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MY GOOD FRIEND BOB WALDMIRE - A STORY AND MEMORIAL by Ken Turmel - December 16, 2009 Greetings Fellow Route 66'ers and those of you who are a personal friend of my dear and close roadie buddy Bob…
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Hey Josh!
The cruise from Springfield to Chicago is awesome! Don't forget to get your postmarks on the way. ;o)
P.S. - The most recent post office on your Route 66 PostmarkArt to close down is the Oklahoma City Main Office built in 1966. Yet anoth…
Hey Cort!
Just got home this afternoon and had a terrific ride with the Norwegian Road Warrior crew. I always enjoy guiding them thru the Mo., KS., OK., TX. Route 66 Territories and making the many classic stops along the way. There were 20 riders…
Hi Cort!
Yep, was actually nice to take an extra day off in Clinton... visit the museum and take in some poolside R&R with no rain. Am back home right now, but will be heading back out on Route 66 this Thursday to meet up and ride the motorhorse wi…
Hey Cort!
Great to hear from you. The Route 66 Adventure is terrific. Am currently in Clinton and the rains have finally stopped... at least for now until tomorrow. Since the weather is co-operating today, I think we'll stay here an extra day to vi…
Hey Chris!
Thanks for your welcoming comments. They are much appreciated. It's good to be back online again. Am currently on a Route 66 motorcycle tour as I write this and am kicking back in Amarillo today with a couple cold ones and taking a break…
Greetings Chris!
If my memory serves correctly, the post about the Route 66 quarters was posted sometime last month or so on the Route 66 E-Group at Yahoo. Josh Friedrich, is part of this topic thread and I'm fairly sure that when he reads your mes…
This is quite odd that you should mention this. I remember once someone doing exactly what you have just mentioned, when they publically posted something much too personal in nature on the Route 66 E-Group.
James M Conkle on July 7, 2008 at 11:54am…
People whom have an interest in Route 66 and collect items related to its past, present, and future. Please share with us your pieces of history for all to learn, enjoy, and promote.
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- Sex:
- Male
- Birthday:
- October 19, 1956
- Hometown:
- Oklahoma City
- Country:
- U.S.A.
- About Me:
- One could say that I'm just a Route 66 and Two Lane Amercia motorhorse rider travelin' from town to town while taking the paths that are much less traveled. An adventurer.
"To see something that you've never seen before,...
You must go somewhere you've never been before."
From 1995 thru 1997, while accumulating over 28,000 miles of cross country travel going back and forth from Chicago to Los Angeles, I made a personal stop and visit in each and every town and city along The Mother Road to obtain the official postmark from each post office along the way. Thus, the final results became a true historic document and artwork masterpiece which commemorated the 70th Anniversary of Route 66 and a rememberance of the interesting people that I met along the way. During my two years of travel, I had the pleasure to meet and greet with many famous Route 66 Personalities. People such as Bobby Troup; who wrote the song "Get Your Kicks on Route 66", Jim Rogers; son of the late Will Rogers, Angel Delgadillo; well known barber is Seligman, AZ., Michael Wallis; auther of "Route 66: The Mother Road", and 25 other very interesting and important people who all graced the historic artwork document with their signature.
Unfortunately, as time has gone by, a few of the small towns have dwindled down to almost nothing and the post office has since closed, while 9 of the famous Route 66 Personalities who autographed on the project have since passed away and are no longer with us.
It has indeed become a Historical Artwork Document.
An extremely rare signed and numbered limited edition set of full size prints of the original "66 and More" historic documentation artwork has been released. To view and obtain your own personal milestone copy please visit the website. Prints orders are available online at:
www.Route66Artwork.com
Once your print arrives to you and is proudly displayed on your wall, you'll be glad that you did not hesitate before the one time only edition is sold out.
- Favorite Music:
- Rock 'n' Roll
- Why are you here
- For the support of keeping Route 66 alive and well.
- List Of My Favorite Route 66 Places
- Santa Monica Boulevard (Route 66) and the Grand Canyon
Ken 'the landrunner' Turmel ~ Route 66 Motorcycle Tour Guide, Adventurer, Historian, Writer, Artist ~ Creator of the "First and Original Historic Route 66 Artwork that Actually Traveled the Entire Length of The Mother Road from Chicago to Los Angeles".
Ken 'the landrunner' Turmel's Biography
Kenneth Turmel was born October 19, 1956, directly on Route 66, just a few blocks from its end in Santa Monica, California. He graduated from El Camino Real High School in the San Fernando Valley in 1974. Upon graduation, he enlisted into the United States Air Force later that same year. Throughout his entire military tour of duty, Ken remained in the top ten percent of his training classes in the radio communications career field.
After his honorable discharge from the Air Force in 1979, he joined the ranks of the United States Postal Service as a mail clerk and retired from his position in 1994, after 20 years of dedicated Federal Government service. Ken was extremely versatile during his postal career, for he had acquired the knowledge and skills of 35 different jobs and positions. He received several awards and certificates of recognition for his suggestions and ideas to postal management. Ken is also a song writer, producer/engineer and part-time musician. From 1982 until 1987, he owned and operated a multi-track recording studio. Two songs, which Ken wrote and recorded in 1985, have received regional airplay in the central Oklahoma area.
