Christna Lake BC

Taking a break at Christina Lake British Columbia

Cranbrook, BC.

Made it to Canada. Staying at Lazy Bear Lodge, they gave us sweet deal.

Camping Monday night

Photo of the best burger place in Montana and our camping spot Monday night

Monday

Good night's rest photo of the bighorns, pictograph State Park in Billings Montana, and Dean eating his burger and fries.

Sheriden

We got soaked today.  Stopped in Sheriden WY at a friends of Jack to dry out and stay the night.  Really tired today.  Catching up on my sleep, i hope.

Camping at Cris Campground in Spearfish SD

Rain stop at n Murdo SD

Jacks packing layout

Jack packing  layout

After a slow start this morning fixing wiring problems I finally made it to can of soda where I found Jack and Dean.

Testing Posting a Photo from Email.

Wednesday Night BS Riders Ride - Jun 13th, 2018.  Click on the photo to enlarge it.

After the monthly BS Rider club ride Tuesday evening to Bob's in LeMars, Chuck picked me up at my place in his new Rav 4 and hauled me over to his garage to pick up the Turbo.  On the way home I stopped at the Sioux City Morningside Steak House (Miles) after seeing Loyd and Tom had vehicles parked there.  Grabbed a photo of Tom's Kawi with the Turbo.  Only thing missing is Giganta Van which was a further to the left.

Turbo has new rubber on it and I cleaned the wheels Mother's metal cleaner.  Still need to replace the tail piece (I have one that is not faded out) and get the red decal on the right of fairing replaced.  Otherwise the Turbo is starting to look better.  Its running good now, but tank needs to be retreated and sealed.

Kawi 750 and the Turbo at Morningside Steak House (Miles)

New Ride - a Hon (no da)

My newest ride, a Hon (no da in the name).  American (Iowa HQ) made.  After about 20 years on the old one, I got a new office chair.  New chair has about 12 separate controls and is much more comfortable.  It's like having a custom Russell Day Long seat added to your motorcycle.  Old chair is still fine, just dirty and plastic arm rests are delaminating.  

Too Much Rain

Its been raining so much since the beginning of May that I haven't be able to get much of my scouting done for the GLMC Dual Sport Rally next weekend.  Work has been so crazy busy that most of my free time seems to be spent mowing my stupid yard. Now the rain is going to time-suck me some more because our cherry tree went bonkers again this year... that there folks (below) is a lot of cherry mojitos...  which is going to seriously eat into my riding time.

That is a lot of mojitos:

Interesting Weather Link

A different way of looking at (visualizing) the weather: For Sioux City (I grabbed the coordinates for where I live and stuck them into the URL): http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-96.362811,42.484369,3000 ​You can scroll in/out with your mouse wheel, and click down and move mouse to change your position. Click on earth button to change settings. http://earth.nullschool.net/about.html​

Tom Magliozzi Passing....

Life sometimes throws us curves and the last few weeks have not been an exceptions to that rule.  First with the passing of my Aunt, then followed by my friend and fellow rider Al (photos), and then yesterday Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk has passed.  While Tom was not a close friend like Al or a relative like my Aunt, I have been listening to Car Talk since the '80's whenever I have had the chance.  I really enjoyed listening to Tom and Ray's weekly banter over the years.  The show often reminded me of discussions with my brothers, my relationship with my wife, and I sometimes I even learned a bit about the workings of the automobile.  The last couple of years I have been listening to show podcasts using PocketCaster when traveling by motorcycle or car, when out in the backyard grilling or working in the garage.  I think mixing the show in with so many pleasant activities gave me an even greater appreciation of the show, plus with the podcasts I rarely had to miss a show.

http://www.cartalk.com/blogs/staff-blog/tom-magliozzi-1937-2014

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