Thanks Loraine, I am pleased you had the opportunity to meet him....

Wayne parked his V-strom with us in Buenos Aires too many years ago to remember. He took a RO-RO (roll on - roll off) voyage from Europe to Buenos Aires and was bound and determined to do something meaningful in South America and increase his substantial fortunes in the process. He took up residence in our maid's quarters located in our classy apartment next to our parking garage.

He was delightful and came equipped with the latest gear - whether it be electronic or camping. He was the prodigy of landed gentry in Great Britain - he owned a country manor, he crashed his motorcycles frequently. He was a real man!

It was Wayne - the engineer who provided the needed electronics - for my now infamous boludometro - that has made friends and enemies across three continents. A boludometro measures the boludes in men and the beauty in women. Ask any Argentine - "what is a boludo?" and you will soon - after the laughter subsides, have a friend. Wayne and I had great fun testing the boludometro in and around Buenos Aires. It was a great pick up line - asking a beautiful Argentine woman - if we could measure her beauty with our boludometro ..... it worked as did everything Wayne touched.

I introduced the boludometro at Viedma, Argentina HUBB meeting about 10 years ago. Made a few enemies there - those who had no sense of humor.

Wayne hand crafted world class knives, bows and arrows that he often presented to the rich and famous, he was a soldier of fortune, an expert marksman - and was hired over and over to second many a world famous bow hunter as they took Africa's big five game animals. He seconded a famous Japanese bow hunter with a bow, not a rifle. The Japanese forbid any rifles... This is the kind of stuff Wayne did without the slightest hint - unless you asked.

And there was more, much more. He invented a simple method to extract arsenic from water - the arsenic introduced into the water tables by over zealous mining companies - that is what he was doing in Chile early on. Later, he had several large contracts to test water for various South American governments.

Rosa del desierto and I had the honor to work with Wayne through the years as he came and went through Buenos Aires. We parked his motorcycle for him for many years www.Xfiltrate.com - Professional Motorcycle Parking and we always looked forward to his visits.

He was physically attacked by henchmen sent by a mining company because he was exposing the arsenic levels in various South American countries water and naming the mining company as the guilty party. All his research and gear was stolen but he managed to beat off the attackers with his ever present cane. He was a expert in several martial arts - he and I used to try to "take each other down" after a few s.

He probably spied for M-!6 the British Foreign Spy service ("probably") and was actually more Bondish than Bond himself. He was an immaculate dresser and imported all his evening wear - I remember him calling me from London - and asking what dress suits/shoes etc he could buy in Buenos Aires - this was prior to his arrival. He was always thinking ahead. He was an expert diner and drinker. Never seemed to be drunk - no matter how much he drank.

Rhodesia was his home - early on - and when he fought there later on- he was a decorated hero - but as most reading here know - heroes are a relative lot. But he - he was a hero by anyone's standards. He was a trained killer.

He was one of two engineers ever invited to join the Royal Academy of the Arts... the other was one of the inventors of the internet - no, it wasn't Al Gore!

I could go on and I will later, right now I stop to grieve. And, drink - a lot....Wayne was one of two men - I have met via our parking business - that I consider a true friend. He always had my back.

Gypsy - Wayne - we were never strangers - always true friends I am sure where ever you are now, you and your "band of brothers" are making it a better place for all...... thanks

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