In the spring of 1993, the Oklahoma "Cherokee Strip Land Run" postage stamp was introduced by the United States Postal Service. That sparked Ken to put his music career on the back burner for a while, in order to concentrate on a "new idea" that he had. Ken will always admit that this new idea came to him in a dream from the Lord. He woke up one morning and promptly put his dream to work and the result is what he calls "Postmarkart".
His Postmarkart artworks consists of mint postage stamps placed on colorful, hand-painted backgrounds of state border outlines. These very large pieces of artworks are then hand-carried to hundreds of post offices throughout the United States, specifically for the purpose of acquiring historically significant postmarks to be placed directly atop the original artwork background. Each postmark is inked in its own city and mile by mile the artwork blossoms into a wonderful collage masterpiece. His methodical procedure of personally delivering each artwork to each and every post office is never compromised. The artworks are never mailed to accomplish this tedious task. Besides that, creating a large Postmarkart project is extremely time and cost sensitive, and Ken would never let the original artworks get very far from his sight.
The "pictorial postmarks" which were placed on the artworks, commemorating specific celebrations along Ken's postmarking routes, have all expired and have been destroyed by the postal service according to regulations. This means that the Postmarkarts become historical documents at the same time as they are being created. These works have been acclaimed to be a "first of its kind" by over 1000 postmasters and postal officials, including many confirmations from various museums, collectors and professional artists.
Frequently dubbed as "the land runner", Ken has accumulated well over 150,000 miles of travel gathering postmarks and autographs within a 20 state region. He is currently working on some new and interesting Postmarkart projects which include the topics of the Lincoln Highway, California Sesquicentennial, Arizona Centennial and New Mexico Centennial. Ken believes that someday soon, all the postmarks he has acquired will be "lost in time" and will be no longer available. His plans are to keep landrunning for postmarks for as long as he can. I anticipate that someday Ken will take his music career and recording studio off that back burner. He is always coming up with all sorts of new and creative ideas.
So, in the meantime, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Until then, sit back and enjoy the historical Postmarkart. Happy Trails for now!
Here are Ken's favourite pages and info that he would like to share with you:
"Route 66 and More" PostmarkArt:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/66more.htm
"Oklahoma and Friends" PostmarkArt:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/oklahoma.htm
"Texas Sesquicentennial Document" PostmarkArt:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/texas.htm
"Adventure Centennial Document" PostmarkArt:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/adventure.htm
PostmarkArt News Articles:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/news_articles.htm
Ken's Route 66 / Grand Canyon Adventure ~ 9 Part / 92 Pics Photo Tour:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/GrandCanyonAdventure/sets/
"My Good Friend Bob Waldmire" ~ Feature Story Article by Ken Turmel:
http://twolaneadventure.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-good-friend-bob-waldmire-story-and.html
Ken's Facebook Page:
http://www.Facebook.com/thelandrunner
Ken's Website HomePage:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com
Ken's Email Address:
thelandrunner@hotmail.com
All images and text copyrighted © 1993 - 2005 by Kenneth N. Turmel
Kenneth Turmel was born October 19, 1956, directly on Route 66, just a few blocks from its end in Santa Monica, California. He graduated from El Camino Real High School in the San Fernando Valley in 1974. Upon graduation, he enlisted into the United States Air Force later that same year. Throughout his entire military tour of duty, Ken remained in the top ten percent of his training classes in the radio communications career field.
After his honorable discharge from the Air Force in 1979, he joined the ranks of the United States Postal Service as a mail clerk and retired from his position in 1994, after 20 years of dedicated Federal Government service. Ken was extremely versatile during his postal career, for he had acquired the knowledge and skills of 35 different jobs and positions. He received several awards and certificates of recognition for his suggestions and ideas to postal management. Ken is also a song writer, producer/engineer and part-time musician. From 1982 until 1987, he owned and operated a multi-track recording studio. Two songs, which Ken wrote and recorded in 1985, have received regional airplay in the central Oklahoma area.
In the spring of 1993, the Oklahoma "Cherokee Strip Land Run" postage stamp was introduced by the United States Postal Service. That sparked Ken to put his music career on the back burner for a while, in order to concentrate on a "new idea" that he had. Ken will always admit that this new idea came to him in a dream from the Lord. He woke up one morning and promptly put his dream to work and the result is what he calls "Postmarkart".
His Postmarkart artworks consists of mint postage stamps placed on colorful, hand-painted backgrounds of state border outlines. These very large pieces of artworks are then hand-carried to hundreds of post offices throughout the United States, specifically for the purpose of acquiring historically significant postmarks to be placed directly atop the original artwork background. Each postmark is inked in its own city and mile by mile the artwork blossoms into a wonderful collage masterpiece. His methodical procedure of personally delivering each artwork to each and every post office is never compromised. The artworks are never mailed to accomplish this tedious task. Besides that, creating a large Postmarkart project is extremely time and cost sensitive, and Ken would never let the original artworks get very far from his sight.
