We get a lot of cyclists during the summer. Ron rolled up for a short two-day visit. Ron is a “Baby Boomer” from Indiana (as in Jones) U.S.A.
He’s an aircraft? Mechanic by profession; a British resident by choice;? a cancer survivor by grace. He is a permanent resident of the United Kingdom being married to a British National since his universiy days. He loves living in the UK for two quite disparate reasons.
The first is the excellent universal free health care provided in Britian and the second is his loathing of certain American right-wing polititians.
He has spent the past few months cycling around the U.S. to see if things have changed and to scope out career opportunities. Suffice to say he has opted to return to England.
Perhaps it has been the cancer treatments (six years in remission) that give him a thin, gaunt, sallow apearance offset by his long hair. But once he dons his cycling gear you can see his powerful legs from years of bike riding. It almost seems as if he could kickstart the engines of the jet aircraft he works on.
