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Sturgis2013

Page history last edited by jerry 10 years, 8 months ago

Sturgis2013

 


 

Introduction/Definition/etc

 

Once a year, and for the 73rd year, motorcyclists converge on Sturgis, SD http://www.sturgis-sd.gov/

for a Rally http://www.sturgis.com/...

 

Body

 

Having been to SpringBreak2013 earlier in the year,

things going on around here that would be good to get away from,

and needing a vacation while the congress gets one, etc,

so I thought I'd try Sturgis, the other big yearly bike event...

 

Friday

 

Prep

 

So, not sure exactly when it starts, but looking it up online around August,

early August.  Well more research shows some arrive July 31

and get a good campground, reservations made a year ahead, they want cash up front, etc...

 

Oil change, done myself with help, so might be OK on that,

well, it runs, get going? 

 

Why wait for expensive repairs, and checks on stuff, that it probably doesn't need?

 

Plenty of places to work on bikes along the way, or there, right?

 

Plan

 

So try a basic  skeletal budget/ plan for the trip,

Internet says about 1850 miles each way

 

Gas: $200 (10 tanks, assume $20/ gallon)

 

Lodging $20/day camping

 or $200 for a saloon/ concert TheBlackCrowes Monday! campground, available online,

 but no money yet for that, have to wait an see...

 

Food: $20/day, cheap plan is eat at grocery stores to keep the prices down

 

T shirts: $40, gotta prove I went, nobody will believe this...

 

Tolls: not really calculated, but assumed some for Florida, so might be some to SD?

 

Repairs: might need some stuff for the bike, tires, chain, extra accessories, etc

 

Gas back: $200

 

And off I went, or so I thought.

 

Company

 

I'd asked for company, a friend/ hopefully GF, but since she didn't want to go,

female companionship.   I'd be like kind of like a big teddy bear to hug for 30 hours

or so, or what I thought at the time...

 

Guys need not apply.  There are handles on the back, but never had a passenger...

 

 

Stuff

 

And Then there is The Stuff....  Camping Gear, clothes, etc...

 

It seems my only relationship is to my Stuff...

 

Might need to work on that, at least to have room for a passenger,

but she could have helped, in the decision making, packing, planning, etc,

 

Money solves most travel problems, you could buy what you need along the way,

most of the time....  On bicycles, credit card touring is done and hotels/ bed & breakfasts,

instead of camping, but in the wilderness, lodging can be few and far between...

 

So no one I'm interested in shows up at the start,

some guy talking about stuff, making me late, wait...

motorcycle talk, though not bad, wasn't what I had in mind.

at least to start...

 

Get a message, don't go, you lied, lose your place, being evicted, etc...

WTF?  I can take a vacation/ planned at that, whatever...

What's the lie, I asked and it was declined?  Someone else playing the jealousy card?

 

I'm overpacked/underplanned, as usual, and hanging around, waiting on an indeterminate start,

and anxious to get going around 10 am Friday.

 

Rush hour has ended, if I'm going, I better get going, or I'll just go back to bed,

and kick myself for a year, for missing it...

 

And tired of being stood up too...

 

Skip going back to pay rent in person, as have to get going, I can mail it in... 

Even express it if necessary...

 

Ride, go West young man, there's gold in them thar hills...

 

Forgot Stuff

 

Cameras,  charger(s), all sorts of things, a pocket knife, mini Leatherman  (tm) multitool off the chain,

for accessing a court building a while back.  Found a construction type pocket knife

along the road, but not carrying it ala DearBedBugs2013 ...

 

Buy More Stuff

 

Toiletries, protection, etc...

Get some breakfast too, granola bars, Fig Newtons (tm), OJ, whatever

Get some Cash back

 

 

Morgantown WV

 

There seems to be some things going on out in Wheeling, WV or somewhere out there in WV,

not the parts I'd been too much but whatever, details, just a town, passing through many anyway,

just head west, you will find it, read maps plan along the way...

