Trip to the mountains

[William McEver]

Way to go lady, I don't know about others, but I had 3 incidents in one day, 
3 years ago in Florida, that kept me off my bike for a week!


MC 137
BMW  Wende
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Anhorn" <suzukirider800@shaw.ca>
To: <migcruisers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 9:41 PM
Subject: Trip to the mountains


> Hi all,
>
> Well let me first say that 6 hours of riding will cure a person of almost
> anything.
> It was a nice, warm, calm morning but I didn't get going until 1 p.m. 
> again.
> I had to wait for a certain store to open.  I was really nervous all 
> morning
> thinking about going for a ride today.  I was thinking of anything I could 
> to
> get myself talked out of it.  That's when I knew I had to go no matter 
> what
> excuse I came up with.  It would have been real nice to have someone to 
> come
> with me today, if for nothing other than moral support.  As I backed the 
> bike
> out of it's resting place my heart was pounding and it was starting to get
> difficult to breath.  I managed to get myself calmed down a bit lol  and
> finished packing up the bike.  But first I cleaned this and that, did
> something here, something there.  All small tasks made to procrastinate.
> Finally there was nothing left to do but get on and ride.
> By the time I left the wind was blowing - of course!  I'm going west where 
> it
> will only get worse!  I had already decided to take all back roads to the
> Crowsnest Pass which is almost on the British Columbia/Alberta border.
> Normally a 2 hour ride.  With all the back roads I managed to stretch that 
> to
> 3 hours.   I had a head wind most of the way which was manageable, and the 
> odd
> time I caught a sidewind.  I stopped and got a snack to take to Crowsnest 
> Lake
> which is at the border.  Wandered around a bit to get the circulation 
> moving
> again and went back to the bike to start my snack.  This (cute lol - sorry
> Craig lol) trucker jumps out of his truck and ambles over to where I was
> standing.  He was from Arkansas and had brought up a load of 12' tires for 
> the
> coal mine.  I chuckled to myself cos he was complaining how cold it was 
> here
> at nite lol  We had a wonderful conversation - he explained he used to 
> have a
> bike till he got divorced - and then I had to head back home.  I hate 
> leaving
> the mountains.  I did a few revs for Grumpy and went on my way.
> With the wind at my back I hardly used any gas at all.  Going there I 
> think I
> spent around $15 gas and on the way back $5 lol
> I was pretty jumpy at first - people passing me in the lane beside me or
> approaching the road made me nervous but I'm all better now :-)
>
> Julie
>
>
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