Just consider your air horn "sacrificial material"...
Have a great trip. :clapping:
yep, agree, that's it
thanx much
will check back in on Tue, gawd willin'
Mike "Cherohala here I come" in Nawlins'
great Dragon trip...home today (Mon) at 7:30pm safe and sound after 1660 miles
gunna rest and have AIW massage my sore butt and do trip laundry and pack again to head out Wed to SFO at o'dark thirty
thanx for all your support, thoughts, and a prayer or two. There were one or two curves that your prayers worked !!!
and the semi on the 15mph zig/zag along the Ocoee River today may have touched the lead Wing's Leezure Lite pop up camper trailer, as the truck crossed the double yellow with the dually of the trailer totally over. He did "stay right, stay alive" and I was the bitcher and moaner to all the whole trip to mantra that and had to save a life or two. Also, to constantly check mirrors and stay away from vehicles along side, especially coming from the rear and going through one's blind spot.
Oh, air horn saved me twice as grandma and grandpa merged onto the highway from my right and was heading to the right lane with me in it. I looked them in the eye through their door's window with the horn blaring and their head snapped to the left and looked me in the eye with mouth open, kickin' back into the on-ramp lane as I rocketed ahead.
Once, I had no left lane to go into with pickup to my right and was at the mercy of physics of acceration away while blarring the horn and hoping, and they did stay and not come to their left at me with their driver's door. Other time, horn blaring and me glaring at them, then glance to left mirror, both flat one and stuck on blind spot mirror indicated left lane clear, so I took it while accelerating. Stopping or braking would have been a mistake, as that's what they did at the sound of the horn.
99.9% of the trip was perfect, perfect weather, good food, good accomodations at
Hunt's Motorcycle Lodge/Campground for dirt cheap price at the foot of the Cherohala on the west side. I'll be back, believe me.
It's a good trip when ya or anyone else doesn't test out their sliders or crash bars.
I did get a warning from TN HP on 129 at the north end along side the lake doing 60 in a 40. I'm glad Jeff got caught behind traffic and I was waiting for him, because just a few minutes before, ahhhhh, we were quite spirited in that stretch when he was chasing me on his Black Beauty '08. Got to luv different owners/riders of Feejers...his was pristine at all times with all stops the polish and diaper comes out. Mine was, ahhhhhh, not.
SFO, here I come, gawd willin' again.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Mike "a '09 Dragon Slayer" in Nawlins'