 

Pennsylvania

 

Passing thru states, PA, first, call your family, check in,

Motto used to be "You Have a Friend in PA", but well, Philly isn't that Friendly, IMO,

Brotherly Love aside, so maybe that changed?

Thinking back, A Friend, read the fine print, in the state, motto gauranttees?

One person in the state likes you?

Population Millions,

do the math...

</Sarcastic Smile...>

 

 

Ohio

 

I've not spent a lot of time there, in my past,, but saw, while turning off to try to find Canton,

home of the Football Hall of Fame, a Canal, so went looking for cheap/ free hiker biker campsites

like the C&O Canal National Park system...

 

To no avail, but explains the change in route...

 

 

Use Card

 

Stop in at a friendly frozen dairy place, that seems to understand me, finally,

turns out to have a campground/ amusement park across the way...

 

Really ought to go back there sometime, but trying to go to SD,

or will kick myself for likely the rest of me life...

(and the inverse, BTW...)

 

Get a call message from / thru virtual strangers...

 

Your headlight is out, was to keep you from riding during the night when we can't see you...

(Meanwhile, I use high beam, when I remember switch and backup accessory light(s))

 

Get a hotel, a clean one, give us a call and we will join you...

Will tie you to the bed, take advantage of you/ have our way with you, and steal the bike...

 

I laugh in response to the message...

No reply, thinking about it...

 

But later realize, there's no way to return the call...

 

And not positive who was calling, given it was kind of an open call for company/ companionship

through other parties...

 

Not sure what to make of the message...

Depends upon whom it was, if I'd want that, or not...

 

Certainly, not the last part...   Got to keep my horse...

 

And I don't sleep well sharing a room...

Sound space for up to 4 people

Expensive: ~$150 with taxes, etc

 

Result: No company appeared, little sleep, wasted money... 

And time, angst. frustration, etc...

 

Saturday

 

Security

 

Hollywood type otherwise non descript guy in the elevator, athletic, going to work out,

could be a cop,

 

Basically says they were seedy, we didn't let them in, they went elsewhere...

 

OK, I'll possibly give them seedy, given where I may have met them, but a little judgemental,

IMO....

 

I never did try the pool myself there, or anywhere, even two other places along the route,

there and back...

 

 

Farmer's Market

 

Heart broken and more than a little bit horny, (ref Harry Chapin song(s) like in Circle2013 )

heading West again, lost out/ turned around of Columbus or OH similar town name...

 

Self Therapy

 

Was biking to something each day at home following DearBedBugs2013  as self therapy,

and now not biking, er, pedaling so maybe go explore? 

 

Getting a little exercise just carrying my own bags...

Leg over the bike, and back, etc...

 

Finding stuff in strange towns takes time, energy and patience... Oh, and internet....

So  battery life too, and signal....  Only 1 Bar?  SSSSLLLLOOOOWWWWW...

 

Farmer's Market

 

Oh, yea, heading previously...

,

Didn't have much of that, but stumbled upon a farmer's market and seemed cheaper than most

stuff I'd get elsewhere...

 

insert pictures here?

 

Amish Country

 

Like in Pennsylvania, East Of York PA (a Harley Davidson plant)

Ohio and other states have enclaves of Amish / Mennonite,

farmers who sell their goods the old fashion way, along the side of the roads,

and en mass other ways, leave the transit to the heathens,

just joking, but those who have gas powered stuff can travel to us,

instead of us doing that sinnery...

 

Interesting human powered vehicles, bicycles, scooter type things

and buggies at night, complete with slippery, stinky and potentially

dangerous to motorcycles and bikes deposits of bio mass along the

road/ roadsides...

 

 

Ohio Truck Stop

 

I've gotten off the beaten path/ interstate, and gotten to something odd,

a Truck Stop... 

 

On two wheels, I'm not generally welcome there, people think a motorcycle is odd,

small, slow, road kill, but the travel store has all sorts of hardware, flags, lights, parts, etc,

and gloves, knife to open the FM canalope (sp?), open package, cut cheese, bagels, etc...

