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Musings from “Life Is a Road” author–Daniel Meyer
Meet “The Angry Mountain”
Jul 15th
This…is the Angry Mountain…
So…a grilled cheese sandwich (a GOOD grilled cheese sandwich), topped with a 1/2 pound hamburger, topped by onion straw fries, lettuce, and tomato, topped off by ANOTHER good grilled cheese sandwich.
The Angry Mountain put up a fight…but it really never had a chance.
*burp*…it was good.
This sandwich is genius!
(If it had bacon somewhere in it…it would have been pure genius)
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
Stormrider…
Jul 14th
Yeah, about two minutes after I took this pic I hit this horrendous storm…75mph down the freeway…cold rain and windy…soaked in seconds…lightning hitting all around…thunder cracking so loud I could feel it. ‘Wrath of God-type stuff.’
100 miles of that. Then a break…just about enough to dry out…then I hit it again. I felt like I was going through a washing machine…miles of horrendous rains, then dry out. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. There was never any light rain. It was either on…or off.
Probably 400 miles of rain alltogether.
And then there’s me, laughing my ass off…passing the trucks…splashing in the rain…riding as fast as I could see and yelling to the storms, “Is that all you’ve got!?”
Just a fraction below out of control…for hundreds of miles.
So…I’m a little bit nuts. Maybe I knew that.
It rained so hard…that 100 miles after I left the storms…after a 100 miles of dry roads…I stopped for fuel and as I was dripping on the floor at the gas station the clerk asks, “What the hell happened to you?”
Made it here. Tire’s holding up. Having a good time. 300 Valkyries all in one place…more on the way. Some of the finest people you could ever meet riding them in. Social when I need it, but in minutes I can be alone, speeding down the open road.
Perfect.
Out on the road again. I’ve needed this. I might come back.
Y’all be safe…or at least fun.
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
If you left your Big-Ass-Metal-Pin-Thing on the Oklahoma Turnpike…
Jul 13th
If you left your Big-Ass-Metal-Pin-Thing on the Oklahoma Turnpike, me and my back tire would like a word or two with you…
Plugged it. Story there. Changed routes. Another story there. I made it (eventually) to Bellaire…which actually IS where I was aiming for…so I’m a plus in the column I guess.
Rode through some amazing (read, dangerous, nasty) weather though.
More later (laptop is sort of “crunchy” at the moment…so maybe no more later…till later…ya know?
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
I’ll see you on the road…
Jul 11th
Leaving VERY early in the AM for Bellaire, MI…gonna meet some friends there…
Going over the top, through Mackinaw City…
You know…just so I can sing, “Twelve hours out of Mackinaw City I stopped in a bar and had a brew…”
I figure that’s somewhere near the Iowa, Ill border…and that’s about 15 hours out of Dallas. Trying for at least that far tomorrow. I’ll definately need a brew about then…
Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan…yeah, it’s time to get out and run hard.
Oh, and I get to ride the Mackinac bridge. Love that thing. Here’s a pic from the last time I rode over it…that’s my friend James in front of me. I’m going solo this time.
It’s been a while, James. We need to change that…
Almost exactly 1500 miles, Dallas to Bellaire. The Valk’s ready to go. I suppose I ought to pack.
Maybe I’ll carry the laptop…it’s been having trouble getting started so it may be useless. Durn.
I’ll be gone a week…y’all be safe…if you see a fat guy riding hard on a Valkyrie, wave!
And I’ll see you on the road.
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
And then I got all *stabby*…
Jul 10th
Time for a new tire…a new skin. The front tire on The Dragon was somewhat past replacement time…and since I’m leaving for Inzane 10 in just a few hours (a multi-thousand mile trip)…it was time.
Oh, and I was slipping and sliding in the incredible downpour and flooded streets yesterday…a disconcerting experience with a thousand pounds of man and machine. When you start riding the Valk like a dirt bike you are in EXTREME conditions…water over the tops of my boots is pretty extreme.
And then I got all stabby…
Wanted to test the tire sealant I’m running…turns out it works. More info on that here if you are interested.
Anyway…new skin…and I’ll see you on the road!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
NOT the response I was hoping for…
Jun 30th
I’ve no serious illusions about my appeal to the fairer sex…over the years a lot of my hair has migrated off my head and down my back, a lot of the muscle has turned to jello and settled…well…everywhere actually…and I don’t (and have never) dressed like a gay, sparkley, gothy, bare-chested vampire.
None of this has ever mattered to the women in my life that are worth caring about and none of it has ever bothered me in the least.
Besides, I’ve had plenty of…well…flattering encounters (particularly riding) that “stroke my fragile male ego” enough anyway. Yeah. I’ve never had any trouble with the ladies.
Then there’s yesterday.
I pulled up in the left hand lane at a stoplight. There was a black pick-up in the left-turn lane beside me.
The window rolls down.
A cute Asian gal leans out the window and smiles uneasily at me.
I nod back.
She then barfs all over the side of the truck and pavement, pulls her head back inside, and rolls up the window.
That’s not really the reaction I was hoping for.
Sigh.
Heck, it might have even damaged my fragile male ego!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
Been Grumpy Lately…
Jun 25th
Been a bit grumpy lately…work things…wrecked car things…insurance company hassles.
Businesses just don’t seem to care, ya know? They’re generally nice and cheery, and almost gleefully apologize even whilst doing nothing to correct their problem or error…
And then they wonder…as the customers don’t come back and they slowly go out of business….what they did wrong.
Hi Enterprise Rental Cars! Happy with the ~$300 bucks you scammed me for? Hope so. That’s gonna have to hold you for a while. No more from me…or anybody that values my opinion (there are a few). Thanks for turning what had been a so-far pleasant experience into crap at the very last possible second.
But enough about that. I think I need to ride…I haven’t been on a long one in a while…bad stuff.
Just a few more days…got a few thousand miles to burn. Michigan is the target…probably the long way about.
Twelve hours out of Mackinaw City I stopped in a bar to have a brew…
I wonder where that bar is…
Thousands of miles.
I probably ought to get ready for it…
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
What? Ever?
Jun 21st
What Ever
Whatever
Somebody ordered this. Somebody paid for this. Somebody produced this. Somebody stuck it on the truck. Somebody looked at it and said, “That’s great! Thanks!”
I find this funny…or sad…I’m not currently sure which.
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
Inzane 10–National Valkyrie Rally
Jun 18th
I’ll be at Inzane 10, the VRCC’s national Valkyrie rally in Bellaire, Michigan, July 14-18, 2010.
I’ll be signing books, and once again, coodinating the Tech sessions. Come on out and see!
Inzane is always a great event and this one should be really special since it’s the tenth year.
The Saturday Tech session should be the best attended…we tear the back end off a Valkyrie and explore all the ins and outs.
All the details you’ll need are here!
See you there!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
Zoom zoom!
Jun 10th
I helped my friend Susanne pick up her new motorcycle at lunch today…
The new Shadow…
That’s a 2007 Honda Shadow 750. 3000-something miles. Red and flames. No scratches/dings etc. Very nice bike. She also did very well on the price.
The new Shadow with its new rider. Looks even better with the blonde on it, yes?
Gotta say…a lunch ride beats an actual lunch any day of the week.
Ride on Susanne!
Zoom Zoom!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer