Book of Leakes

Harley Ride 2009-Day 2
Line upon line, we left the hotel in the early morning dew! The humidity was high, which made it a little cold as we drove the line down the path of I-70 from Limon, CO to Blue Springs, MO (just outside of Kansas City, MO). The sun comes up in an eye piercing halo through the mist. It was a beautiful morning on the road! Chilly, but we dressed warm!

We found ourselves line dancing the dotted white line and the solid white line on our way to where we will finally crawl off the motorcycle and plop ourselves under the covers of a bed in a nice hotel. See things are good on the road:).

Hold the line to be safe and never surrender your position on the freeway, cause then you just have to pass the half asleep drivers again. Cruise control is the best thing ever invented.

Have you driven across the flats of Colorado, Kansas and Missouri. Beautiful sights of fence lines, electrical t-pole lines, corn rows, lines of rolled hay, pass a line of semi's, semi's pass us, just kidding, semi's were not passing our bike, railroad lines, silo's lined up along the railroad tracks, roads extending as far as the eye can see, windmills turning slowly in the breeze, tractors standing at attention, waiting for the next field to plow. There is order out here in these farms and in the world!

This adventure is a hard line we are taking. It takes a lot of endurance and will to stay awake, when you are on the back of a motorcycle, with the chilly humidity trying to enter the depths of your body and make you shiver, the only thing you hear is the hum of the engine and the wind blowing in your ears, the smell of fresh cut grass, or cut corn, or cut the cheese, or road kill, smell the dog food being made as we pass the dog food plant, a whiff of gas or fuel, sunflowers, moist leaves, turned dirt, it is the briefest scent and then gone with the wind. And the sights are amazing line upon line upon line upon line.

So this is my story line for today! All 599 miles of it!

Reflective ride notes: 599 miles. Drove through Colorado, Kansas and Missouri. Ate lunch at Bob's in Dorrance, KS. Bob bought an old gas station and has a sign out front saying burgers and beer. With his ice chests sitting in front of the picnic table. Next to the building is a Sno Shack. Bob keeps his wife in the Sno Shack, she fixed our lunch and never came out, while Bob chatted and drank a beer for all of us. It was awesome!
Ray's shifter fell off the bike and we had to to a minor repair. That's how we discovered Bob's. It happened in front of his place. Then the GPS fell off the bike between Kansas City and Blue Springs, MO. It is history! Road kill! Milo grain growing along the sides of the road, waiting for a freeze so they can harvest. Went to Liberty Jail in Liberty, MO. Fascinating! Ate at the waffle house (Yuck!)(Agreed upon by all three of us!)
4 gas stops. $2.57 was the cheapest gas and $2.70 was the most expensive.