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<\/a>Yes, the rumors are true, your faithful blogger, like a latter day Don Quixote has done the foolish thing and bought a motorcycle. In fact, I call her Rocinante, and she is pictured here. Far from the tired old nag the real Don rode, she is a rather beautiful and powerful beast. <\/p>\n
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So, like Don Quixote, scorning all the sage and sensible advice from the boringly correct and safe people, I mount my steed and ride across the American south tilting at windmills and having various adventures. I even have a kind of Sancho Panza in the form of my friend and fellow rider, Mikael, a stout fellow and a former soldier who drives a truck for a living, carves and smokes pipes and is a jolly convert to the Catholic faith from being a backwoods Baptist.\n
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I may even derive a book from the adventures of a motorcycling priest across the Bible belt. Maybe I will call it, Leather and Lace\u2013 the Risque Adventures of a Traditionalist Biker. <\/i>Perhaps Sancho and I will cruise across Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi conducting retreats, evangelizing bikers and truckers and discussing religion with Baptists and hillbillies and all sorts of fascinating folks\u2026<\/div>\n
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PS: Don\u2019t worry. I always wear my leather jacket, helmet and boots.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocinante<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yes, the rumors are true, your faithful blogger, like a latter day Don Quixote has done the foolish thing and bought a motorcycle. In fact, I call her\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/10\/rocinante.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rocinante\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes, the rumors are true, your faithful blogger, like a latter day Don Quixote has done the foolish thing and bought a motorcycle. 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