My winter trip

[DGXSER]

Good to know your home safe Tod. With the weather some of our southern members have been whinin about I figured it might have been tough going at some point.

Riding in the snow is one thing I hope to never have to do!!

[trbig]

There wasn't a whole lot of snow, but the last hundred miles, every bridge you went under had water running off during the day... and made a skating rink underneath I had to ride across. I'd have to slow down to walking speed and coast with the clutch in across.. with the outriggers (Legs) out. Nice when trucks are coming behind you doing 65. Then you had to pick a path when you crossed the bridges since they were all re-froze.

The worst part was my facemask would fog with every breath, then freeze. Mesa was down in a valley, so immediately after these shots yesterday morning on my way out,








I rose up out of the valley from the low 30's.. to much colder. I passed a couple banks with 21 on them, but it got colder and higher in elevation after that.

I made good time during the day once I passed El Paso. Just to the east of there, the speed limit changed to this...





Which was great.. you could do 90 without fear of a ticket... but see that bottom number? After it got dark, that's all you could do. I saw several people get pulled over for 68 or so. I guess being Saturday night, they were trying to find the drunks. So after that, the temps dropped again. I'd ride 70-100 miles, then go stand in a truck stop for 30 minutes and warm up a bit.. then back out for another leg. So I could have made the trip in much better time... but it's all my toes and fingers would allow.. lol.

I turned north near Fort Worth, TX, where it was nearly 37, but as I went north into Oklahoma, the temps kept dropping again.

I'll come on here and post some Christmas and family pics later. Time to spend time with this family..

Tod

[XJOK2PLAY]

Tod,
So glad you had a good time & made it home safe, Buddy!
Merry Christmas!
Bob

[Shuriken]

What an adventure. Nice writeup.

Reminds me a bit of this:
http://triggur.org/silo/site.html

[yadada]

That looks like a great trip. Thanks for posting the report! Glad you made it safely.