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I am stuck in Steamboat Springs Co. No way I am going to get back in time to make Cedarvale:(Delrod, I need to pay you for those shirts..pm me man...:)
Rode there in the rain all the way Sat morning. Sun came out Sat afternoon and had a good ride through the Kansas hill country to dry out the gear. Saturday night storms came back, tent leaked, gear got soaked from the inside out. Rain clouds chased me all the way home. Learned I can go at least 25 miles on low fuel light and the bike started shifting badly on the way home but that'll be for a different thread.
Had a good time despite the weather and the hush puppies were worth the effort, and I got a t-shirt.
Made it back to Enid. Heading to Cedarvale in the morning...whoo hoo!!!
A few photos from in and around Cedar Vale this weekend...
Thought I would bump this up..not sure how to merge it with the other threads! lol
Great shots. I'm impressed that you got the owl!
Here is an update from the Riding Dutchman.After landing at LAX, where I was greeted by jdgretz and taken to his home to meet the family and then out for an Italian dinner, I got to the AirBnB I found nearby and slept like a baby until the next morning around 8. JD picked me up and I got the bags strapped on the bike. We rode a mountain road to Palmdale together, had lunch and then said goodbye, as he was turning around to get back home and I continued to Joshua Tree Village, where I stayed in a nice little motel. The next day I toured around Joshua Tree park and spent the rest of the day checking out this small village and doing much of nothing.After 2 nights in the motel I took to the road again for a long stage that took me through a tiny place called Paradise, then I went beyond Hope and took my Guzzi straight through Congress on my way to Jerome, a lovely artist's village in the mountains high above Sedona. I passed around Sedona as it was already getting late and I have been in that tourist town before. I was greeted with my host for the next two nights in Southern Flagstaff. The next day was spent without any riding at all, but with a lot of nice talks and playing guitar together with my host.Then it was time to move on and I rode another long stretch to Silver City. The ride there was beautiful, with long sweepers through gorgeous scenery. In Silver City I has another AirBnB booked and this turned out to be a lovely place to spend two nights. My hostess even took me to a hot spring in the mountains and we spent a lot of time taling about Life, the Universe and Everything. Again, there was a guitar on the premises, so I could practice a little more. And yesterday I arrived here in Albuquerque, where I am staying in a friend's house. The ride from Silver City was not as pleasant as the stages before, because of the strong head winds, which made the riding harder and the noise of the wind deafening.Today was another day of resting and doing some work on the computer, just like tomorrow. I am planning to leave for Clayton, New Mexico on Thursday and then ride the last section to Cedar Vale on Friday. The weather forecast is not particularly good, so I am keeping an eye on it and might decide to postpone my arrival in Cedar Vale by a day if conditions are really going to suck. The road is going to be mostly straight and boring and I do not want to make the experience worse than it needs to be. But I will be getting to Cedar Vale in any case, as I need to hand my bike over to StormTruck before he drops me at Wichita airport on Sunday.So far this has been a nice trip and I am looking forward to meeting a bunch of Guzzi riders at Cedar Vale. See you at the end of the week.Jang (4ever)
I will wear the Cedar Vale NAR T-shirt to Dutch Guzzi events with pride.Ciao4everJang