 

Life In The Country

 

People hanging around the bike, looking curious, wanting something,

I'm generally entertaining, when I can be,

Seems like he's milling around and son out there eying the bike,

 

I talk with them for a while, said I'd put up a picture and maybe a grandmother or someone/something would help,

 

I'm probably not going this justice, I was just passing thru, not sure why you will encounter...

 

Best I can figure there are poor all over, I've been and continue to be, despite my adventures,

self prescribed alternative to a hospital visit, and probably at about the same cost,

get out get to see other things, and (in a alternating George Carlin voice (find link) )

patient,

tourist on Adventure...

 

But growing up in the Rust Belt or where ever, feeling stuck, having few, if any job prospects,

and the truck stop might be like the inner city bus depot...

 

More than one person said take their person and get them out of here, let them have a better life.

I'll sign a release, she's getting on my nerves, etc...

 

But without a known driving skill in carrying a passenger, and given the Stuff, questionable morals/ intentions

and goals, I'm pretty sure I'd end up in trouble, instead, so still a loner, something like

Pale Rider,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Rider 

really http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Plains_Drifter or something of that genera,

the movies all meld together after awhile, but with a bad sun burn....

 

RoadsTurnAtEdgeOfFields

 

Off the main roads, no interstate in sight, and going along roads that go to the edge of the farm fields and make a 15 mile per hour turn...

 

Have to find civilization and fast, wasting time, and not even enjoying it...

 

Blue Highways http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Highways

(book by William Least Heat Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon )

be damned,

I've got some place to be/ go, and want to make it there alive...

 

Flat

 

Talked to a few people about it, Sturgis, it's flat, dry. miles of miles of corn fields, and a long trip...

 

What's at Sturgis?  Bikers?  Kind of like Las Vegas, what happens there stays there,

right?

 

It's about sex?  Gambling? Girls (generic term)? /Women?  Drinking?  Nope, don't do that...

And my odds on other fronts are minimal...

 

Having driven through Kansas all day long decades ago, thinking of hospice and terminal illnesses,

I know The West is BIG,

 

Big States compared to the puny little ones along the North East...

Delaware, go through in a few hours,  Rhode Island, no problem...

 

Dry

 

The Rockies trap the moisture along the high elevations so it's dry for a lot of

the Eastern parts along the way...

 

Tumbleweed?  Seem to recall some, what does one do about that on a bike?

In a car it scratches, you try dodging it, avoid hitting others, whatever...

 

Rest Stops

 

OK, losing track of sequence here, it's too long to really remember, it becomes a blur,

I could either write about it, along the way, or go... So I went.  To hell with journalling my life,

nobody reads this anyway, and I'm off duty, so to speak, off the rails some say,

I'm having fun, or whatever this is called...

 

Stuck

 

Various unnamed people coming to talk to me along the way, seems I'm well known, but not sure how...

"You've Gone National", "Your show"  WTF???

 

Maybe I'm part of some Punked show, or Jackass episode?

I don't recall signing any such thing...

 

Maybe a protective order?  I've been sick/ suicidal/ "strong feelings"/ whatever,

so maybe they are keeping an eye on me?

 

They seem friendly enough, but intrusive...

 

Somewhat Judgemental too...

 

Cops

 

OK, there are a lot of bikers out here on the roads, some couple with a Harley and I pull up next to them,

while they are talking with others, I go inside to take a leak, find food/ snacks or something

 

Turns out he's got a vest on, both Harley logoed people, maybe they are sales?

Too well dressed to be anything else...

 

OK, second guy pulls up, they can't drive/ ride with me, better get going.

Other guy has a badge and gun somewhat hidden,

Come to think of it, there's a bullet proof vest under his other high visability vest...

 

Undercover cops watching bikers?  Bikers patrolling bikers? WTF?

 

insert picture here?

 

Risk legal problems?

Use no identifying info?

