Forum: Ride reports
Yesterday, 05:55 PM
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Hills for Hobbits:
Last night after eating I...
Hills for Hobbits:
Last night after eating I came back and put on the swim suit and headed down to the pool for a bit of a float. * I thought and did some aggressive stretching, and tried to avoid...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-22-2013, 05:40 PM
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Danger Will Robinson:
The day seduced me and...
Danger Will Robinson:
The day seduced me and then left me for another.
I am not exactly sure what that means, but maybe I will figure it out.
I got up at he usual time, around 6 am. *I knew...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-21-2013, 04:24 PM
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The Long Nonwinding Road:
I guess today's...
The Long Nonwinding Road:
I guess today's theme is roads that run straight forever and hypothermia.
The room last night was really dingy and depressing, and the restaurant was run by mentally...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-20-2013, 06:56 PM
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Unstuck in Time:
Unless I have become...
Unstuck in Time:
Unless I have become unstuck in time, tomorrow is the 21st day of this trip. * I just wandered up the street in Chinook, Montana, to a lonely pharmacy to get some triple...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-18-2013, 07:21 PM
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Pacifica:
I woke up in the Best Western Plus...
Pacifica:
I woke up in the Best Western Plus at around 7. *I slept in. * This in has a big garden courtyard with a truly massive koi pond and you could hear the frogs that presumably were imported...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-17-2013, 10:24 PM
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Wrists
Note: Hours and hours of low-speed twisties puts a serious hurting on the wrists. The last two fingers on my right hand were pretty numb for a long while after that ride.
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Forum: Ride reports
05-17-2013, 10:22 PM
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Past, Present, Future.
Today seems one of...
Past, Present, Future.
Today seems one of the hardest days of the trip. *How can that be when I rode through a lightning storm in N'Orleans. *I guess it was the 11.5 hours in the seat. * It went a...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-16-2013, 09:39 PM
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Ok Don't Sell Me Gas
Ok, Don't Sell me Gas.
I woke up at around the usual time in the Atomic Inn at Beatty. * They have a really awesome picture of a nuclear test in the office. * I guess Trinity must have been around...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-15-2013, 09:45 PM
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Crater
I have been at this for two weeks and a day and am nearing the 6000 mile mark. *The days are starting to run together and I can barely remember what was unique from day today. *Without writing it...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-14-2013, 06:09 PM
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Plague
Plague:
My initial intent was to ride 600 miles today. * I woke early and left with the sun, but I also left with a virus. *I came out of sleep with sore throat. * Sometimes these things go away...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-13-2013, 06:52 PM
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Out of Gas.
Out of Gas.
As I sit here in Pecos Texas, irritated that I cannot have a marguerita, because the restaurant attached to probably the only available room in Pecos, I await wings and wonder idly...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-12-2013, 02:12 PM
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My Birthday
My Birthday.
No, it is not my birthday. * The title of this one comes from remembering our wanders Jackson square in New Orleans last night after eating at Sylvain restaurant. *There was this...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-10-2013, 08:00 PM
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Yeah, I did intend to have BMW 441 put one of...
Yeah, I did intend to have BMW 441 put one of these on, but they forgot. My wrist has been doing better, so I wonder if I just ragged the tendon out weight lifting at the W. I do not think that...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-10-2013, 07:55 PM
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Thunder and Lightning
Thunder and Lightning.
We woke up early, and knew we would have an extra hour because of the time change, but we still did not know if we would aim for getting all the way to New Orleans or not....
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Forum: Ride reports
05-09-2013, 06:49 PM
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Bug Storm
Bug Storm.
We got a bit of a late start and left at 8:30. * Our intent was to try to get to *Appalachacola or there about. * I thought it was about 400 miles but we actually ended up riding about...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-08-2013, 06:12 PM
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old photos
Catching up on old photos:
Here I am departing over a week ago:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww315/dougq/5a148efe5378e7b9ad629a54d5c39443_zpsd219bec4.jpg
Our town can kick the shit out...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-08-2013, 05:52 PM
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Swamp
Swamp.
We decided not to try to get a super-early start since we had arrived in Key West so late. * *After dinner we had wandered around a bit and got ice cream, but we wanted to have breakfast...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-08-2013, 05:49 AM
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Sunset key west
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww315/dougq/ebaf87bab2bf8a32a7ec72b7e196d588_zps5786138a.jpg
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Forum: Ride reports
05-07-2013, 08:25 PM
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Key West
The ride to Key West.
