1946	i was born in paris on october 1st. I am number 4 of 6.
1953	at age 7 i decided to be independent and not to trust my surrounding
1962	my dad offer me my first 2 wheels motor driven vehicle the "Mobylette Orange" (known to be faster than the blue one)
1966	my first trip alone: i rented a donkey and went around israel starting from the Kibbutz Eindor in Gallilee.. i sold it at the market  in nazareth !
1967	the french army confirm that i was not made to fit the mold

 

 

1970	with my friend Yan (my mentor in freedom) , we tour japan on 2 motorcycles yamaha trail 125cc that we bought in Tokyo.
1971	with my brother william, we went around the red sea on a V700 Guzzi with sidecar and a 450cc mono Ducati Scrambler ...starting from paris and crossing Italia, yugoslavia, turkey, syria, iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt... 15000km (9300 miles) and 4 deserts in 4 months
1972	i had my scariest ride on a motorcycle with a street bike Suzuki going down the gorge du verdon in france on a donkey trails.
1973	we ride around indonesia on a small honda going from mountain village to cremation and chack a chack dance.
1973	i married Frank (Francoise) the mother of my daughters eve and lucie.

 

 

1974	Eve was born in paris
1975	lucie was born in paris
1977	November 12, we open the left bank night club Paradis Latin... i run it for 7 years, this where i met Lorraine (jessica's mom)
1981	i raced the "croisiere verte" de Thierry Sabine with Dennis, Giorgio and Francois
1983	Jessica was born in paris

 

 

1983	we moved to los Angeles USA
1984	i married Lorraine Person, mother of my daughter Jessica
1988	we moved to New York City
1990	i bought a color separation business in manhattan with 3 employees i name it Power Color and grow it to 25 employees

 

 

1995	December 15: Doctor Posner told me "you have a cancer on your neck and you need surgery this week and then a treatment of radiation. my chances of survival was 90%. i went to put my name on the list (of the 90% survivor)
1995	We adopt Betty
1996	summer: for the next 5 years with my brother william and a few friends, every summer we ride our harley davidson every summer in the rocky mountain. The second years, i took lucie with me then eve the next year and jessica then after.
2000	i closed power color

 

 

2001	december: with lucie, i did  my first iron butt ride (1000 miles in 24 hours) from Baltazar New York and around Virginia - i did many of them after.
2001	september 11: living in manhattan on broadway at 20 blocks from the twin towers... i heard the plane above our building and hear the explosion... i went on the roof took a few  photographs and went down to see on the events on TV... People were walking silently uptown by thousands... i left my camera home and went in the street... i needed to share the despair with all these peoples... some i took a few at home to let them call their relatives... (the cells phones were saturated but the hard lines worked) people were calm, in disarray, some crying while walking ...after lunch, i took my sidecar and pick up a photo journalist Christine she was white from the dust and  livid like all of us... she spend the morning shooting around the twin tower and needed to go to her photo agency in mid town to deliver her film rolls... i still talk to her every years on september 11...
2001	May i married annie the mother of Maia (in her 30's)
2001	october i decided to fill the shortage of real estate broker in Manhattan.. i met there some amazing peoples including the best manager of the all world Chris Peters form Douglas Elliman.

 

 

2002	summer: with Annie, we ride a chin motorcycle in vietnam along the chinese border to Dien Bien Phu....
2003	May 16: my dad passed away in paris. This is what i say at the church ceremony at his funeral.
2004	november, living now alone and Jessica graduating from college in the coming may, i decided to sell all my belongings, move from my broadway home to my sidecar and start my 10 years on the road...
2005	December.. i went to say to say good by to Doctor Larry Schemen my ORL doctor who operate me in 1995 for my cancer and follows me all these years... the 10 years being over, i ask him to take me off his lists!!!

 

 

2005	March 11: Solo on my sidecar, i crossed the arctic circle line on the Dempster Highway on my way to tuktoyaktuk. I left new york february 16 at 6:04am and drive 5750 miles to the arctic ocean...
2005	all summer: Guzzi-ng europe, from France to Switzerland, Italia, Spain and England, i visited in their home, all the people i love that i did not see for a long time... some of them for 34 years...
2005	July 7th, Lucie and Pascal's little Noah was born. I became a grandfather.

 

 

 

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