Biker blog 10 Weekend camp out & vacation prep.
Mon. 8-17-98 Wallace, Id. / Pinehurst, Id. Campout prep.
I rode dh’s virago and charged up the battery in it, I rode out past the landfill and up on top, up the grade drove out to where there are farmers fields. Most of the crops are in now. It was good, a great ride. I got some errands done after that. I paid some bills and that was fun on the bike. I parked mine for the week it’s due for an oil change. Dh’s blue bike is nearly due too, I got oil for his. I will have to get oil for mine Fri. I suppose or when ever I’m back over town. There is a group campout this weekend at Wallace / Pinehurst at the KOA we are looking forward to it.
8-18-98 Errands
I rode dh’s virago to return a book and a tape to a friend and stopped by the library on the way home. That was fun fifty miles already this week.
8-22-98 prep.
I’ve spent the last three days getting ready for a group campout, there are two pot luck group meals. I made up a green salad and a potato salad and got a peach cobbler from a friend having a bake sale. I think they need to have their heads examined having a potluck on motor cycles but they did not ask me when they planned it!
I had to get another container to bring things in. The rectangle one fit the best for stacking. These containers need to have a good seal on them. It has to be the right size to fit in the trunk. We packed this morning dh washed the trailer last night.
Note: (The new kit for the trailer came this week and the cargo top carrier so we just have to put it together. Not in time for our vacation, a good winter project.)
We planned out our vacation itinerary last night and made our reservations. We are very excited! It will be in Western Montana and at KOA in their Kamping Kabins. We will have the two bikes and to trailer this year. 1,400 miles is the route WOW! We can’t wait we rare leaving on Friday =D Yippie!
Well back to the campout it seems like more work than the long trip with all the food preparations, ha! Got the old trailer and bikes loaded, they don’t leave until 11:00 so it’s too soon to load the ice and ice chest. I had a few minutes so I decided to jot down a few thoughts. I’m a little surprised that this journal is half full at this point, were riding more now!
The weather cooled off this week that has made life a lot more bearable! We even had some rain last night and lightening a thunder shower too. We are SO-O glad the day dawned bright and sunny it’s so beautiful, a hint of smoke in the air from grass fires and lightening strikes not far from here. We are taking two bikes and the trailer of camping gear to Pinehurst KOA 130 mi.
8-22-98 Sat. To Pinehurst KOA 160 mi.
We stopped at the white pine tree pull out for a sandwich lunch. There were four bikes with trailers, two without, one with a cargo trailer , fourteen people , one dog. Potluck supper lots of good food kabobs salads galore, cobbler and ice cream for dessert for dinner. It was great fun and visiting and an after dinner walk to see the dam & day-use and fishing areas. Later on we enjoyed an evening campfire and roasting marshmallows, and had s-mores . Four tent trailers one regular tent ours. It was great to see the stars and a beautiful clear night sky.
Sun. Tent Camping & St. Regis, Thompson falls, Lolo forest Ride
450 mi.
We woke up to a hazy day,with a few clouds moving in. Pancakes bacon eggs & ham; sausage for a lite breakfast not quite enough to go around of any one thing. Gals did most of the cooking with the exception of a couple of guys. Guys did the clean up and the others that did not help cooking it.
(I whined about having to cook on the weekend!)
As we packed up and discussed our ride for the day it began to sprinkle and cool off. We dropped the trailers off in town and my bike, it needed an oil change went to St. Regis and Thompson falls Montana through the Lolo Natl. forest on a loop. It was a beautiful drive.
Wet and cool and some rain and wet roads part of the day. Then back to pick up my bike and the tent trailers and cargo trailers. And we came home the scenic route. It was a long day. Every one was exhausted cranky, cold, and tired. They had not slept that well. (We stopped for a nice fun hot lunch & it poured down rain. Rode in rain or wet road off and on for 40 miles.)
On the way home further south we traveled the drier and warmer we / it got. Made a scenic route detour around some construction, and saw a deer beside the road. Stopped for fuel and a key I’d lost out of my chaps when I went to the restroom on the way up. =D Yea that had it! Had a good trip he rest of the way home. We had to hustle to stay on the out skirts of the storm that was passing through over head. My headlight quit working! =(
The highlight of the day was a doll one of the guys had borrowed and used as a prop. And took photos of at various points along the was (the doll was from his sisters house.) He returned the doll and will make up an album for a Christmas gift. (Some kind of family joke.)
We saw a museum at an old mining town, we got to travel on a new road that was awesome and fun. We were in three states that day. After the 105* weather we had been having the rain and cool was a shot and we were not used to it yet! No one is ready for fall yet! We traveled approximately 450 iron butt miles; we dh & I do not usually travel that many on the weekend in one day because he drives truck during the week and he likes to enjoy doing a more relaxed pace on the weekends. He suggested next time 3 days and the lop in Mt. on Sat. And then ride home on Sun. to break up the mileage.
One think I really loved was seeing the wildflowers at the campground that were new and in bloom, it was really special to see them lavender and pink blue and red other flowers were blooming too bachelor buttons and poppies.
One joke I heard was really cute: when the fire alarm went off a five year old did not miss a beat he yelled “Dinner is ready!”
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