 

 

Sturgis

 

Next exit or so says Sturgis, I've not looked at a map, maybe this is the way to go?

Sturgis IL or Michigan or something, not the SD one, nor even a parallel way / alt route...

But got some variety for a while, if not potentially dreadfully/ deadly lost...

 

 

Gas Prices

 

Toll roads prices $4.25 or so, other/ most places less than $4 / gallon...

 

Hop Skip and Jump

 

Island to island.  Pull in to just see who is there...

I'm leap frogging with people I've seen along the way, might as well say Hi,

see who is stopped when.  Don't need anything but stretch my legs,

maybe check the clock...  Pacing myself...

 

Chicago

 

Toll roads getting to and through it.  And don't take plastic...

Didn't plan on this with cash, so what a pain.

Seems to be rush hour too, what bad timing...

 

I could have gone South instead and avoided this city, but that would have required more planning

than driving/ riding...

 

Information

 

Various people along the way do stuff that seem weird to me,

Some say stuff like

"People are taking pictures/video of you along the way..."

"People are following you"

 

It's like I have an entourage or something, but I'm going to get away from people,

so what gives?

 

JimmysBeef

 

Pull off the main roads along dinner time, and see a place, might be good,

not fast food chain, but not farmer's market either...

 

Heavy Italian accent.  Thinking Pat and Genos (sp?) in Philly...

Practice my Italian American Accent, but be respectful,

don't want to piss people off...

Ask about a place to stay...

 

Order Combo

Beef

Sausage

Ice, lemonade, crushed, ground, good stuff...

No W'it cheese option Wit , must not be a dairy state, that's Wisconsin...

 

Have people keeping an eye on me, particularly a cute younger woman cleaning up...

Wonder if I could stay with her?

I'm too bashful to ask, keep going, try to get to the other side of Chicago tonight...

Maybe camp

 

 

Toll Booth

 

Late in the day, feeling tired, need to find a place to stop

Ask for directions, giving me too much information, have them write it down,

line of people behind me, I'm talking more than paying and people getting pissed?

Let them wait?  Like DMV lines, it's part of the experience,..

 

State Park

 

No vacancies, we don't like your kind here, we know you,

Honda Something, go find it.  Trying to help?  Or hurt?

 

Tell the guy off.  Other guy there thinking Jeckyll (sp?) and Hyde like from

SpringBreak2013

 

Riding down by the river, trying to find it, Faces full of Bugs, looking for something, lots of misdirections,

turn around, tired, try again, maybe missed it, river park not feeling safe, not a camping one, people hanging around, guys in pickup truck eying me, pulled back around, get out of there, maybe a pickup/

drop off body place?

 

Camp guy said they don't like you they throw you in the river

Like with the fishes, or something

 

Rest Stop

 

After arguing with state employee at dusk/closing time? who needs to find an other career, get out of the state, to safety...

 

Wisconsin

 

Losing track of the days here, second day, end of day, getting towards Chicago and went further than I could looking for a place to stay, can't find one, even offered to pay in a park, but not wanted/ welcome/ discriminated against/ ridiculed?, so end up in a rest stop in another state, sleep on a park bench,

watching the bike, stuff out with me, more vending machine meal/snacks,

but have the farmer's market food to eat,

need to shut my eyes for a bit, so I don't drive while sleeping,

state police come by, waking me each time, I'm alert, except for being asleep...

 

Sunday

 

 

Frozen Dairy

 

Family run place again, but have more foods, and a seating area inside,

part of the high plains/ praire (really need to learn the terms)

 

Gas

 

Guy sticks a camera in my face, I say no, he continues,

maybe his buddies convince him later to not do it?

 

Autobahn

 

We could use an unlimited highway, and the open space out there,

while some said people live here, the density is so much less,

people could use unlimited speed and have more high speed businesses

along the way?

 

Formalize it, somehow...

People vary in speed, passing rules/ policy/ etiquite? (sp?)

Infrastructure?

Seasonal differences?

