My winter trip

[yadada]

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

[Shuriken]

What an adventure. Nice writeup.

Reminds me a bit of this:

http://triggur.org/silo/site.html

[XJOK2PLAY]

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

[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

[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!!

[tarzan]

I thought we would get a lollygagging drawn out adventure on the way back.

Glad you made it home safe.
I thought at first you had to be hauling a$$ at first.
But did the math.If you rode straight through it would be at 53 mph.If you slept
5 hours in between it would be about 70 mph.That is without stopping for gas though.I figure there was some serious haulin and some areas you know you have to slow down to avoid the POPO or terrain.

[Wildkat]

You weren't riding in this weather in the DARK were you?

Now I am certain you are

What? you had a doubt?


When that horse headed to the barn... he headed to the BARN!

Glad you made it home safely, my friend
and something tells me, I'm not the only one...

I hope you didn't freeze your woman with those ice cold hands... or any other extremities that you were lucky didn't fall off along the way...
lol

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Welcome home Tod

Glad to see you made it safely!

1,180 miles in 22 hours? That's haulin' a$$. (that is, a NUMB a$$)

You weren't riding in this weather in the DARK were you?

Now I am certain you are

[oseaghdha]

Made it home. 1,180 miles in 22 hours, but the last 100 miles took 3 hours due to ice and snow. I took a couple pics and will post sometime tomorrow. Off to bed...


Tod

Dang!
That's hittin it a lick.
Glad you made it safe at home.

[trbig]

Made it home. 1,180 miles in 22 hours, but the last 100 miles took 3 hours due to ice and snow. I took a couple pics and will post sometime tomorrow. Off to bed...


Tod

[Ivan]

this is a big-azz hole!

You called?

There's a pot full that's even bigger than Ivan's helmet!

But, you just don't get that "authentic" flavor when the Stroganoff isn't made in my helmet.

[xs11jack]

Tod, that must be

quite a feed, if as you say, it as big as Ivan's helmet, I was told recently that the helmet started out life as a 55 gal steel drum!!!

[DeanR]

Great travelogue Tod !! Thanks, have a fun and safe remainder of your trip and Merry Christmas...

[trbig]

I am getting old... so I'll take your Jeep, get it stuck.. then stay nice and warm in the cab while you dig us out.

Merry Christmas Dave. I miss you guys.

Dad.

[4.0xj]

So... If you would have stayed home. We are in blizzard like condtions. Govenor declared state of emergency. They closed 35 down from texas to kansas. OKC got 11.5 inches of snow so far and a lot of wrecks. Sure wish you were here so we could take my xj out and have some fun in the snow. Mom is a bum when it comes to playing around in it, because if you go outside you are automatically destined to fall and break every bone and if you drive just go ahead and call the insurance company because you are going to wreck. I would even have you drive me jeep. I hear you are getting old though so i dont know if you could handle playing around in the snow anymore. You might be to old and brittle to be outside. Just saying we miss you and its boring around here with people who are cold blooded inside people