Blogs from United States, North America - page 11

TODAY WE DISCOVERED INTERCOURSE AND IT IS AS CLOSE TO PARADISE AS YOU CAN GET !!!! Now that I have your attention I am talking about Intercourse, Pennsylvania and Paradise, Pennsylvania. We are in the centre of Amish country. We have tried to find out the origin of the name for the town of Intercourse, nobody seems to know for sure. I like the idea that it was named by a mid-wife to help promote business (that was for you, Joan). We rode all the way here today in a downpour. A 25 degree downpour. What a difference riding in the rain when you are warm. We spent the day laughing with each other and enjoying the ride rather than just complaining how cold we are. It also helped that we were leaving the filthy RV ... read more

Doug and I went to Gilmore Motor Museum for their annual Vintage bike show. http://www.gilmorecarmuseum.org/index.php Wow, what a place! We got there early, nice day but with the forecast for rain later. Not many bikes at this point so I got my first taste of the quality and standard of presentation by going onto the Ford building. Yeah, that's right! A separate building housing just old Fords! And many other buildings dedicated to one make. I had been told that the museum had many barns. Well, these were barns in the same way as a $5million condo is a house! More on the cars later. With the showground filling up, we made for the custom bike area to meet up with some of the guys from NGW. There were three members bikes entered,: Greg with the ... read more

Las Vegas to Death Valley. Up and away bright and early from the Pink Flamingo. No breakfast as the queue at the café next to the lifts was too long and we didn’t want to lug the cases any further than that. Checked out, after only a little queuing and I waited with the cases while Bob brought the car round from the multi-storey car park, which was free, one of the few free things in Vegas as it happens. No problem at all getting out of town on the freeway, in fact surprisingly easy. A spectacular drive through this barren area of Nevada. Mostly without a covering of vegetation the earth is stripped and bare showing its multi-coloured layers of rock. Quite amazing in some places that anything manages to grow at all but most ... read more

After breakfast and a long chat with Kimberley at the Lodge we set off for Lake Tahoe. It was another blistering hot day and more lovely treelined, shady roads. We stopped briefly in Quincy for a drink and another quick look for leads for the GoPro, with no success and headed out of town. Jim seemed to be taking it very steady, and stopped and asked if I agreed that it was a particularly bad road surface. I didn't! He checked both tyres were ok and set off again for a brief 2 minutes before stopping again. The bike was broken!! Same rear drive gearbox had failed. Jim had noticed that we had passed a bike shop coming out of town, so I sat in the shade while he took my bike and disappeared off. 20 ... read more

Troy and I arrived in Denver to a very hot, hot day. Surprisingly it was 97 degrees. We got our car car, a Nissan is not a Lexus, by the way and headed up the eastern side of Wyoming. This area of Wyoming is green and the landscape is rolling hills covered with outcroppings of grey rock. Prairie dog towns with vigilant sentinels standing watch dot the area. Lewis and Clark named these little critters and sent a specimen to Jefferson. Their companions in the field are antelope also sighted by Lewis and Clark. In the quiet little town of Guernsey we saw the ruts of the Conestoga wagons that traveled along the North Platte River. The difficulties of this journey was evident by the gravesite of Lucindy Rollins. She is remembered by a monument, but ... read more

hello friends. good morning i mean afternoon. good something, right? duality it is said hidden from view a view of duality breaking of this black and whiteness seeing in color seeing not right or wrong just seeing hmm. breaking through and being patient for things to happen. knowing that all is well all is well network of support always there for you my friend this is true just ask for it that is all if you cut yourself off it is you doing the cutting cut not just ask that simple and give without attachment reward harder said than done, right? we all want something something in return true? maybe not all of us bless those stop there. emotions consume you why? the feeling of ... you pick an... read more

Left the “City of Rocks” at 8:00AM MDT and 83 degrees. Off to Tombstone Arizona. Crossed the Continental Divide, elevation 4585 feet. Crossed into Arizona at 9:50AM DMT, traffic was light. There were barren Western mountains all across the horizon. We heard a weather alert for very low visibility due to blowing sand and dust devils. 98 degrees at noon with a high of 102 today. We arrived Kartchner Caverns State Park at 12:15PM MDT. Arizona knows how to do State Parks; this is the loveliest State Park we have ever been in. Hundreds of Chinese Tallow Trees all through the park. A few pictures will be with the blog but many more tomorrow from Tombstone and the “OK” Corral. lol ... read more