Take cheer, Lancer.    We rode together as fast and as far and for as long as we could up in them thar purty mountains.  

And we will get to see you in the fall for the fall scoot & shoot at WD's place so we won't forget what you look like.

Something like that.  I generally just count up the various trips because we generally had something going both summer and fall for the past 3 years.

Counting trips, we are well over 12 trips now.   The small ones were the best, imho, with you me and MM jest a going up & doing it.

My mother in law had a birthday party this past Saturday and she insisted everybody watch "The Carolina Traveller goes to the Dragon" that she had taped, a 10 minute episode about Deals Gap and how dangerous it was.   Did you know that over 50 non-fatal injuries take place in each of the summer months, with an average of a fatality a month and it is the rated most dangerous road in the lower 48 states?

BAD IDEA, that -- all the old hens started clucking about how I was going to get hurt going up there with all those hundreds of crazy motorcycle people.   I set them straight on that topic, I was the one that the "they" needed to be afraid of, not the other way around.

My daughter got it and gave me the quiet grin, my wife has always known it but she didn't like me saying it out loud in front of the hens.

MMRanch wrote on 06/10/13 at 08:44:40:


What's a matter MM......The black leather chaps start "chapping" about the 16th hour?

Might be a bit of a coordinating nightmare....but maybe we could meet you somewhere and ride you in.

I do, its a small hex tent two person...not much on space but at least two folks can lay down in it....however two folks + gear might be a tight fit.

UPDATE:

I have had 2 incredeibly busy days at work......a Council meeting last night and I will have a very intense Planning and Zoning meeting tonight.  I was able to get the bike loaded up and get all my things gathered together last night after I got home from the meeting.  This afternoon I will go home and attach the trailer and load everything up, and start my drive right after the meeting.  I should be able to get 2-3 hours of driving in tonight.  I can sleep in my trailer with my bike and start out again tomorrow morning.  I should have no trouble making the 1:00 arrival time.  I will be so keyed up after this Planning Meeting I won't be able to go to sleep for a while anyhow.....I might as well be driving.

I imagine I will be "offline" sometime around 3 this afternoon.  See you all soon.  This is what my rig looks like.....if you see me running around lost you can flag me down!

I called them, they said OK, no problem.

verslagen1 wrote on 06/11/13 at 08:12:03:


The trailer is made by Homesteader and is a Challenger model.  It is 48" tall, 40" wide and 8' long inside.  I bought it used from a fellow that used it to haul show rabbits all over the country.  He installed the windows so he could keep the rabbits cool.  It was funny as everytime he got a trophy showing his rabbits he would put a little bunny sticker on the side of the trailer.....It looked like I had hundreds of "bunny kills" when I bought the trailer.  I took the spring axle off and put a rubber torsion axle on it so I could lower the trailer to work well with the Vibe.  It is a great trailer and tows well behind the Vibe....my mileage drops from 32mpg to about 25 when I tow.

http://homesteadertrailer.info/challenger-enclosed-cargo-trailers/