remember the sunday paper funnies n FAMILY CIRCUS?

[cowpuc]

Every since I was a little kid people always told me howmuch like joey from thefamily circus I am.. come on, admit it, you arent that much younger than me, you gotta remember him... he wasthe one that hismom would send out for the news paper and you would see a pic of him getting sidetracked, thru the mud puddle, pet the dog, chasethebug, and two hours later..

any way, we keep getting sidetracked on our route to THE DALLES and VENTUREWEST RALLY..

after a very exciting evening in and around Klamath we finally put the landing gear down about5 miles north of there.. found a gorgeous little pull off, small streem, no NO camplng signs whichmeant we could camp..

woke up this morning with ICE on thebike! It was cold! I set about building a fire while tippy slept inthe warm sleepning bags,,, such a fineman am I.. noticed tweeks had developed the ability to leak antifreeze aroud the front drain valve, no panic though,, none of my previous 1st gens could hold thier alchohol when freezing either.. soon as the girl warmed up the leak was healed. Look carefully at pic oneandyou can see her spot..

also noticed that mt. Shasta had a Whole lot more smow on her than she did the night before!,,

got side tracked again at newberry volcanic monument.. drove up to the cauldron, very steep but GORGEOUS VIEW! Surrounded by snow capped mountains, sharing life with my best friend tippy, smelling the good clean air fragranced by ponderosa pine,,,, nuff to make a grown man cry..

We are now about a 2hours from all your friends at THE DALLES,,,,,, UNLESS OF COURSE LITTLE JOEY HITS ANOTHER SIDE TRACK RABBIT TRAIL!

Ride em if ya got em

puc

[Flyinfool]

Now I am really wishing I could have stowed away with you. YOU FOUND SNOW IN JUNE!!!!

[Stealthblade]

I'm pissed as hell that I was 3 miles from you and got called back to work and never got to meet you. I will complete it one day, as soon as you come back home.

[bongobobny]

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