The "pictorial postmarks" which were placed on the artworks, commemorating specific celebrations along Ken's postmarking routes, have all expired and have been destroyed by the postal service according to regulations. This means that the Postmarkarts become historical documents at the same time as they are being created. These works have been acclaimed to be a "first of its kind" by over 1000 postmasters and postal officials, including many confirmations from various museums, collectors and professional artists.
Frequently dubbed as "the land runner", Ken has accumulated well over 150,000 miles of travel gathering postmarks and autographs within a 20 state region. He is currently working on some new and interesting Postmarkart projects which include the topics of the Lincoln Highway, California Sesquicentennial, Arizona Centennial and New Mexico Centennial. Ken believes that someday soon, all the postmarks he has acquired will be "lost in time" and will be no longer available. His plans are to keep landrunning for postmarks for as long as he can. I anticipate that someday Ken will take his music career and recording studio off that back burner. He is always coming up with all sorts of new and creative ideas.
So, in the meantime, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Until then, sit back and enjoy the historical Postmarkart. Happy Trails for now!
Here are Ken's favourite pages and info that he would like to share with you:
"Route 66 and More" PostmarkArt:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/66more.htm
"Oklahoma and Friends" PostmarkArt:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/oklahoma.htm
"Texas Sesquicentennial Document" PostmarkArt:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/texas.htm
"Adventure Centennial Document" PostmarkArt:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/adventure.htm
PostmarkArt News Articles:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com/news_articles.htm
Ken's Route 66 / Grand Canyon Adventure ~ 9 Part / 92 Pics Photo Tour:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/GrandCanyonAdventure/sets/
"My Good Friend Bob Waldmire" ~ Feature Story Article by Ken Turmel:
http://twolaneadventure.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-good-friend-bob-waldmire-story-and.html
Ken's Facebook Page:
http://www.Facebook.com/thelandrunner
Ken's Website HomePage:
http://www.PostmarkArt.com
Ken's Email Address:
thelandrunner@hotmail.com
All images and text copyrighted © 1993 - 2005 by Kenneth N. Turmel
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 6:03pm on July 31, 2010,
Cort Stevens said…
- Hey Ken!!!! Hope you are well.
- At 6:48pm on July 28, 2010,
Anthony Black Wolf said…
- Ken, my old friend-how the hell are ya??? Deb and I divorced back in 05-I'm living in Indiana again (South Bend). Hope everything is well there-gonna have to hook up again soon! Trying to talk current lady into taking a ride down 66 on a Heritage Softail-just about got her excited about a road trip!!
- At 1:53pm on June 29, 2010,
Thomas Dion said…
- Thanks Ken. I look forward to cruising with you on the Mother Road on my next adventure! Until then, good luck on your tours this year!
- At 2:59pm on February 7, 2010,
mark powell said… - Be a few years before i get back to 66,but sure have to meet up.Off to Florida in a couple of weeks for bike week.Gonna be hard to leave my dog(wife fine LOL)as you can see he goes everywhere with me.
- At 3:29pm on February 5, 2010,
Ken 'the landrunner' Turmel said…
- Hey Mate! Yep, that was me with my trusty 1977 steed the TT500 on the dirt (and paved) portions of old 66! Check out the full 66 trail ride, some of my other steeds, and also a Kiamichi trail ride at my Flickr Photos page.
- At 10:53am on February 5, 2010,
mark powell said…
- Hi Ken from a fellow motorhorse rider from across the pond.Think i saw some of your old 66 trip photos on the yahoo group some dirt sections on a Yamaha tt500 or maybe it was someone else LOL. Safe riding
- At 4:15am on January 9, 2010,
Ken 'the landrunner' Turmel said…
- Thanks for the welcome Josh! Call on me anytime. Things will get rolling more when I can afford to upgrade from this older Windows98 laptop...which I am so thankful for right now! Thanks to my good friend Mike Ward who gave it to me so that I could be on the internet!! For without his good heart and gracious help, I would not be here online right now.
- At 9:59pm on January 8, 2010,
Josh Friedrich said… - Thanks for the friend add. Can't wait to see what you add to your page and bring to the site.
- At 11:09am on January 8, 2010,
Ken 'the landrunner' Turmel said…
- Greetings to ya Joe! Thanks for the greet! Am glad to be aboard here with the Route 66 People. Looking forward to meeting you personally and others here too as well. Look forward to hearing you and the band play and I might just have a 'monica or two on me at that time. God Bless and Happy Trails to All! ~ yer landrunnin' 66 Friend
- At 7:16am on January 8, 2010,
Joe Loesch said… - Hey Ken, Welcome to Route 66 People! Glad to have you along for the ride! Went through your town last October with my band. Maybe we'll meet next time?
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