Home Again / October 19, 2008

We are home now. Short trip out West, but had a great time. We went out to Reno, via Rte 80. oohed and aaahed over the great scenery, came back via Rte 80, ooohed and aahed over the the great scenery. Don't believe we will ever get used to how beautiful this country is. Saw 100's of Antelopes, but never got a picture. Made a wrong turn , went 25 miles out of our way, but the scenery was gorgeous, came up over a rise and lo and behold between 7 - 10 wild turkeys we had to slow up for, taking a walk in the road.

Caught the devil from Gina, because I posted the Harley Boys pictures and none of her and Joey. Will get to that, I promise as soon as I remember to put them into my pc. Harley boys were cute tho, weren't they???

Must tell you about a great day in Iowa. We had the Bird in the shop, really, in at 7am, out about 3:30pm. I am thinking $$$$$$, but the manager, felt it could have been fixed quicker and more efficiently and soooo, charged us for 1 1/2 hrs labor, and was not positive the parts weren't harmed during the repair, so did not charge us full prices. What a marvelous stop that was, then as we were hooking up, saw an adorable little Class C, we went over to look at it, They invited us in, great people, originally from Canada. Then on our way. We stopped at Iowa I80 truck stop (Largest in the country)for Supper, and guess what, Our new Canadian friends walked by, we asked them to join us, talked for another couple hours. Then we were on our way. OOPS, made a wrong turn. we were on a lonely country road, found a place to do a ueee(SP), a little car pulled in and started saying something to Bill. He opened his little window, the lady asked if we were lost. We said we thought we knew where we were going now, she insisted, "Follow me, I will get you back to 80: SHE WENT A GOOD 10 MILES OUT OF HER WAY. I wanted to giver her a card and tell her to read my blog, as I intended to brag about her, but, when we got to 80, she stuck her arm out the window, waved to us and went on.
great day, right. its not just the beautiful country that makes me love this life style, it is all the great people we are meeting and the new friends we are making.

Wheew! Long winded? Ok, I will quit for now. have a great day, and KEEP SMILIN'

Reno Bikers

Reno, NV 2008

We had a glorious 2 weeks with Gina and her new fella. Hope you all get a chance to meet him, he is a cutie! Didn't do much but visit and eat it seemed, but it was great. We do miss that girl!

While we were there, there was "Street Vibrations" going on. What a hoot. There were over 30,000 motorcycles there, everywhere. Lots of leather and skin too. I was looking for some leather pants, but never did find them that I really liked, but I did find something else. If I can get some pictures posted to my blog, you will see what I found!!!!. OH MY!!!!

We have traveled mostly RTE 80 on this trip, no cactus and Joshua Trees like on Rte 70, but this country is amazing. I am sure I have seen some of these sites before, like 2 weeks ago, going West, but I am still ooohing and aaahing.