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I arrived in Albuquerque so early I decided to head all the way up here to Taos. I was lucky to get a room, cause they are booked tonight. The weather was great, although my temp said it was 98 in Albuquerque at about 2pm. Fueled up on top of 9 mile hill, then got caught in traffic around the I-25 I-40 interchange. Ran into a lot of on & off construction through Arizona and New Mexico on I-40. Nothing serious to hold anyone up though.

Can't believe how everything has changed. Espinola and Taos is huge compared to how I remember it. Albuquerque and Santa Fe seem much larger also. Now I wish I would have trailered my bike so my wife would have come. She would have loved all of the cool shopping. Perhaps next time! She always backs out of riding when it turns into reality.

I understand there is a BMW group due in tomorrow also. There were a bunch of Harley riders here when I arrived. The Kachina Lodge is nice, us FJR folks are being grouped together as we are taking over two entire areas of rooms.

Pinhead shows up tomorrow and I will ride out with him to meet up with his wife Kyndall as she starts out towards Taos on Thursday morning. I did see a bunch of LEO out and about with radar, so ride wisely. But then there are always plenty of youngsters to nab on there Sport Bikes pulling wheelies from red lights.

 
Did you take the Santa Fe bypass, or did your GPS even know it existed? Mine tries to route me through Cerillos Road...It thinks that's faster.

 
Dan, thanks for the heads up on the Kachina Lodge being booked up Tuesday. My Gal Donna cannot make this trip, ex-smoker and her lungs are acting up, REAL BUMMER; she does not want to take a chance with her health at the 7K' elevation of Taos. It's 1AM and I am out in the garage, quietly packing up Miss Lucy Liu; trying not to wake up my boy. I have to drop Son Seth off at Junior High at 9AM and as soon as I do, I will jump on the super slab and beeline it to Taos. HotRodZilla, I know all about the Santa Fe bypass: BECAUSE I CAN READ A FECKING MAP, NOT A GOD DAMN GPS. Verdad!

Count me in on Thursday mornings ride North with pinhead to intercept Kyndall. Does Dave ride any faster these days? Caramba, he's as fecking slow on his FJR as SkooterG, Brian, dj bill and Fairlaner!

Dan, I'll call you from the road around Noon today; just checking in! I'll call Kachina Lodge at 8AM to secure a room for tonight. Hasta lluego mi Amigo y Suerte, Papa Chuy Medina "El Burrito Ballerina"

 
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Dan, thanks for the heads up on the Kachina Lodge being booked up Tuesday. My Gal Donna cannot make this trip, ex-smoker and her lungs are acting up, REAL BUMMER; she does not want to take a chance with her health at the 7K' elevation of Taos. It's 1AM and I am out in the garage, quietly packing up Miss Lucy Liu; trying not to wake up my boy. I have to drop Son Seth off at Junior High at 9AM and as soon as I do, I will jump on the super slab and beeline it to Taos. HotRodZilla, I know all about the Santa Fe bypass: BECAUSE I CAN READ A FECKING MAP, NOT A GOD DAMN GPS. Verdad!
Count me in on Thursday mornings ride North with pinhead to intercept Kyndall. Does Dave ride any faster these days? Caramba, he's as fecking slow on his FJR as SkooterG, Brian, dj bill and Fairlaner!

Dan, I'll call you from the road around Noon today; just checking in! I'll call Kachina Lodge at 8AM to secure a room for tonight. Hasta lluego mi Amigo y Suerte, Papa Chuy Medina "El Burrito Ballerina"
Have a safe trip, El beemerdog.

 
Dan, thanks for the heads up on the Kachina Lodge being booked up Tuesday. My Gal Donna cannot make this trip, ex-smoker and her lungs are acting up, REAL BUMMER; she does not want to take a chance with her health at the 7K' elevation of Taos. It's 1AM and I am out in the garage, quietly packing up Miss Lucy Liu; trying not to wake up my boy. I have to drop Son Seth off at Junior High at 9AM and as soon as I do, I will jump on the super slab and beeline it to Taos. HotRodZilla, I know all about the Santa Fe bypass: BECAUSE I CAN READ A FECKING MAP, NOT A GOD DAMN GPS. Verdad!
Count me in on Thursday mornings ride North with pinhead to intercept Kyndall. Does Dave ride any faster these days? Caramba, he's as fecking slow on his FJR as SkooterG, Brian, dj bill and Fairlaner!

Dan, I'll call you from the road around Noon today; just checking in! I'll call Kachina Lodge at 8AM to secure a room for tonight. Hasta lluego mi Amigo y Suerte, Papa Chuy Medina "El Burrito Ballerina"
Have a safe trip, El beemerdog.
Muchas gracias, Mick. What is it with we Irish being up in the middle of the night; ShinyPartsUp is awake too. Oh, I remember, we all got up at 1:30AM to have another shot of Bushmill's or Jameson!!!

 
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@ cracker barrel for breakfast, see you people in 500 miles
Sitting in my underwear at my computer, posting on the FJR Forum; see you around 1900 hours at the Kachina Lodge, sin_loki!

Since ShinyPartsUp is going to demand to know, I'm wearing my tiger stripe speedo undies; his very favorite ones!!! jes' sayin'

 
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Dan, thanks for the heads up on the Kachina Lodge being booked up Tuesday. My Gal Donna cannot make this trip, ex-smoker and her lungs are acting up, REAL BUMMER; she does not want to take a chance with her health at the 7K' elevation of Taos. It's 1AM and I am out in the garage, quietly packing up Miss Lucy Liu; trying not to wake up my boy. I have to drop Son Seth off at Junior High at 9AM and as soon as I do, I will jump on the super slab and beeline it to Taos. HotRodZilla, I know all about the Santa Fe bypass: BECAUSE I CAN READ A FECKING MAP, NOT A GOD DAMN GPS. Verdad!
Count me in on Thursday mornings ride North with pinhead to intercept Kyndall. Does Dave ride any faster these days? Caramba, he's as fecking slow on his FJR as SkooterG, Brian, dj bill and Fairlaner!

Dan, I'll call you from the road around Noon today; just checking in! I'll call Kachina Lodge at 8AM to secure a room for tonight. Hasta lluego mi Amigo y Suerte, Papa Chuy Medina "El Burrito Ballerina"
Have a safe trip, El beemerdog.
Muchas gracias, Mick. What is it with we Irish being up in the middle of the night; ShinyPartsUp is awake too. Oh, I remember, we all got up at 1:30AM to have another shot of Bushmill's or Jameson!!!


@ cracker barrel for breakfast, see you people in 500 miles
Sitting in my underwear at my computer, posting on the FJR Forum; see you around 1900 hours at the Kachina Lodge, sin_loki!

Since ShinyPartsUp is going to demand to know, I'm wearing my tiger stripe speedo undies; his very favorite ones!!! jes' sayin'
Ok, with that last statement, I'm now not sure if everyone is up in the wee hours partly because of the hamburger picture SPU posted, or now the visualization of BeemerDon in his underwear. Either sight could easily cause sleep apnea!

 
Here it is 16:22 Taos time and a Pinhead pulled in about 15 minutes ago. Finally, it beverage time. As soon as he gets into his room and unloads his bike, we're off to a local pub called Eskes berwery.

It's 5 o'clock somewhere!! :fans: :fans: Must be Here! :drinks: :drinks:

 
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