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Sitting around talking to my buddy Dave in Indiana today. We settled on some dates and a rough time frame for a ride to California this summer. Dates are May 28th through June 6th; 8 nights 9 days to the coast and back. A little less mileage this time around - about 300 miles per day. Our vague route will include Lake Tahoe, Redwood Forests, Pacific Ocean, Crater Lake, Bonneville Salt Flats. See attached pic. As usual, if any of you casual riders would like to come along with us, you're more than welcome. So far, it's just myself, Dave and his wife Debbie going. Room for more!

You haven't missed anything. Snow is asshole deep on a 9 foot Indian, it's well be low freezing every day and riding bikes is but a dream that is 6 months away for me. But it is sunny today!

I only eat ribs in a few parts of the USA as they usually suck outside of those regions. Tennessee and Texas are the best areas to get ribs..... at least I think so.

I was looking at some old pics from last year's trip to Tennessee and saw some pics that @Pedro would like. My bud Dave and I had a couple of small racks of ribs, replete with cinnamon apples, mashed taters and a few liters of beer. Proper meal after a day's ride....

But that's pretty good for CT, isn't it? Premium is around $2.55 here.

I hate you all. Driveway is still snow covered as are the streets - need 4 WD just to get out of here. Plus it's still colder than shit, Should be out riding around May 20th or so............

Shopfront in Black Hawk...

Couple of the local hotties out for a ride. House then and now...

Main Street in Central City, today, 1957, 1940 and 1862.....

Yeah, once the people in the town quit chopping them down for building and fuel, they came back pretty fast.

It does, but it's just an old, crappy little town in the mountains.

On the way to Aspen, Mineral Creek overlook in 1890 and today....

We don't have a grocery store in town, or a petrol station or any other kinds of shops, but goddammit - we have an Opera House. Cause you never know when an opera might break out at any given moment. Pics from today, what looks like the 1920's and 1880....

mas fotos...

Couple from my 'hood...

Cool !

I love old pics and comparing them to new pics of the same place. Fortunately, photographing was popular in Colorado around the 1880's as the State was being discovered. Not of the same place, but it's the same train thingie. Late 1940's and today....

Purely accidental that they were taken in pretty much the same place....

Founds some old pics taken in the 1880's that had some familiar locations,,,

Ours has slowly been dropping; about 20% less than recent months. And Colorado's taxes are fairly average on fuel, so it must be a lot cheaper elsewhere in the USA.

Wow - about $5.45 per US gallon then.

Gas is down to about $1,73 per US gallon here. About $0.45 per liter, 0.37 Euro per liter, 0.33 Pounds per liter What is it where you live?

It's a manly looking purple. You need to adjust your monitor settings.

Nah, we went 4 months this past summer with no rain. And when it does rain, it's the Virga rain that doesn't even get your jacket wet. It's weird to ride in the rain and never get wet. The higher portions of Colorado can get some thunderstorms, but the are usually only 1-2 big clouds that move by pretty quickly. Sit down, take a break and watch it pass. Waiting on a traffic accident to be cleared before the road opens - in rain as hard as it gets in the desert. Jacket isn't even wet....