Pat L
TwoWheelExplorer
Here begins the tale of my family vacation to San Diego. My wife and I and two kids are going there for 2 weeks' vacation. Our plan was to fly, but fares just spiked so we decided to drive. Yesterday, plans took a rapid turn when my wife texted me and asked if I wanted to ride the FJR while she drives the car and our two kids. Hmmm, let me think about that for just a .. :yahoo:
It's interesting prepping for a 3k+ mile trip in a day. Basically, I finished up mounting the N-Line dash I bought from ahchiu that he dropped by my work and we shot the breeze; picked up a PCA rack and mounting plate from allrider (who showed up to my work to deliver it before I got there, and had the rack mounted on my bike by the time we agreed to meet, so we shot the breeze); switched back to the bigger Rapid Transit tankbag; later this afternoon I'll drop by the DMV to switch over bike title from FJRONAMISSION to myself and get WA plates; checked tire pressures; and head south.
I'll be tracking with the car, so probably not a ton of fun side roads, but it beats sitting in an econocar for a few days. I'll post words and photos here along the way.
Oh yeah, Seattle is having November-ish rain storms and thunder today. I got soaked on my ride to work. allrider asked me if I had a cooling vest for the trip, and it took my brain a while to register the possibility that I'll be sweating it out this time tomorrow.
Spotwalla will be at https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=501050089a3507360. I might switch it to being two trips - one down, one back. Dunno yet.
Oh, yeah. Here's me with my wife on Wed night, our 19th anniversary. She wanted to ride to an Irish pub to celebrate.
It's interesting prepping for a 3k+ mile trip in a day. Basically, I finished up mounting the N-Line dash I bought from ahchiu that he dropped by my work and we shot the breeze; picked up a PCA rack and mounting plate from allrider (who showed up to my work to deliver it before I got there, and had the rack mounted on my bike by the time we agreed to meet, so we shot the breeze); switched back to the bigger Rapid Transit tankbag; later this afternoon I'll drop by the DMV to switch over bike title from FJRONAMISSION to myself and get WA plates; checked tire pressures; and head south.
I'll be tracking with the car, so probably not a ton of fun side roads, but it beats sitting in an econocar for a few days. I'll post words and photos here along the way.
Oh yeah, Seattle is having November-ish rain storms and thunder today. I got soaked on my ride to work. allrider asked me if I had a cooling vest for the trip, and it took my brain a while to register the possibility that I'll be sweating it out this time tomorrow.
Spotwalla will be at https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=501050089a3507360. I might switch it to being two trips - one down, one back. Dunno yet.
Oh, yeah. Here's me with my wife on Wed night, our 19th anniversary. She wanted to ride to an Irish pub to celebrate.
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