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My wife and I amicably separated in 1990 and she went to Florida to stay with her sister. I was in a bit of a funk that year and a couple of my buddies suggested we take a cross-country motorcycle trip together. I was eligible for three weeks of vacation that year and decided to take all three weeks in a row and go. Come August my buddies backed out and I packed up my dome tent, a bedroll, sleeping bag and a U.S. Atlas in those pre-GPS days and loaded up my 1986 Honda Magna 750cc and rode from Bangor, Maine to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in the rain. From there I rode down to the Florida Keys and then back up around the Gulf Coast all the way to Houston. At that point I was halfway through my vacation and decided to head back. I went through Arkansas, across Tennessee into Georgia and rode through the Great Smokey Mountains back up through Kentucky and Ohio all the way to Buffalo. There I crossed at Niagara Falls into Toronto and rode through Canada and came back down in upstate New York and made my way back across to Maine. I averaged 500 miles per day, stayed off the Interstate and kept to back roads, went through 22 states and two Canadian provinces, saw a lot of Eastern America that I'd never seen before as well as lots of little kids with their thumbs in the air.

Moving up into the 1990s today with my collection. The Leaf set was added to sets I needed to acquire that year. There had been Leaf sets in prior years but they pretty much mirrored the Donruss sets and although I had all those, 1990's set was a different design. Here are nine cards from my collection all released in 1990.

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1990 Baseball Wit Unnumbered #3 Mickey Mantle (I bought this complete set on eBay. It was a couple years later that I learned that the cards were supposed to be numbered and I had a more valuable version of the set.)
1990 Baseball Wit Unnumbered #86 Babe Ruth
1990 Bowman Tiffany #268 Roger Clemens

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1990 Fleer Canadian #461 Barry Bonds (Looks just like a regular Fleer card but has printed in Canada on the back.)
1990 King B Discs #16 Ken Griffey Jr. (This was included in a package of beef jerkey.)
1990 King B Discs #22 Nolan Ryan

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1990 Leaf #300 Frank Thomas RC
1990 Leaf #325 Larry Walker RC
1990 Topps Batting Leaders #21 Rickey Henderson