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This adventure all started out with pie. Banana Crème to be exact.
ETA: Generally, I'll be running to Fargo, ND, then over to Niagra Falls, NY then Montreal Canada and back down the East Coast picking up the Blueridge Parkway/Tail of the Dragon on the return leg. I hope to be back in Texas by July 15th at the latest.
Date: 06/27/2009
Destination: Tulsa (Owasso), OK
Miles: 662
States: Texas, Oklahoma
Of late, I’ve been looking at my map of where I’ve been and where I haven’t. About half the country was in the “haven’t “ bucket so I thought this would be the time to see if I could make progress on visiting all 50 states on my motorcycle. Having the money, but no time was a problem, but now I’ve got all the time and no money short of what I was paid on cash-out when the company I worked for closed shop and sent all their operations overseas to Switzerland.
So I started to think of fun places while mapping out a good route. Lots of suggestions came forward, but in the end, I had to get Fargo ND out of the way since it was the furthest North state from Texas.
I eagerly packed and went back and forth on hotels or camping therefore unpacking, then repacking. I wound up deciding I’d camp most of the trip just to see if this was really something I enjoyed or not. I’ve already learned I miss my big Touratech panniers. These little BMW city cases just don’t hold the goods like those big old beer coolers do.
I also decided I’d take my laptop. Yes. Laptop. Big, heavy, 15” screen and all. That presented a challenge of just how does one lug it around and keep it safe? Well, I looked at the Pelican cases and settled on one that seems to do the job. So in goes the laptop and wow, there’s still room for the little point and shoot camera, iPod if I’m not using it and all the miscellaneous chargers and adapters for the camera, phones, computer etc.
So here’s a pic of the mandarin pig all loaded and ready to go.
This morning I rolled out of bed and was really looking forward to seeing all my friends with Two Wheeled Texans in Marble Falls at the Bluebonnet. As I pulled into the parking lot, Cindy (Sunkissed) greeted me with a big old smile and Rusty (Woodbutcher) with a big old handshake. I just knew today was going to be grand. We made our way inside to the lovely air-conditioning and ordered. I also had the opportunity to meet Slowpoke and Ed (HoopleEd).
After a good lunch and the banana crème pie...
... the time had come to head North. Not a whole lot going on from Marble Falls up 281 to Jacksboro except for the worlds largest rocking chair. Go figure. I thought there were several of those floating around as I recall my niece sitting on one somewhere on the East coast.
A quick stop in Mineral Wells out of curiosity over the towns name too.
The run over to Denton was starting to warm up. Then heading North on 35 at Gainsville there was 6 miles of stop and go traffic. Clutch in – Clutch out. Clutch in – Clutch out. And it was hot. Clutch in – Clutch out. That finally cleared and a few thermometers read 110*F so I figured that was fairly accurate.
About Marietta, OK I stopped for fuel and a big old Gatorade with ice. Man did that hit the spot. I also noticed why my camelback Mule was empty. It wasn’t because I had sucked it dry, but rather pinched the line somehow. I was really thirsty the last couple hours, but thought it was empty. About six cups of ice cured that and I fixed the line routing and all was good.
Heading up to OKC the sunset was beautiful. I had given thought to stopping by the OKC memorial, but a low deck of clouds came in about that time and blew any good photo opportunities I may have had. So I headed over to Tulsa with the setting sun and a fairly big thunderstorm somewhere off in the distance brewing. I knew I’d beat whatever it was so that was no concern. I arrived at what we refer to as TMA or Too Many Acres. My uncles place North of Tulsa where I pulled the bike in at the hangar door, unloaded the bike and made my way to the aviation themed ‘apartment’ inside the hanger. I’m looking at a 1954 L-19 “Birddog” as I type just sitting there waiting on tomorrows events.
The "Hanger Hotel" for Saturday night.
Stay tuned….. I'll post up where I have internet and time.
This adventure all started out with pie. Banana Crème to be exact.
ETA: Generally, I'll be running to Fargo, ND, then over to Niagra Falls, NY then Montreal Canada and back down the East Coast picking up the Blueridge Parkway/Tail of the Dragon on the return leg. I hope to be back in Texas by July 15th at the latest.
Date: 06/27/2009
Destination: Tulsa (Owasso), OK
Miles: 662
States: Texas, Oklahoma
Of late, I’ve been looking at my map of where I’ve been and where I haven’t. About half the country was in the “haven’t “ bucket so I thought this would be the time to see if I could make progress on visiting all 50 states on my motorcycle. Having the money, but no time was a problem, but now I’ve got all the time and no money short of what I was paid on cash-out when the company I worked for closed shop and sent all their operations overseas to Switzerland.
So I started to think of fun places while mapping out a good route. Lots of suggestions came forward, but in the end, I had to get Fargo ND out of the way since it was the furthest North state from Texas.
I eagerly packed and went back and forth on hotels or camping therefore unpacking, then repacking. I wound up deciding I’d camp most of the trip just to see if this was really something I enjoyed or not. I’ve already learned I miss my big Touratech panniers. These little BMW city cases just don’t hold the goods like those big old beer coolers do.
I also decided I’d take my laptop. Yes. Laptop. Big, heavy, 15” screen and all. That presented a challenge of just how does one lug it around and keep it safe? Well, I looked at the Pelican cases and settled on one that seems to do the job. So in goes the laptop and wow, there’s still room for the little point and shoot camera, iPod if I’m not using it and all the miscellaneous chargers and adapters for the camera, phones, computer etc.
So here’s a pic of the mandarin pig all loaded and ready to go.
This morning I rolled out of bed and was really looking forward to seeing all my friends with Two Wheeled Texans in Marble Falls at the Bluebonnet. As I pulled into the parking lot, Cindy (Sunkissed) greeted me with a big old smile and Rusty (Woodbutcher) with a big old handshake. I just knew today was going to be grand. We made our way inside to the lovely air-conditioning and ordered. I also had the opportunity to meet Slowpoke and Ed (HoopleEd).
After a good lunch and the banana crème pie...
... the time had come to head North. Not a whole lot going on from Marble Falls up 281 to Jacksboro except for the worlds largest rocking chair. Go figure. I thought there were several of those floating around as I recall my niece sitting on one somewhere on the East coast.
A quick stop in Mineral Wells out of curiosity over the towns name too.
The run over to Denton was starting to warm up. Then heading North on 35 at Gainsville there was 6 miles of stop and go traffic. Clutch in – Clutch out. Clutch in – Clutch out. And it was hot. Clutch in – Clutch out. That finally cleared and a few thermometers read 110*F so I figured that was fairly accurate.
About Marietta, OK I stopped for fuel and a big old Gatorade with ice. Man did that hit the spot. I also noticed why my camelback Mule was empty. It wasn’t because I had sucked it dry, but rather pinched the line somehow. I was really thirsty the last couple hours, but thought it was empty. About six cups of ice cured that and I fixed the line routing and all was good.
Heading up to OKC the sunset was beautiful. I had given thought to stopping by the OKC memorial, but a low deck of clouds came in about that time and blew any good photo opportunities I may have had. So I headed over to Tulsa with the setting sun and a fairly big thunderstorm somewhere off in the distance brewing. I knew I’d beat whatever it was so that was no concern. I arrived at what we refer to as TMA or Too Many Acres. My uncles place North of Tulsa where I pulled the bike in at the hangar door, unloaded the bike and made my way to the aviation themed ‘apartment’ inside the hanger. I’m looking at a 1954 L-19 “Birddog” as I type just sitting there waiting on tomorrows events.
The "Hanger Hotel" for Saturday night.
Stay tuned….. I'll post up where I have internet and time.
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