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I have endured a significant disadvantage on BOTM this month. You see, on one side I took a perfectly focused and pretty picture of @Sofia’s Speed Triple with her smile and pose next to it, and a great scenic view behind. On the other hand, I got this focus when I spotted a nice opportunity for a BOTM picture and asked for my picture taken. Granted there's a big difference in the quality of our smiles, but look at this She got it perfectly focused when I was struggling to back the GS up a step onto the road, though I have been bamboozled.

Now for some honda gear to wear..

Shame you can't see the hair properly, I had a full on mullet there ............

The photo is a bit grainy as it's about 25 years ago but that is on Port Talbot beach

Haha yeah would have been good had that been the case but between Monday morning and 11pm last night when I got home I did slightly over 56 hours driving over that 3 day period and worked closer to 63 hours and the time I wasn't working I was asleep so 9hours sleep over that time over that time was shit, don't think I'd last very long on that kind of balance. Today though I've been offered a start next Tuesday for the place I've been working at doing the holiday cover as one of the guys there has just handed his notice in, im working there again next week anyway so will find out the gen and will most likely go there as I'll be minimum £500 a month better off as its a 5 mile commute rather than 40 miles a day to Middlesbrough and back, and I get my own truck so don't have to keep transferring all my prozzie killing gear from one truck to another. It's a no brainer

I may ride to work tomorrow so I might have a photo later. I'll see if I can find a nice hedge , lay-by or wheelie bin and park up next to it ..........

Not a great picture, but I just love the location and the views from this dirtroad. Somehow never translates the dimensions over my phone pictures.

no worries , I’ll use it again in a couple of months

Ready for travel.

Trade plate drivers don't work by tacho as most won't be calibrated

Well that's me just getting up after my 21½ hrs shift at work yesterday.... Started 3am yesterday and drove up to thirsk then got a truck from thirsk to sherbert in your helmet, got dropped off in Bedford for a run down to Purfleet, a taxi to Leyton and then another gritter up to thirsk all in all about 18 hrs behind the wheel of trucks..... And work then got surprised when I told then am I fuck on the road today..... bunch of twats They really wouldn't have cared if I'd worked 24hrs straight dropped off the gritter and then gone off on to another pick up and they say we're not under duress to get the job done

All of them, they live in a 15 minute neighbourhood near Tooting Common.

At Bragança airfield

You mean the engine doesn't run on metal.... well you learn something new everyday. That was a question from Pete, he thought petrol was just a lubricant to help the metal flow better

Come on @Specs , get your photo up

Good question , but as he only drove about an hour on the first journey and then about 6 hours on the second journey I'd say he was well within his driving hours .

Made to Santa Fe , some 425 miles later, in time for dinner. Food was beyond fantastic, so it was worth the hardship of getting here....

Best feature of the Park was this wall of rock cliff thing. But it's actually in Mexico and not even in the Park . Can't even hike to it if you wanted to ....

Don't you have a tacho?

How would like to have this as your Ranger Station? No Thanks.... Some machinery from mining operations years ago sits in the sun and decays....

Lots of riding in the park to get to the other side - about 50 miles one way - and not a lot there , really....

Stopped at an overlook - that's Mexico across the Rio Grande River. Some Mexicans had set up a display of crafts they made for sale. Somehow they heard that the Border Patrol was coming and they jumped up and ran towards Mexico - leaving all of their stuff behind. As we drove pout, 3 Border Patrol trucks were pulling in. Funny. You can see some of the crafts in the background of the pics.

Wednesday and we're off to the big Bend National Park in far southern Texas. The drive to get there is about 60 miles - not the greatest 60 miles I ever rode, either. Stopped to look at the plants on the way....

Which one's Ren ?

Wait, there’s a video of me going there for the picture: There was a huge guard dog sleeping on the other bank, with some children playing around. As soon as I started crossing the river he gave me a look and stood up paying attention. I was happy to go back

After checking things out and final negotiations with the sales rep....and checking out some Honda Tshirt....my niples are kinda sensative at the moment...is this normal?

@yen_powell doing what he does best!

Cool ,that's your best photo yet, what a shame that you're banned ............

Very nice!

Half a dozen, mostly around Tottenham

You can walk across it.

Weather back home is bad so we're going to stay here for 3 days and wait for the snow to melt a bit. Dave and Debbie head back Friday morning. Going to rent a car to get around here for a few days as the weather is gonna be a bit iffy. More pics later.........

I suppose the Park is better if you wanna walk on the hot assed caliche for miles, but there really isn't all that much to see....

I expect we might have a contender from @Specs too…

Me to Bob there's signs there restricting everyone now although i think they were there when i was riding it years ago

until it turns round..

i will be going for a blast on it shortly

I reckon @Marcel's dohicky popped after all that strawberry ice-cream .................

Tough shit Batman.

A hill somewhere if France, those zig zags to the left were steep and loose. My starfish was clenching all the way up

We wake up sort of earlyish, and by 8 we´re putting the luggage on the bikes, ready to go back for breakfast and then leave in a stylish fashion, without fuss, like you do. After a proper breakfast, I stop to take a picture of a safe. This is an old safe, it's made out of wood and highly decorated, I will have to investigate what it actually is and if they actually build it around a treasure to keep it safe. After following the N2 south of Viseu for a while, we stop for lunch in Castanheira de Pera. Not much picture taking going on that morning, great roads and nice scenery but we didn't stop much except this once: Bikes looking good parked next to the cafe as we eat some traditional soup, a bit of a let down of a lunch compared to what I had planned, but it was hearty soup that made for a good motorcycling lunch. Fortunately, going out of Castanheira de Pera the road I had planned on taking was closed, we took a detour via a smaller road straight over the hills, turns out I had been up there before but completely forgot about the place. Good result, almost deserted roads with surprise views. We pass a couple of older gents cruising up the hill on 50cc two strokes on full speed, and a little later stop to take a scenic picture, the second one adopts a salt lake top speed record pose as the little 50cc screams past Right on top of the hill and before we start our descent towards the east and closer to the coastline, Sofia gets a call that is supposed to take a few minutes, so I go explore a dirt road leading 2km into a small chapel with a view. It was here that I realize I've been to this place before At Ansião we stop for a coffee, after the nice road going down the hill I take my helmet off and a bug comes out. This bug got into my helmet and tried to get into my ear a while back, I thought I had taken it off but turns out he was hiding in the linings, little guy just migrated 50km into the other side of a mountain. From Ansião we get on a fast IC roads and cruise to Jomotos, in Pombal, for a quick stop by a motorcycle shop, a treat for Sofia. I disregard the new stuff and take three fotos of interesting or quirky bikes. Jomotos is a dealership for BMW, Honda, Suzuki and KTM/Husqvarna/GasGas, they're properly big for Portuguese standards and the chief mechanic is a cool guy that has looked after my bike a couple of times for routine maintenance. They say KTM and Husqvarna and Gas Gas are the same bike in different colors, they're right: After they look at the Speed Triple chain and give it a spray, he head home on motorway mode, after a quick race we settle at a steady 80 / 85mph and make the last 150kmh a haste, in time for plenty of fun arriving home to puppies that missed her terribly. It was a nice trip, lots of bad weather made us appreciate the following days, I'll certainly be going back to Tras os Montes.