Why or Why?
I am not sure why I decided to do this, it must be the weather! I have had 3 people in the last 72 hours request a blog of my pathetic life and feeble travels, I am not sure why. After given it a few seconds of thought, as with most decisions in life. I figured why not, what to loose, what to gain….why not. As I hope you will find out this is a blog from a pair of avid travelers, myself, Paul aka drbike and my faithful sidekick and last born Jo.
ON TO THE BLOG
As many of you know Jo and I are getting ready for a long semi planned ride around the outer edges of the continent. This would be a feat by bicycle, but this is going to be by motorcycle. Specifically we are riding a 1150 GS we got last summer. She is affectionately called Miss Piggy, she is rather fat in the hips but we do love her.
On last weeks ride with DSBC the NXNW chapter to be specific I could hardly party as I was so scared she would drop before I would. The poorly designed side stand has a footprint that is much too small for the kind of conditions we see much of the year around here and more so up in the Arctic, I have been using a piece of round aluminum I found on the side of the road, {I call this sort of find as road manna}, time for a change. On the KLR I welded a hunk of steel onto the existing, it works but is so not unique. This time around I had a while to think about it and made the food look like a foot. Much more cool! The BMW sorts are a little more refined with their farkles so this time I made it removable just in case.
Yet one more so cool thing to join our trip is a wireless headset, from Scala. I will be able to listen to the radio, the GPS, as well as answer and talk on the phone. Now do not jump up and down and have a heart attack (my old friends especially), this is only in an emergency, an it allows Jo to listen to her music and stuff, I will leave the phone functions up to her as well, but I will likely keep the GPS active on my reciever. As you can tell this weekend I have had a lot of fun.
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:59 am
Hi Paul & Jo!
welcome to the blogosphere 🙂
You are inspiring people, so a blog is perfect to share your adventures. Looking forward to your updates.
Cheers from Baja,
Harry & Ivana