 

Ground concrete, rough, caught the tires, made handling difficult,

maybe something about the winter time and on turns,

or water? Don't know, but rough too, so look out,

not working for everyone, maybe why Harley's and other cruisers

have such big tires by comparison?

 

 

Sturgis

 

Hit the town, Rapid City, and Sturgis is nearby...

Follow some bikers on a side road and they go to a campsite,

I pull in next to them at registration, and find out about staying the night...

Pushed for more than one night, don't have but the $15 cash on me,

tolls and stuff, they take a check, but no, just no, don't have many with me,

etc...

 

Security

 

Tough guy posing as security or security posing as tough guy, basically will steal my stuff,

just paid for the place, no receipt / wrist strap nor proof I paid, the tuxedo t shirt kid

found the owner, who gave me a tour, and then one from the group I followed had some words

with me, don't like being followed, not one of them, why am I there, etc...

 

No refunds, likely, so just keep going and try to sleep anyway...

 

 

Hill Climbing

 

Up that ridge is more camping, go to the right of the bolder, and your bike can probably make it,

the guy(s) at the beer garden seem to think I can, and wait a minute I'll just put on some protective gear,

don't need it, says those drinking, but I do, and make it up the hill, probably too far left, where there are few if nobody else, probably someone else's land, he has people coming later...

 

Tent

 

Setup tent,  Find all the stuff I didn't pack, sleeping bag liners, etc...

Sweaty hot, dirty, don't want to go back down the ridge at night or ever really,

to the showers, and well just stink it all up, need to wash the sleeping bag then too,

not sure what to do about the pad, etc...

 

 

Storm

 

Some rain happening overnight, everything getting wet, the top put on,

and well ride it out, as not going anywheres...

 

Monday

 

 

Morning

 

Slow Start,, pushed a lot of miles to make it there on 3 days instead of 4,

while I'd thought maybe two, an Iron Butt, Iron Man 1000 miles in a day,

send something in first, prove it with receipts, and you're in?

 

Anyway, had some food, eat a little, decide not to wait around for the breakfast/

shower, etc... 

 

Bike Serviced

 

First order of business, make sure the horse gets fed?

Might take a while, saw a dealer on the way in, and successfully found it again in the AM...

 

Had the headlight problem, pushing it in didn't fix it, maybe the bulb burned out while messed with while powered on?

 

and maybe look at the clutch/ way too hard to pull in and release, maybe led the wrong way,

been having problems with it, don't want to be stuck somewheres...

 

Some chain noise started,

tire situation, back knobby running low, knobbies don't wear like regular tires and when knobby worn down, you don't have slicks, you're done, new tire

doing the tire replacement, they have to do the chain, adjustment to get it on...

Like a combo deal...

 

Talk with a couple on a BMW...

He's friendly she's cute but standoffish.  

They smoke so I go away, and also need to be out of the sun, burned badly and starting to be 10 am,

peak sun times again...

 

How the tread went down on the bike so easily,

to belts, on both of the Metzler tires? 

 

 

$420 with a tire change, look at the tires, nothing right, off name, no tread match, feeling the victim,

less than friendly, get a second opinion, from another customer, skip the tire, and chain stuff...

 

$106 or so and get out quickly something happening downtown I'm supposed to be at?

 

Sober

 

So like most MidWest or other towns , the hub of social activity is the bar/ diner,

but I don't drink, so why go there?  Find a place where that's not a problem,

and be annoyed by people I'm not like.  Just used to being around...

 

Drive Thru

 

Downtown Sturgis, have to see it, to believe it, that many bikes, a carny town really...

 

Here are others photos, Don't think I'm in it, but so many without slideshow, haven't checked...

http://www.sturgis.com/photos/index.php?dir=

 

People Near My Bike

 

Can't find a parking space nearby (unlike Daytona, park on the beach...)

Go outside and check the bike and people showing my bike, not me,

fold arms look annoyed, they turn around a leave...

