I had an excellent ride today. Weather was nice and cool, the bike ran like a champ (after erne jumped it). I made it to albuquerque in time for my friend Keven to cook up some pork chops for dinner. The weather is nice and cool, and the mountains are calling. I'm going to try to stop by and see rodger tomorrow on my way out of town.
Excellent way to end a day, beers with an old friend.
Thanks for everything Huck.
Awesome ride this morning. Nice and cool, smooth roads and wonderful county. It's amazing to think people could cross this land on a horse. In 1860 there were people living out here. No roads, no power, no law, and no water that I can see. I did want to stop at one point and have coffe with the people of Earth, but they didn't have a coffe house. Damm.
Heading to meet up with a friend from high school tonight, so I'll be couch surfing.
Well I don't normally us the wheel lock on my bike. Last night I thought I would. The fine folks at Suzuki give you two options for this. One you turn the wheel and use your key to lock the wheel. The other (i didn't know about) you turn the key just a little further and it not only locks the wheel but it turns on the flashers. So now I have a dead bike. So thinking ahead I have roadside service (ernie) coming to jump the bike. Slow start, but it could be much worse. So I'll just relax and wait for Ernie. I have about three hundred miles to the mountains so should be fine.
I'm not sure how I'm doing as far as if I'm on pace out not, I'll just keep going and let that work it self out. I feel like I'm ahead, but then again I'm not moving.
Well I had a nice write up on day 4, but somehow I lost it. Maybe my brain was fried. It was a very hot day of riding. I went from nice forests to desert. Today I head for the mountains. It is cool out this morning, but I'm sure that will change.
Watching the sun rise, drinking a cup of coffe while listening to the Beatles is a wonderful way to start a day. One thing of note is they say things in Texas are bigger, well not all things. They have very very small ants. I was woken to a whole train of ants in my tent at 4:00 am. I had to move ot to the hammock for the rest of the night. Turns out it's hard to tell a good thing from a bad thing. The hammock was easy cooler, and the breeze kept me swinging back and forth. Once the sun was up, so was I.
So I'm off to see where I can go from here. I don't think I'll get to the mountains today but I'll get close.
And away we gooooooo!