After lucnh and a swim in the pool we called the BMW 441 shop to get an ETA, *They said they would be done between 1:30 and 2:00 so we got a cap to carry me and my crap and...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-07-2013, 07:50 AM
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May 7:
We are waiting around to hear from...
May 7:
We are waiting around to hear from the BMW shop about my motorcycle. * They needed to overnight the chain and sprocket, so we have no real idea when those willl come in, and the shop was...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-07-2013, 06:09 AM
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Helmets
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww315/dougq/7233c45d543330e94a277c029a17bfef_zps1c945439.jpg
More later when i get a wifi connection.
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Forum: Ride reports
05-06-2013, 08:28 AM
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We had dinner last night with some freinds who...
We had dinner last night with some freinds who raid with me in WOW. * We had fun.
Took my bike in to the BMW shop. *They need to overnight a chain and a sprocket, so we are trapped in the hell of...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-05-2013, 01:35 PM
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FMFDOC and Timbercat, thanks for reading and...
FMFDOC and Timbercat, thanks for reading and commenting. FotoTEX, yeah I probably should not break balls about the Smokies. They were beautiful, and even the Rockies in Denver are kind of wimpy...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-05-2013, 10:06 AM
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waiting around to die
May 5, otherwise known as the fifth of May. *I wake up at 5:45 am and decide it makes sense to get up and get as many miles behind me before the freeway gears up into full death dealing capacity. *I...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-04-2013, 05:56 PM
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wow, just wow
Wow, just wow.
I will try to refrain some from the typical jackassery. *This was a different kind of day, and I am not so much in the mood.
I did not really have time to muse on crap the way I...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-03-2013, 05:39 PM
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In Which Nothing Yet Happens to the Chain.
In Which Nothing Yet Happens to the Chain.
Wow was that just one day? * Time seems to be dilating the way it did when I was taking off on a convertible ride on a sunny September 11* *in 2001. *I...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-02-2013, 07:06 PM
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Fun?
Fun:
People keep telling me they hope I have fun. *I kind of doubt this wll be fun, ever. *What is more I am not sure I care. * If I wanted fun I would have someone oil me up and toss me in a tub...
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05-02-2013, 06:37 PM
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Forum: Ride reports
05-02-2013, 06:32 PM
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Not so bad.
Day 2. *Not so bad:
Ok, it is day three. *But the first day was an emergency escape, and I only went 300 miles, so I don't really want to count it. * It's like a leap day. *Ok?
Oh, sorry for...
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Forum: Ride reports
05-01-2013, 08:47 PM
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Forum: Ride reports
05-01-2013, 08:04 PM
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Brutal
Kind of a brutal day. *I woke up in Kansas. * I could not make myself sleep past 6:30. * I knew I needed to go even though I had read until about 11:30. *Things got off to a bad start. *It was 43...
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Forum: Ride reports
04-30-2013, 06:49 PM
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Forum: Americas
04-30-2013, 06:46 PM
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Forum: Ride reports
04-30-2013, 06:44 PM
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Lower 48
I am finally on the road. *I started the trip early, because there is a storm rolling into Colorado, and since I have to be in Fort Lauderdale in a few days I did not want to gett delayed. * There...
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Forum: Americas
04-29-2013, 12:04 PM
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I am thinking of leaving early. My intention...
I am thinking of leaving early. My intention has been to go Wednesday morning, but it is calling for 3-5 inches of snow on Tuesday night. If I can get south of Limon, it will be much warmer with...
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Forum: Americas
04-25-2013, 08:30 PM
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One piece of good news. BMW agreed to give me...
One piece of good news. BMW agreed to give me the fuel pump and electronics and the labor to install it for free. They previously gave me a generator free, but not the labor. They did this,...
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Forum: Americas
04-25-2013, 09:25 AM
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It's always something
Sigh. Earlier this week I started having big attacks of dizziness at night when getting up and going back to bed. Odd, but I planned to just blow it off. But I went in to do weight lifting this...
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Forum: Americas
04-21-2013, 09:09 PM
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I finished readying Lori's bike for shipping...
I finished readying Lori's bike for shipping tonight. I cannot find the spare key. I am not sure what to do about that. I guess I will just hope we don't need it. It is funny that we have to...
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Forum: Americas
04-19-2013, 09:44 PM
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fuel
It turns out the fuel pump and it's electronics are twitchy. They have apparently seen it before. I am fortunate it failed last week rather than on the road. I am going to replace it, but they...
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Forum: Americas
04-18-2013, 08:27 PM
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