 

I've had about enough of that...

 

Threats of losing my bike, to my person, property, family, security, emotional and otherwise

(not that stereotypical guys have more than two emotions, the other one is anger...) etc...

 

 

Cough

 

Started from the dry western air...

Could also have something to do with weeds, allergy, and the constant wind

from riding?

 

Rain

 

Started and forecast a bad one, riding out a road by the big saloons/concerts, and finding nothing

along 34 East or whatever of value, and just plain desert, turn around, and hear along the main road,

forecast, and people scattering, hang around a tent, park bench near a church, and

be told something was done to my bike, as he leaves, another mean person to deal with,

and no girls to speak of...  Well some drunk like ones, cute, and split up, one to an in town campsite

back behind the church ($30/ night)

 

Leaving

 

Spent three days riding to get there, no Black Crowes concert that was Sunday ,not Monday, my bad, and just a carnie type town event, nothing really to do, guessing I'm running low on money already, lower on social /. interpersonal skills, so I'm leaving...

 

Wyoming

 

Take a break early afternoon, go West old man, get out of the way/ out of town?

 

 

Haircut

 

Someone had told me to get a haircut, buy shoes, etc...

So might as well get around to it, better Therapy anyway...

This place had massage too, but claimed to be staffed during the daytime...

 

Rain

 

No hotel/ motel along the way, heavy rains, missed the first set, but second wave and continuing,

going east, people in the lobby of places, and she had called and nothing for a few towns over,

the town of Wall might have some, I keep going.

 

Lightly dressed woman at a bar closing said I can have her, some voice amongst the guys asking if I have protection, and well I'll keep going...

 

Rest Stop

 

Two older woman doing a humping like position near the video monitor and ask if they can come in, not sure what to say to that, late night not very busy,  I go in and use the hand dryers, all 4 or so, to try warming up/ drying off, to continue, even though next town might have a hotel/ motel, I'm about frozen/ sick, so try doing the best I can while there....

 

Tuesday

 

Lake Stop

 

People in disguises threatening to kill and well, there must be a law enforcement officer around somewhere, turns out there was, I get out of there, and someone probably gets arrested,  Law wants me in another state, when it happens, fine, when I understand all that was said, mostly verbally, and I'm gone....

 

Sparta

 

Something with bicycles,  A museum.

 

First Rails to Trails site.

Pay $4/ day for use

Trail is toll road???

Supports it, but other transit infrastructure is free...

 

Snowmobiles welcome...

 

Go back sometime when bicycling and pickup a t shirt or something bikey...

 

 

Farmer's Market

 

Wonder out the wrong way, and miss a scheduled/ told to pickup of illegal copies of my keys/ settlement?...

 

Maple syrup,jar, no candies, dried sugar, etc...

talk of the process, maybe take a picture

honey guy next to him, talkative, but honey has allergens

 

1/2 pint of blueberries $1.50

Amish butterscotch granola $3

 

skip the canalope too much stuff....

 

 

Bike and Board

 

Odd they would offer room and board, must stop in,

turns out to be skate board, and they do sewing, vacuum cleaners,

and a good old shop, in an odd combination I'd not seen,

talk bikes until wife shows up and back to work,

hit the road...

 

A&W

 

Stopped at one along the way out, closed at the time, used the parking lot bay for a short nap,near a hospital and find one on the way back that's open...

 

Wanted a mug/ jug, but no space, pick one up later?

 

(Maybe online?)

 

 

Toll Road Gas Threatened

 

Report it,

Wait for state trooper, been an hour, maybe security footage, no doesn't cover the islands,

not much help, but got a report in in case I'm killed anyway, can't do much about it,

part of the problem, not the solution....

 

Getting pretty weird, even for me....

 

Toll Booth

 

Drop dollar coin,  must consider an EZPass toll paying thingie sometime....

 

But sometimes fun to talk to people along the way...

 

 

Hotel

 

Knows all about me, shows me to an area where something probably illegal is going on,

I'm not staying, makes me sick...

