21 years later with motorcycles on two continents North America here in Salt Lake and at a friends home who since has become more a brother to me about a half an hour East of the Stuttgart Airport. Counting the miles ridden over there I'm ballpark 100,000 miles Every country in Western Europe to include St. Petersburg Russia and Istanbul Turkey.... Total miles some 600,000 on 2 harleys 6 bmw's and one Ducati900Sl in mid life crisis YELLOW
My life so far can be summed up in two songs the Grateful Dead's Truckin 'What a long strange trip it's been!" and Joe Walsh's "life's been good to me so far...."
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