Yeah...it's been quiet for a couple days... Gave Slick a bath yesterday in prep top Sell her off... So, maybe I'll pull the Propane bottles and get 'em filled up... that should be good for some excitement... eh?
It's been decided to sell the '01 V Star. Heidi decided she prefers sittin' back seat to ridin' her own... Makes no sense to haul that 500 lbs around, not to mention the wear an' tear, riding back there in the dust and dirt, if it's not gonna get rode, so we'll send her to a new home.
Put a lot of miles on that bike... she'll be needin' a new clutch... but her tires are strong! ... so I'm hopeful somebody'll come along that wants a good Star motorcycle, at a decent price... and then I'll go to remodeling the motorcycle carrier into something else! :o) since that long legged red head (Yamaha Star Raider) is too big a gal to sit back there :o)
Actually I never had any worries 'bout a 500 lb bike on the tail of the fiver... all the numbers were well within "capacaties"... buuuuuut... 750 lbs pushes up close enough to that line... that I juuuuuuuuust can't get comfortable with the idea... so....
Then there's that idea that John Q and Mark 'N Bobbie got me afflicted with... "Small is Good"...
I suppose that 9,000 miles of two wheels, runnin' the Alcan in August had its part too. But, the consequence is still the same... I'm not likely to do a whole lot more "remodeling" of this rig... when the "Itch" is growing... to get smaller.
... yup... that's me... never static.. always Lookin' up at the Horizon... always wonderin' "What if? Maybe I could...?"... always schemin'... Life in the West! :o)
Anyhoo...
This is the first December, in quite a good number of years, I've found myself wanderin' around in shirt sleeves. 74 or so in the valley yesterday... back in Colorady... I think it was 50 somethin'... 'course, with the wind whistlin' at nine-oh... that feels like 29!
Feels kind of odd. Guess when you're used to loadin' up on long johns, sweaters, insulated vests, heavy coveralls and thick gloves, this time of year... it takes a lil' acclimatin' to get used to NOT!
The Eagle is gonna set here on its roost in Glendale, for another 10 days or so... and then quite a few more! We'll leave it here, for our bob-tail run back to Denver for Christmas with the kids... and then come back and hitch up, just after the first of the year...
Plans are, for now anyway, to hit the Desert at Quartzite for a week in mid January... then I'm thinkin' there's some lakes over east... maybe some high desert down south a bit... though... what with all the "stuff" goin' on that they keep off the news... I'll have to do a little investigatin' before I decide to go very far into that area.
I've been advised that I "might not want to boondock down there"...
You know, there's something wrong there... What the hell?
I mean... when a National Park is largely closed to the American People... I mean locked up, as in; you're not allowed in there... because of the "Invasion" of illegals and drug runners through there... (Organ Pipe National Park) Makes a fella wonder some about the feds jumpin' on Arizona for trying to protect its own citizens... who's side are They on anyway? Where the heck is the Fed. Govt. loyalty settin'?
Would seem they're more interested in protecting the ability of some folks to ignore and break the law...than... the safety and security of the American People... curious ain't it?
Oh well... you knew I didn't have much respect for anything that describes itself with the word politician anyway...
It's just... I can't say that I ever thought part of my decisions about where I'd set a winter camp would be made wonderin' 'bout where it would be "Safe" from an armed foreign invasion... That's just not a concern I ever thought I'd have...
Well... if I'm to get on the news... with some story about a "Big Bang"... guess I better get to unhookin' those propane bottles! ;o) ... you might want to stay inside for a little while? Like Sharlotte said... there's only one guy who could turn an oil change... into a novel... and this here... is PROPANE... HooYa! :o)
It's a new world out there kids!
Scrubbin' Motorcycles and playin' with gas on the Arizona Desert
Brian
A broken down Ol' Cowboy goin' RV Boondocking ...
...and Yondering, to the beat of a different Biker Cowboy Drummer
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Brian, FYI, I was shopping in a marine store the other day and struck up a conversation with the sales clerk, learned he was a5th wheeler, short story... he works 15 hours a week in an RV park in exchange for a free site... Not a bad deal... This would keep your costs down... ernie
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