Bath, Go to bed...

Past tired anyways...

 

Wednesday

 

Checkout, leave the lobby, pack and go...

 

 

Rain

 

Another downpour between Ohio and Pennsylvania,

and well I need to stop, can't find my phone, dropped it,

toll booth people alternating helpful, cute, to nasty, shouldn't be telling customers

stuff like that, hate like, discrimination against two wheels, no just me,

well, I'll complain...

 

Home

 

Wondering lost in western MD?  No call phone probably lost, no directions

40, 50, 70?  Greenbrier State Park?  Thought that was WV,

getting late, and come home to see if my stuff was sold, and notices on the door,

as threatened before I left, but nothing different that I can tell, even two hoodsies

smoking on the steps/ stoop...  Both known to me, but I'm dragging and

just want bath and bed, might even skip bath, for bed, then have to do all the wet laundry

(some was even clean!)....

 

Friday

 

Bike

 

Back to bicycling, need the exercise, the mood went down significantly during the week,

and back to some normalcy...

 

N.B. Probably why I bike...  Pumps it up...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZAqNNX4l5o

Queen's Bicycle Race video, *uncensored* Mature Themes

read nudity

 

 

Rent

 

Might want to pay that, it's late, I haven't been late in 3 years, talked out of the late fee, need to see what I have,even to sell, not my body obviously, to make rent...

 

 

Rest

 

After first short day back on a bicycle, Decline going out, have to do laundry and rest...

 

 

Finding Stuff

 

Things returned to me, or just finding them.  Grey bicycle gloves mysteriously reappeared in my bag...

Bumps on my hand, near the gloves, someone said I was infected, near a welding burn,

or the blisters from sunburn on right hand/ wrist, bumps on head, from wet helmet(s),

and boils on butt / saddle sores returning?

 

Other possibilities?

 

Worse for Wear

 

"None the worse for wear" is the phrase, but use it as I can...

bragging rights, don't do much good, 6 days riding and lots of money for 1 maybe 1.5 days there...

 

Remember the body painted/ tattooed girls riding naked on the back of bikes,

memorable!/ Priceless...

 

Plan it a lot better, if I ever go again.  Black Hills mountains has some nice places,

which I didn't see.

 

Ride out earlier, last week of previous month, decode on a place?

Pay ahead?  Budget better?

 

More sightseeing along the way, instead of rush to get there...

 

Wyoming

 

I visited the first rest stop West, hung out there for a while, ate some packed foods,

back and forth for water, bathroom, etc...

 

Alaska

 

Considered if my stuff were sold while I was away going to Alaska, but some said it was 4k miles

each way, and only two seasons late in this to start, August is really starting November where I am

and wet and cold, my rain gear I didn't even pack, much less heated gear, and warmer

stuff, caps, etc...

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

Got away, got there, saw a little, did less, and well, returned, alive despite the obstacles,

man made, mother nature imposed and otherwise presented themselves,

most would say problems of my own making, but not really....

Poor planning is bad, possibly dangerous, but over planning and I'd not have started,

 

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

What's your worse/ best, recent, interesting road trip experience?

 

What do you do for personal safety?

Protect belongings while traveling,

At home?

In general?

 

What do you think of bikers?

Dirty?

Poor?

Degenerate?

or better than that?

Doctors

Lawyers

etc

like the Harley image, of an expensive bike owner like a BMW or similar?

 

Expensive toy, or economical means of reliable transportation?

 

Dangerous?

or Learn what you can to do it well?  Like cars?  Trucks, boats, etc?

 

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  • do numbers, get details, if not too wet to read

 

20130811 Jerry

  • Jerry created this page to dump the week on paper/ online to sort out a lot of stuff, feelings, details, for better planning some other time, possibly some humor, attractions, whatever ...
  • Need to break up into days, Friday, Saturday Sunday, Monday , Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
  • Friday possibly geeky with GPS photos, and/ or Blue Highways type map?
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