Winter Still Here!

So will Spring ever spring? Will the weather ever get warmer? Will the snow ever stop falling?

It feels like I'll never be able to get on my bike and ride.... ARG

It's cold out and the snow still is clinging to the ground.... Not much mind you, but, just enough to let you know that winter still has a grip on you. No sun to shine. clouds.... hazy.... BLAH!

I beckon you Spring! I dare you to show me your face!!!!  Last year on March 11th 1 year and 1 day ago, I rode my bike for the first time for the season..... it was 62 out.... (yeah, I know I'm strange I mark that on my calendar every year) today it's in the 30's..... I'm not liking it.....

I need to ride...... the fresh air in my face.... to make me feel alive again... to wake up from this long Hibernation and let the Spring breezes feed my soul......

So once again..... Spring...... I Beckon You!!!!! Show Me Your Face!

Let my Metal Monster Wake from it's Sleep!

Intro

So we are doing the count down to ..... leaving for Wyoming, Grand Tetons, Yellowstone and the BadLands.


Sweetlu started his blog for Moding for this trip, and I was sitting here thinking that I use to Blog my trips before computers, so why not do it for this trip... do the countdown and the trip itself.... yeah, that's what I'll do.... Lou, hope I'm not cutting into your blogging.... but..... I just have to do this.... for the women of VR.... so they will feel my pain of putting up with Mike and you....together.... for 2 weeks.... 14 days.... oy vay!   G-d help me!  LOL

No really! This is a dream trip. Can't wait... only 96 more days till we leave.

There is still snow on the ground here.... Mike's and My bike are in the Garage, under sheets.... waiting for the snow to melt, the temperature to get warmer, and the chalky white roads of salt to get washed off... Then hopefully by then I will have my seat back and I will be able to get out and take my first ride of the season.   My bike has been in the garage since November..... Cold.... Covered..... waiting for spring.....
Spring is just around the corner. Bikers everywhere are waiting and counting down .... for that first ride, the ride that reminds us why we are here.... to see to feel to touch the wind...... Taking that first ride..... it takes about 20 miles or so..... sometimes we have to wait for the next ride..... the time when you let all the stresses leave your body.... the tenseness leaves your body.. your shoulders relax ... and you realize that it has gone, and you breath in that deep breath of the spring air....moist dirty smell still in the air... and some snow still on the sides of the road in the shade..... you feel the snow before you see it because the temperature drops, and you look in the shade and there it is..... melting into the ground, to bring the new growth.... so the next time you ride past here you will smell the wildflowers, and hardly remember the snow that use to be there.

So what I guess I'm trying to say, is that riding.... opens your senses........ Sight, Smell, Touch, hearing, and Taste.... (when you eat a bug, or dirt)......

So... the countdown begins..... 96 days.....

Things I need to do.

*Get Seat and other stuff from Jeremy
*Take Bike to Gowanda Harley for a Good Check up before the ride
*Look into GoPro Video Camera
*Get new Cell Phones.... (fingers crossed) Droid Bionic.... get released soon!
*Let Mike and Lu set the route etc.......

Grand Tetons

Yellowstone....