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Velocityguy 
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Joined: Jan-30-2010 Location: Tucson Status: Offline Points: 18 |
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 Posted: Jun-15-2012 at 12:59pm |
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Judy and I just got back to Tucson yesterday. When we left D.C., we went to visit the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania. From there we headed out to visit the Black Hills in South Dakota and then onto Yellowstone Park and Grand Teton Park. Let me say that Yellowstone was very unfriendly to motorcyclists in the first week of June. We had blizzard like conditions with daytime temperatures around 32 degrees. Also, car drivers were in too big of a hurry to motor through the park. Even though we were driving the posted limit, autos ran right up on our back bumpers and stayed there until we pulled of the pavement which happened to us so many times I lost count. It really angered me to look in my rear view mirrors and see a car driving no more than 5 feet off the bumper of my wife's bike. Anyway, after visiting her relatives in Utah, we finally made it home to sleep in our own bed again. 8,064 miles and 32 days on the road were enough!
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SheWolf
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Joined: Feb-13-2010 Location: Colorado/Texas Status: Offline Points: 1996 |
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Posted: Jun-15-2012 at 1:09pm |
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Glad you made it home, sorry about the idiots whom you had to share a beautiful park with....
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Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation. Thanks SheWolf
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Princess
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Joined: Apr-26-2012 Location: Austin, TX Status: Offline Points: 14 |
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Posted: Jun-15-2012 at 3:40pm |
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Mario, Marsha 'Chief' and I (purple heritage) made it back to Texas on June 1. We headed up to York, PA to visit family and then off to Gettysburg for a ghost tour, the film and the cyclorama, before heading South in an attempt to beat the storm... we did hit some rain resulting in a 2 hour delay just across the WV border from Maryland, but after that lightening storm, the weather was perfect riding all the way to Central Texas.
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Sugarbutt
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Joined: Nov-01-2010 Location: Denver, CO Status: Offline Points: 27 |
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Posted: Jun-19-2012 at 12:00pm |
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Hi, Family ~ Limped into Denver on the 4th. after an unexpected 3-day stayover in W. V. I took a spill on I-79 that resulted in three broken bones in my left foot. After emergency repairs to the bike to get her road worthy again, and an orthopedic shoe and crutches ~ I simply had to ride home.
All is well now, I am mending rapidly and getting a lot of loving attention from family and friends. The bike's in the shop getting ready for RFTW 2013 ~ the big 25th. Anniversary! Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers! Miss you all and can't wait for the reunion.
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Heavy Hawg
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Joined: Mar-21-2010 Location: Cave Creek, AZ Status: Offline Points: 208 |
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Posted: Jun-19-2012 at 2:17pm |
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Sugarbutt that is definitely a rough way to finish the ride. Hope you and the bike make a full recovery.
I made it home last night. Just a shade more than 6000 miles on the bike and untold number of great memories. I hit horrible winds across Texas and New Mexico and could not even maintain the speed limit most of the time. The dog is really glad I am home and doesn't realize I am ready to go again. Less than 350 days.
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Hot Rod Grandpa
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Joined: Jan-17-2012 Location: San Dimas, CA Status: Offline Points: 719 |
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Posted: Jun-19-2012 at 7:21pm |
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Welcome home, Sugarbutt, sorry to hear about your spill. My father-in-law, who used to be a pilot, says any landing you can walk away from is a good one. I guess that goes for riding as well. Take care, mend well and next year it's ATW! Welcome home to you, too, Heavy Hawg. Those winds must have been the same ones the rest of us hit coming across Nevada on our last day on the road. It was great riding with you and working with you in Branson. Til next year...
HRG
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Remember, the price of freedom is written on the Wall.
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Sugarbutt
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Posted: Jun-20-2012 at 8:10am |
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Welcome Home, Heavy Hawg and Hot Rod Grandpa! Thanks for your good thoughts! This was my second ATW; in '08 it was the rains that plagued us on the way home, this time it was the wind. And yet, here we are looking forward to the next one...
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Heavy Hawg
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Posted: Jun-28-2012 at 6:00pm |
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Definitely making plans for next year. Going to try and stay gone all summer next year. I enjoyed the volunteering enough to already volunteer to help in a "Green Schoolhouse" project. Building a LEED Platinum school building with all volunteer help. Should be interesting. They are doing some in San Diego if you get bored Sidewalk. Take care my friends.
Sugarbutt, hopefully 2013 will bring excellent riding weather for the entire trip.
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Sugarbutt
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Posted: Jun-28-2012 at 10:05pm |
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Sounds like a great plan, being gone all summer next year! Good for you, HH ~ what a worthy cause! Keep us posted on how the project is going - are you building in Arizona?
As to the weather, isn't it always 'excellent' weather when we are riding RFTW???
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