Grant @ Colorado
Smells
First time I have had time to write. The open road is wonderful. Unlike seeing America from within a car – motorcycles offer the smells the environments. I will keep this post open and just to jot these down
- Cars (nitrous oxides)
- Diesel trucks (exhaust, brakes and clutches)
- Newly plowed earth
- Blooming trees and flowers
- Jet fuel (plane passed over us approaching airport)
- Fertilizer (it is planting session)
- Manures and Farms
- Approaching Rain
- Just Rain
- After the rain
- Dust Storms
- Irrigation systems (yes different than rain)
- Baking bread (was actually a grain processing mill)
- Fear (yesterdays weather travels)
- Fresh asphalt
- Feed lot (thousands of beef critters. Horrid smell and a worse environment fir them)
- Fresh sawn wood
- Camp fires
- Brush fires
- BBQ
- Burger King
- More to follow…..
Weather 101
Not pleased with yesterday’s unpreparedness. Spent time last night playing with alerts and apps. Lesson learned. Even though we aren’t the novice travelers, we truly had a gap in our planning and monitoring activities. That said the adventure was exciting!
Rough Ride
Seventy miles out of Denver and the weather went south. Hale, wind, torrent rain, thunder, lightening and then it cleared. Followed by dark sky rain, stronger winds and a blinding dust storm. Holy crap what a ride.
Grant @ Nebraska
Still Looking Up
Hot and humid at 5:3o
Looking Up
Entering Nebraska. Don’t let he sky fool you ……. it’s HOT
Ended the Day
Air temp for the last 2.5 hours in the saddle was 1oo degrees