Geography

OK, so it hasn't been warm enough for anything exciting to happen yet. My Harley is in for its 5000 mile maintenance and getting new handlebars. I should get it back tomorrow so I'm hoping for temps at least in the 60s!!

So, in the mean-time I've been amusing myself with a really cool Navy website. You have to be a veteran or active duty of the Navy to get on the site. As of today, there are over 90,000 people on the site! It's so much fun to reconnect with people I haven't seen in over a decade! I've corresponded with a girl I went to boot camp that I hadn't seen since we graduated from RTC Orlando, FL in 1989. She's a Senior Chief and will be retiring in 2 years. Now that's sobering! It's hilarious to see all the old pictures everyone is posting! We all look so young!!

Here's another cool thing from the website:

Wow, I've still got a lot of traveling left to do!!

Click on the map and you can make your own!

Nothing exciting

Well, I was hoping to have some cool stories and pics to share this weekend, but it just didn't turn out that way. Yesterday and today we hit 70 degrees, so I was a much happier camper than I had been lately! It's amazing that you can wake up to 28 degrees, then by noon it can reach 70 degrees! I sealed the wood of my pergola yesterday and did some yard work, but that was about it. Today, my friend Suzanne and I got some riding on the Harleys in. I was so excited because 70 degrees, that's warm right? Yeah, well not if you want to ride winding roads. The scenery is great, but the problem with mountain roads is that they go UP! As elevation increases, temperature decreases. I couldn't believe how much snow is still on the ground just a few miles up the road from my house. There's just no getting around it, I've had a chill in my bones since last September (when I got to thaw out in Hawaii). Ugh.

I've been trying to stay positive and optimistic, especially since sustained warm weather is only a month away. In the back of my mind though, I know that sunset will still signal the need for a jacket, not matter what month it is here in Colorado or how warm it got during the day. So, I'm left trying to suck up as much warmth as I can before nightfall and trying to keep the speed on my bike below 40 mph in order to keep the wind chill down! Oh, for some boiled crawfish in a screened in porch with mosquitoes buzzing around. . .

Riding popsickles

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I haven't been traveling out of town much and the weather here hasn't been conducive to seeking out adventures! The weather this weekend has been much better, relatively speaking anyway. The temp was in the upper 40s and mid 50s.

The usual group that I ride with met up at a diner this morning where we all had breakfast before riding around for a few hours. Before breakfast, my friend Sam and I put some new pipes on my bike. I didn't want any that were too loud, my neighbors are great at checking in on my house while I travel and I don't want to make them mad! The pipes are a bit loud for cranking off the bike at my house, but they sound great out on the road. Plus, my bike's got a lot more get-up-and-go now when I roll back on the throttle! I have the smallest bike of the group I ride with and I was tired of hearing "If you're gonna ride with the big dogs. . . "

As you can see from the pics, there's still a lot of snow around. Actually, down here in the Springs, most of it is melted. The picture of the gazebo in the middle of a frozen lake is up at Green Mountain Falls park on the way up to Woodland Park.

So, not much else going on. Lot's of work and trying to stay ahead of the game while waiting for warm weather to arrive. Hopefully, I'll have a little more adventure in my life in the next couple of weeks so I can post something interesting! Thanks for checking in!!