If you love riding winter sucks!

The opportunity to ride have been few and far between, in fact I bought a new rear tire from a local shop weeks ago and have not even been able to get the bike to them to get it installed. Every week or so I start it and let it warm up to keep the battery and to a lesser extent my soul changed but I miss riding so my attention has turned to planning the big trip this summer.

The date is set Thursday July 10th through Sunday July 20th (really planning to return Saturday the 19th to have a day to rest before work on Monday)

Day 1 Denver to Keystone, SD (Mt Rushmore)
Day 2 visit Mt Rushmore and possibly Sturgis
Day 3 Keystone, SD to Hardin, MT with a visit to Devil’s Tower monument seen in the end of Close Encounters of the third kind
Day 4 Hardin, MT to Yellowstone
Day 5, 6 & 7 Tour Yellowstone and the Grand Teton’s
Day 8 Grand Teton Park to Vernal, UT
Day 9 Vernal to Buena Vista, CO with a tour through the Black Canyon of Gunnison
Day 10 Buena Vista to Home with lots of time in the mountains on the way

This adds up to about 2000 miles not counting the tour days at Mt Rushmore and Yellowstone.

I have gone back and forth on the subject of making the ride a sort of Christian men’s retreat but have decided against it and to focus on enjoying the ride and time with the men who choose to come. I will be listening to a book and music while I ride and if the other riders are interested I’ll share the MP3 files but I don’t want to plan for the great spiritual truth we will discuss on night 5, it is more important for me to just be one of the guys.

Please pray for those of us who will be taking this trip that it will be an adventure that will awaken our hearts and souls and that we will grow closer to The Father as we have time away from the Matrix. If you are considering joining the trip please contact me soon so we can form up plans.

I am considering another trip called 24 in 24. It is a trip where you cross 24 peaks in the Rocky Mountains in 24 hours – like a marathon on a motorcycle. I may do it in 48 hours so I can enjoy the views.

That is all for now I need to return to my search for the perfect tank bag.