Painting on Motorcycles in Miami (5 Minute Freewrite)

All photos are mine... from when I used to paint (and etch) on motorcycles for a living.

Our traveling home for our family of seven (plus our dog)

I've written about it briefly here before, but about 16 years ago, we lost our house and nearly everything in it to black mold. We took what we had left, bought an old bus and went on the road. We took our five children (at that time they ranged from 1-10) and lived on the road for almost three years.

_{This was the rally where I traded a tattoo artist... a custom painted leather vest in exchange for my oh so classy tramp stamp tattoo ;)}

While we were on the road, I painting and etched on motorcycles (and painted on leather as well) and between 'motorcycle rallies' we explored the country in between locations.

We always started the 'season' in Florida, because that's where it got warmest first. Since motorcycles aren't going to be out and about when it's cold, that was the start of our 'season'.

Florida was ALWAYS miserable. It was "unseasonably" humid or rainy or COLD every single time we were there (and every time SINCE THEN!) and I just have very few good memories of ever being in Florida.

Since today's prompt is "Miami" I'll just talk about the last time I remember painting in Miami.
First off, of course that was the year that it rained for the entire rally "Miami Bike Week". It rained so hard that there was no customers and my big plastic tubs full of my supplies, paints and equipemtn kept FLOATING AWAY.

We finally moved from that location due to the floating supplies, but before we did, I got a customer! He said, "Can you paint my leg?"

I said, "No, I'm sorry. The paint is lead based, so it would be toxic."

He replied with, "Oh, no problem." Then he proceeded to removed his fake leg and set it on the table in front of me with only the shoe holding it up. He then handed me the cash for the paint job and said he'd be waiting in the bar.

I painted "realistic" looking flames on his leg and heard about him off and on as the season continued. I can't find a picture, unfortunately.

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art and flair courtesy of @PegasusPhysics

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